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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
Edited by Cynthia Manson, this book is made up of selected stories from Mystery for Christmas (1990), Murder at Christmas (1991), and Murder Under the Mistletoe(1992). Contents:
- Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas by John Mortimer
- Supper with Miss Shivers by Peter Lovesey
- A Matter of Life and Death by Georges Simenon
- I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus by George Baxt
- Dead on Christmas Street by John D. MacDonald
- Mystery for Christmas by Anthony Boucher
- On Christmas Day in the Morning by Margery Allingham
- Santa Claus Beat by Rex Stout
- Twixt the Cup and the Lip by Julian Symons
- The Christmas Bear by Herbert Resnicow
- Who Killed Father Christmas? by Patricia Moyes
- Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster
- Murder at Christmas by C.M. Chan
- Father Crumlish Celebrates Christmas by Alice Scanlan Reach
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Plot Against Santa Claus by James Powell
- Christmas Cop by Thomas Larry Adcock
- But Once a Year... Thank God by Joyce Porter
- Christmas Party by Martin Werner
- Kelso's Christmas by Malcolm McClintick
- The Spy and the Christmas Cipher by Edward D. Hoch
- The Carol Singers by Josephine Bell
Original title: Merry Murder
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Suspense
The following works are contained within this one:
Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, the (1891) [Short Story]
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Spy and the Christmas Cipher, the (1990) [Short Story]
Author: Edward D. Hoch
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990) [Novella]
Author: Paul Auster
Supper with Miss Shivers (1991) [Short Story]
Author: Peter Lovesey
Notes:
- This book sometimes lists as In Merry Murder, probably from a bookseller's typo.
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