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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
An anthology of 10 stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
Contents:
- Introduction by Cynthia Manson (editor)
- The Theft of the Christmas Stocking by Edward D. Hoch
- ’Twixt the Cup and the Lip by Julian Symons
- Death in the Christmas Hour by James Powell
- Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by Paul Auster
- Christmas Gift by Robert Turner
- Rumpole and the Chambers Party by John Mortimer (from Rumpole and the Age of Miracles)
- Murder at Christmas by C. M. Chan
- Father Crumlish Celebrates Christmas by Alice Scanlan Reach
- A Matter of Life and Death by Georges Simenon; trans. by Geoffrey Sainsbury
- Miss Crindle and Father Christmas by Malcolm Gray
Selected stories from this volume were reprinted in the editor's 1994 anthology, Merry Murder.
Original title: Murder at Christmas and Other Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Crime/Caper
The following works are contained within this one:
Theft of the Christmas Stocking, the (1989) [Short Story]
Author: Edward D. Hoch
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990) [Novella]
Author: Paul Auster
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