Anthology of twelve mystery stories with a holiday setting, all of them from Ellery Queen’s or Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Contents:

• Introduction by Cynthia Manson (editor)
• The Christmas Bear by Herbert Resnicow
• Christmas Cop by Thomas Adcock
• Dead on Christmas Street by John D. MacDonald (originally ran in Colliers, Dec 20 1952)
• I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus by George Baxt
• Kelso’s Christmas by Malcolm McClintick
• The Marley Case by Linda Haldeman
• Mystery for Christmas by Anthony Boucher
• On Christmas Day in the Morning by Margery Allingham (orig. ran in London Evening Standard, Dec 23 1950)
• The Plot Against Santa Claus by James Powell
• Santa Claus Beat Rex Stout (orig. ran in What’s New, Dec 1953, as "Tough Cop’s Gift")
• Whatever Became of Ebenezer Scrooge? by Tom Tolnay
• Who Killed Father Christmas? by Patricia Moyes (orig. pub. in Who Done It?, 1980)

Selected stories from this volume were reprinted in the editor's 1994 anthology, Merry Murder.