Otto Penzler

Collects the editor's all-time favorite holiday crime stories, including tales by such authors as Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Paretsky, Peter Lovesey, O. Henry, Damon Runyon, Agatha Christie, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Casie Blevins

DNF after three stories. It's just not my jam. I'm not a fan of the story told as a story to other characters who just serve as 'audience' for the story that is supposed to matter to us, the real audience of the story. Why did writers back then need an excuse to tell a story? Just tell it already! Skip the intermediary. To me, these types of stories don't age well. I know they were all the rage for decades. I just find them eye rollingly annoying.

Christmas whodunits starring Poirot, Marple, Rebus, More, Rumpole, Sherlock, Cadfael and many many more. Festive felonies, unscrupulous santas, deadly puddings, and misdemeanors under the mistletoe... From Victorian detective stories to modern mysteries, police procedurals to pulp fiction, comic gems to cozy crime, there's something for every festive mood in this must-read collection starring sixty of the world's favourite detectives. Featuring an all-star cast of authors including Isaac Asimov, Mary Higgins Clark, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Colin Dexter, Thomas Hardy, H.R.F. Keating, Ngaio Marsh, John Mortimer, Ellis Peters, Sara Paretsky, Robert Louis Stevenson and - of course - Agatha Christie, this is the biggest and best Christmas crime anthology in print today.

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

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