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Christmas Crimes

by Ann Cleeves

Christmas shopping isn't the only thing that's murder this year! It's homicide for the holidays as Signet delivers this delightful mystery anthology. So let slay bells ring and cyanide-spiked eggnog flow on this nasty Noel--and what is that strange ticking sound coming from that beautifully wrapped gift? Authors include Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Georges Simenon, and nine others. Original. Winter's tale / Ann Cleeves -- To wake the dead / John Dickson Carr -- Theft of Santa's beard / Edward D. Hoch -- Believing in Santa / Ron Goulart -- Case is altered / Margery Allingham -- Maigret's Christmas / Georges Simenon -- Appalachian blackmail / Jacqueline Vivelo -- Grist for the mills of Christmas / James Powell -- Inspector Tierce and the Christmas visits / Jeffry Scott -- Pass the parcel / Peter Lovesey -- Never two without three; or, a Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie -- Ghost of Christmas past / Robert Richardson. Ellery Queen's mystery magazine Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazine Edited by Cynthia Manson.

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