Crime at Christmas

✍ Scribed by Adrian, Jack (editor)

• Book ID: 108139691
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1853360317

✦ Synopsis

CONTENTS

Introduction

NICHOLAS BLAKE A Problem In White

JOHN DICKSON CARR Detective's Day Off

JAMES MELVILLE Santa-San Solves It

'PETER TODD' Herlock Sholmes's Christmas Case

EDWARD D. HOCH The Three Travellers

PETER LOVESEY Murder In Store

ETHEL LINA WHITE Waxworks

JOSEPH COMMINGS Serenade to a Killer

EDGAR WALLACE Stuffing

BILL PRONZINI No Room at the Inn

CYRIL HARE Sister Bessie

MARGERY ALLINGHAM Murder Under the Mistletoe

WILL SCOTT Christmas Train

ROBERT ARTHUR A Present for Christmas

JULIAN SYMONS The Santa Claus Club

'HERLOCK SHOLMES' The Secret in the Pudding Bag

ANTHONY BURGESS The Great Christmas Train Mystery

JAMES POWELL The Plot Against Santa Claus

AFTERWORD Biggles' Apple Snowballs

Acknowledgements

Sources

Solution to A Problem in White

Crime at Christmas, a Box of Murderous (and other) Delights, to take your mind off the rigours of the festive season. Here are eighteen short stories and no old sweats-absolutely no stories which, however excellent, you must have read a score or more times before. Most have never appeared in book-form and two, by British crime writer James Melville and American suspense-writer Bill Pronzini, have been written especially for this anthology.

There are tales of tension, tales of brain-racking ingenuity; grim tales, comic tales, atmospheric tales, undeniably acidic tales, tales with twists to their tails. There is a puzzle-story to ponder over, perhaps while cracking nuts beside the fire. There's even a recipe (and a very good one too; and from a surprising source). And all illustrated in fine style by Brian Denington.

Crime at Christmas, a Box of Murderous (and other) Delights, to take your mind off the rigours of the festive season. Here are eighteen short stories and no old sweats-absolutely no stories which, however excellent, you must have read a score or more times before. Most have never appeared in book-form and two, by British crime writer James Melville and American suspense-writer Bill Pronzini, have been written especially for this anthology.

There are tales of tension, tales of brain-racking ingenuity; grim tales, comic tales, atmospheric tales, undeniably acidic tales, tales with twists to their tails. There is a puzzle-story to ponder over, perhaps while cracking nuts beside the fire. There's even a recipe (and a very good one too; and from a surprising source). And all illustrated in fine style by Brian Denington.

CONTENTS

Introduction

NICHOLAS BLAKE A Problem In White

JOHN DICKSON CARR Detective's Day Off

JAMES MELVILLE Santa-San Solves It

'PETER TODD' Herlock Sholmes's Christmas Case

EDWARD D. HOCH The Three Travellers

PETER LOVESEY Murder In Store

ETHEL LINA WHITE Waxworks

JOSEPH COMMINGS Serenade to a Killer

EDGAR WALLACE Stuffing

BILL PRONZINI No Room at the Inn

CYRIL HARE Sister Bessie

MARGERY ALLINGHAM Murder Under the Mistletoe

WILL SCOTT Christmas Train

ROBERT ARTHUR A Present for Christmas

JULIAN SYMONS The Santa Claus Club

'HERLOCK SHOLMES' The Secret in the Pudding Bag

ANTHONY BURGESS The Great Christmas Train Mystery

JAMES POWELL The Plot Against Santa Claus

AFTERWORD Biggles' Apple Snowballs

Acknowledgements

Sources

Solution to A Problem in White