Murder for Christmas
10 best books like Murder for Christmas (Thomas Godfrey): The Twelve Deaths Of Christmas, Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner, Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries, The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir, Corpus Christmas, A Rumpole Christmas, A Stillness in Bethlehem, Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop, Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries
The Twelve Deaths Of Christmas
| Author | Marian Babson |
| ISBN | 0312960395 |
This was an interesting story. Early on, I thought I had it all figured out...by the middle, I (again!) had it all figured out but with a different suspect (lol)...and at the end, I found out who the real killer was (neither of my suspects btw).
The writing style was interesting and definitely...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0517309769 |
Perfect collection for any Agatha Christie newbie! Avenel Books have put together the very best Hercule Poirot stories in one collection. The stories found here are "Death on the Nile", "Murder on the Orient Express", "The ABC Murders", "Cards on the Table", and "Thirteen at Dinner". The only title...
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television becomes tiresome,...
The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir
| Author | Ken Harmon |
| ISBN | 0525951954 |
A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir, The Fat Man makes the perfect gift for the literary-minded.
A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December.
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| Author | Margaret Maron |
| ISBN | 0446618330 |
BOTTOM LINE: Murder at a stuffy museum brings Lt. Sigrid Harald into rather more contact with artsy-fartsy types than she really wants, but she does solve the case and learn to work better/easier with her subordinates, never an easy thing for her. Maron still shows Sigrid growing and very slowly changing,...
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0670021350 |
The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories, just in time for the holidays. A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories - never before published in book form - depicting the Old Bailey hack at his lovable best. In 'Rumpole and Father Christmas' the English barrister encounters...
| Author | Jane Haddam |
| ISBN | 0553293907 |
It's December in Bethlehem, Vermont. Christmas is coming, but there's no deep and dreamless sleep for this little town. Instead, everyone's getting ready to stage the annual Christmas pageant and Nativity play - a weeks-long celebration that brings tourists from around the world who spend enough...
| Author | Otto Penzler |
| ISBN | 1593156170 |
Each year, for the past seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now,...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060084618 |
A sure treat for Dorothy L. Sayers's legions of fans, The Complete Stories is the ultimate collectible. This delightfully gruesome collection captures all of Sayers's short stories in one volume. The tantalizing puzzles and baffling cases will provide mystery lovers with a sumptuous feast of criminal...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 1402711018 |
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
| Author | Charlotte MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0445409207 |
I received an e-ARC of this collection of short stories through NetGalley and Open Road Integrated Media.
Sometimes it's just relaxing to settle down with a book that has one purpose, in this case that purpose would be to read a collection of short stories based on the Yuletide season. This collection...
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
| ISBN | 0140088156 |
Dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter … just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories...
| Author | Margery Allingham |
| ISBN | 0380714485 |
A jilted Japanese suitor who plots an exotic and melodic revenge… A phony fortuneteller whose bogus predictions put him behind his own crystal eight-ball… A diabolical cosmetician determined to prove that beauty is skin deep but evil goes to the bone… Now gentleman detective Albert Campion...
| Author | Angela Thirkell |
| ISBN | 0349004307 |
Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the inimitable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to the pantomime, escapades on ice, a Christmas Day of gifts gone wrong, and an electrifying afternoon for Laura Morland and friends at Low Rising, not...
The Christmas Night Murder
| Author | Lee Harris |
| ISBN | 0449149226 |
A Christine Bennett Mystery.
A cheerful Christmas party at St. Stephen's Convent is spoiled when the guest of honor, Father Hudson McCormick, fails to arrive. Worried Sister Joseph asks Christine Bennet, a former St. Stephen' s nun, to investigate. Now every signpost points Christine into the...
| Author | Mikel Andrews |
| ISBN | 0991215869 |
This is a collection of 10 short stories with different authors about kickass heroines and their beastly sidekicks. Some of the stories were a little lenient with the definition of beastly sidekicks. Like most collections, i really enjoyed some stories and others not as much. I definitely preferred...
| Author | Ellery Queen |
| ISBN | 0881843989 |
The premise is fantastic: Ellery Queen couldn't solve a mystery for almost thirty years, although he knew the answer all along.
The writing is a joy, as always. Ellery is charming and hilarious. When told a man kissed his fiancee to avoid answering her pointed question, he says, "At the risk...
Three Aces: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 9997532031 |
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...
Some Days You Get the Bear
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0380715686 |
The bear is on the prowl in many different guises. He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare. Or maybe he's beautiful, lethal woman in a blood-red scarf. So beware of the this huge,...
| Author | Kate Kingsbury |
| ISBN | 0425236900 |
In this Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery, guests and staff alike are coming together under the kissing bough--only to fall victim to a cold-blooded killer...
At the Pennyfoot Hotel, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily's dear friend Madeline...
