Christmas Mysteries
Top 10 Christmas Mysteries
: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #7), Tied Up In Tinsel, The Twelve Clues of Christmas, The Sittaford Mystery, E is for Evidence, Corpus Christmas, Murder for Christmas, The Twelve Deaths Of Christmas, The Queene's Christmas, A Rumpole Christmas
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #7)
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 8124200238 |
In The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Conan Doyle offers up a tale of goodwill that has a darker flipside.
The goodwill sees Sherlock Holmes trying to return a hat and goose lost by someone on Christmas Day, but the story then deals with the theft of a precious stone, the Blue Carbuncle.
The...
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0006512275 |
A Christmas pageant turns unholy.
Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint the man's portrait and, while she's there, view the Druid Christmas pageant. Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities-- until one of the pageant's...
The Twelve Clues of Christmas
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 0425252787 |
She may be thirty-fifth in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the New Year—before a Christmas killer wrings another neck…
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending a feliz navidad...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007136846 |
Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen...
| Author | Sue Grafton |
| ISBN | 0312939035 |
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I’m female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I’m perfectly content to do what I do . . .
It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars.
The...
| 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 | Thomas Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0445406755 |
Although the themes of Christmas and crime might seem to be diametrically opposed, the Yuletide season has always brought out the best in mystery writers, who find endless inspiration in the trappings of the holiday. A stocking stuffed with 26 entertaining stories, this anthology samples the delicious...
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 | Karen Harper |
| ISBN | 0312994729 |
The Queene's Christmas draws readers into the magnificent realm of Elizabeth Tudor and the magic of her Court at Yuletide, circa 1564. But in the intoxicating sixth novel of Karen Harper's celebrated Elizabeth I series, the Twelve Days of Christmas are murderously interrupted when the Dresser of...
| 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 | Leslie Meier |
| ISBN | 0758203373 |
"As if baking Christmas cookies, knitting a jumper for her husband’s gift, and making her daughter’s angel costume for the church pageant weren’t enough things for Lucy Stone’s busy Christmas schedule, she’s also working the night shift at a mail-order company. But when she discovers...
| 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 | C.C. Benison |
| ISBN | 0553574779 |
Compelling contemporary mystery by local Canadian author, CC Benison.
Individual characterization and descriptive settings added to my interest in the action of the story. British euphemisms authenticate the dialogue adding to the humour of the scenarios and personalizing the characters....
| Author | Margaret Frazer |
| ISBN | 0425143899 |
Sister Frevisse is sinfully good at discerning the mysteries of the soul--and solving the crimes of the human heart in this charming series.
It's Christmastime, and the sisters of St. Frideswide cannot turn away travellers, even the players knocking at the nunnery door. But along with the...
| 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,...
The Chocolate Snowman Murders
| Author | JoAnna Carl |
| ISBN | 0451225066 |
The much anticipated Winter Arts festival is here, and as treasurer of Winterfest, Lee is up to her elbows in mix-ups behind the scenes. When the art show's guest juror shows up drunk, Lee lets him sleep it off, only to find out later that someone's put the visiting dignitary into a permanent state of repose.
Lee...
