Murder Most Merry ed. Abigail Browning (Gramercy, July 2002, 0-517-22119-5, $10.99, 374pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 32 Christmas crime stories.
- viii · Introduction · Abigail Browning · in
- 1 · A Winter’s Tale [Inspector Stephen Ramsay] · Ann Cleeves · ss Northern Blood ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury Press, 1992
- 11 · Grist for the Mills of Christmas [Christmas Stories] · James Powell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1994
- 20 · As Dark as Christmas Gets [Chip Harrison; Leo Haig] · Lawrence Block · nv The Mysterious Bookshop, 1997; first published as a limited edition booklet for customers of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York.
- 40 · Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas [Horace Rumpole] · John Mortimer · ss Regina v Rumpole by John Mortimer, Allen Lane, 1981
- 50 · Dead on Christmas Street · John D. MacDonald · nv Collier’s December 20 1952
- 63 · Miss Crindle and Father Christmas [Miss Crindle] · Malcolm Gray · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1990
- 75 · Mystery for Christmas · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1943
- 88 · The Case Is Altered [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine December 1938
- 101 · Christmas Cop · Thomas Larry Adcock · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1986
- 111 · The Theft of the Christmas Stocking [Nick Velvet] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1989
- 125 · The Christmas Bear · Herbert Resnicow · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1990
- 136 · The Shape of the Nightmare · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1 1982
- 150 · Christmas Gift · Robert Turner · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1957
- 156 · Santa’s Way [Christmas Stories] · James Powell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1991
- 163 · I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus · George Baxt · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1990
- 170 · Supper with Miss Shivers · Peter Lovesey · ss Woman’s Own December 24 1990, as “The Christmas Present”
- 178 · Appalachian Blackmail · Jacqueline Vivelo · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1994
- 185 · On Christmas Day in the Morning [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Evening Standard December 23 1950
- 193 · Santa Claus Beat · Rex Stout · ss What’s New December 1953, as “Tough Cop’s Gift”
- 197 · White Like the Snow · Dan Stumpf · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1999
- 206 · Rumpole and the Chambers Party [Horace Rumpole] · John Mortimer · ss Rumpole and the Age of Miracles by John Mortimer, Penguin, 1988
- 211 · The Spy and the Christmas Cipher [Jeffrey Rand] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1990
- 224 · Inspector Tierce and the Christmas Visits · Jeffry Scott · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1995
- 241 · Christmas Party · Martin Werner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1991
- 248 · The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine January 1892
- 265 · The Embezzler’s Christmas Present · Ennis Duling · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1982
- 271 · Believing in Santa · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1994
- 281 · Pass the Parcel · Peter Lovesey · ss Midwinter Mysteries 3 ed. Hilary Hale, Little, Brown UK, 1993
- 294 · The Theft of Santa’s Beard [Nick Velvet] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1992
- 309 · A Matter of Life and Death · Georges Simenon; translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #98, January 1952
translated from the French (“Sept Petites Croix dans un Carnet”, Un Noël de Maigret, Presses de la Cité, 1951).
- 358 · Murder Under the Mistletoe [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Sunday Telegraph December 24 1961, as “The Snapdragon and the C.I.D.”
- 367 · Who Killed Father Christmas? · Patricia Moyes · ss Who Done It? ed. Alice Laurance & Isaac Asimov, Houghton Mifflin, 1980
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