Festive felonies, unscrupulous santas, deadly puddings, and misdemeanors under the mistletoe...
From Victorian detective stories to modern mysteries, police procedurals to pulp fiction, comic gems to cozy crime, there's something for every festive mood in this must-read collection starring sixty of the world's favourite detectives.
Featuring an all-star cast of authors including Isaac Asimov, Mary Higgins Clark, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Colin Dexter, Thomas Hardy, H.R.F. Keating, Ngaio Marsh, John Mortimer, Ellis Peters, Sara Paretsky, Robert Louis Stevenson and – of course – Agatha Christie, this is the biggest and best Christmas crime anthology in print today.
I meant to write this up back on Christmas Eve, but this year the holidays have gotten completely away from me, which is sort of unexpected only because it's one of the less frantic holiday seasons MT and I have had.
Anyway - I've only read 6 of the stories so far, and 5 of them I've read previously in another anthology, but they've all been excellent, save 1 (A Visit From St. Nicholas by Ron Goulart; not badly written, I guess, but it didn't really feel like much of a story, either).
If you're into short stories and holiday reading, I'd recommend this one as a very worthwhile investment.
Reading updates
-
Started reading
-
24 December, 2017:
Finished reading
-
24 December, 2017:
Reviewed