Crime for christmas

Description:

Though Christmas is a time of peace and joy, there can be a dark side to holiday cheer -- murder and mayhem may lurk within the merriment. This tempting collection serves up Christmas crime stories from some of the best mystery writers of the past 150 years: Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.C. Bailey, and Thomas Hardy. The trinity cat / Ellis Peters A happy solution / Raymund Allen [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) / Arthur Conan Doyle An upright woman / H.R.F. Keating A book for Christmas / Christopher Hallam A pair of muddy shoes / Lennox Robinson The unknown murder / H.C. Bailey The buoy that did not light / Edgar Wallace A Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie The ghost's touch / Fergus Hume The grotto / Pamela Sewell The show must not go on / David G. Rowlands Red lily / Dick Donovan The black bag left on a doorstep / C.L. Pirkis The grave by the handpost / Thomas Hardy Mr Wray's cash box / Wilkie Collins Solution of the endgame in 'A happy solution.'

subjects: Christmas stories,  Short stories,  Detective and mystery fiction,  Mystery fiction,  fiction,  Christmas fiction,  carbuncles,  Christmas dinners,  commissionaires,  Private investigators,  Crime,  English Detective and mystery stories,  Detective and mystery stories,  English Christmas stories,  Crime, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general

People: Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Baker Street Irregulars,  Countess of Morcar,  John Horner,  Peterson,  Henry Baker,  Breckinridge,  Mrs Oakshott,  Catherine Cusack,  James Ryder,  Mrs. Oakshott

Places: England,  London,  221B Baker Street,  Alpha Inn,  British Museum,  Covent Garden,  Brixton