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A mixed bag, but totally enjoyable. It made me nostalgic for my mispent youth when I read this sort of mystery by the bookful.
The stories themselves are really quite good, for the most part. One or two are more modern and thus, somehow, stamped with an air of smarmy self-amazement. I think this is, in part, due to the unfortunate air the editors brought to the introductions before some of the stories. In a particularly telling moment, they complain that Cristie doesn't know how to describe people under thirty. It sounds as if she is accused of being out of touch. Yet within the pages of her included story are several y...
The Holliday season is usually about celebrating your favorite traditions and spending time with family, not dealing with cases of murder. However the poor families in the book, Murder For Christmas by Thomas Godfrey, have to deal with horrendous crimes during the holiday season. This book is set during a time when there was not as many technological advancements, so the crimes are solved the old fashion way. The characters look for clues and consider every possible motive. This mystery novel co...
A delightful collection of story stories all revolving around the Christmas holiday. A sort of charcuterie for the literary senses. As expected, some of the stories are better than others. Overall, a fun book to read. As a note, many of the stories in volume two are duplicates from the first volume.
On Friday 20th December, a week to the day since six year old Ronnie Connatser had been kidnapped from Miss Murray's School, Arnold Cameron, Special Agent in Charge of the New York F.B.I., telephoned early in the morning to make an appointment with Capt. Duncan Maclain.
Popsugar: a book with an ugly cover.
Anthology of short stories set at Christmas time:This 1982 book contains over fifteen short stories from authors as diverse as Chekhov and R. Louis Stevenson to Damon Runyan and O. Henry through Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, Mary R. Rinehart and Rex Stout. All are somewhat holiday related and range from charming and sweet to silly to classic whodunits. Gahan Wilson adds his usual macabre touch to black and white cartoons with roughly Christmas themes.murdered.
This is kind of hard to rate because it's a collection of short stories. Also because some were great and others weren't. It was a nice collection of stories and no two are alike. Some of them are kind of boring but most were either funny, thrilling, or just plain weird. I don't think I have a favorite one but I really like "Back for Christmas" by John Collier. Its really weird, which I loved. But then again all of them are about murder or crime and those two things are always weird.
