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The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

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The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Cat Gould, Matthew Lloyd Davies
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Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries.

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects more than 50 of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories - many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else. From classic Victorian tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy, to contemporary stories by Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain, this collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant.

Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark and Isaac Asimov; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you're in the mood for-suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural - can be found in this book.

©2013 Otto Penzler (introduction and compilation) (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Holidays Literary Fiction Mystery Short Stories Traditional Detectives Winter Christmas Exciting Witty Tearjerking Holiday Mystery
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Delightful story selections including some authors I didn’t know. Narration was great.
Get a cup of cocoa and settle in.

Perfect for Christmas

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all my faves. made me want to go back and read the authors again. Interesting!

All my favs!

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This is a great mix of contemporary and those short stories from the past! I recommend it for the holidays!

Excellent mix of stories

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Not all 100 stories that appear in the hard bound book are read in the Audible version. Including “Sister Bessie,” “A Christmas Tragedy”.

Not Complete Book

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This is only a little over half of the stories in the printed Anthology - many of the titles/authors mentioned in the introduction are NOT included in the audiobook. Don't purchase this based on the sample provided either, the narration is very un-even (some readers are MUCH better than the others. Its the same with the audio quality.

NOT UNABRIDGED

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