Christmas shopping isn't the only thing that's murder this year! It's homicide for the holidays as Signet delivers this delightful mystery anthology. So let slay bells ring and cyanide-spiked eggnog flow on this nasty Noel--and what is that strange ticking sound coming from that beautifully wrapped gift? Authors include Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Georges Simenon, and nine others. Original.

Winter's tale / Ann Cleeves --
To wake the dead / John Dickson Carr --
Theft of Santa's beard / Edward D. Hoch --
Believing in Santa / Ron Goulart --
Case is altered / Margery Allingham --
Maigret's Christmas / Georges Simenon --
Appalachian blackmail / Jacqueline Vivelo --
Grist for the mills of Christmas / James Powell --
Inspector Tierce and the Christmas visits / Jeffry Scott --
Pass the parcel / Peter Lovesey --
Never two without three; or, a Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie --
Ghost of Christmas past / Robert Richardson.

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Edited by Cynthia Manson.