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    The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
    The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
    The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
    Audiobook32 hours

    The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

    Written by Otto Penzler

    Narrated by Cat Gould and Matthew Lloyd Davies

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    About this audiobook

    Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries.



    Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler collects more than fifty 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateFeb 25, 2020
    ISBN9781684576869
    The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
    Author

    Otto Penzler

    OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.

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