Murder for Christmas, Various Authors (Hardcover) - USED

Condition: Good to fair, wear mostly on dustjacket

Summary:

Celebrate the holidays with tales of murder, deceit, shoplifting, kidnapping, and murder 'round the wassail bowl! Illustrated with wonderfully malevolent black and white line drawings and cartoons by the ghoulish Gahan Wilson, this collection of holiday mysteries will chill the cockles of a crime lover's heart.

Introduction / Thomas F. Godfrey --
Back for Christmas / John Collier --
Mr. Big / Woody Allen --
The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The adventure of the Christmas pudding / Agatha Christie --
Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon --
Cambric tea / Marjorie Bowen --
Death on Christmas eve / Stanley Ellin --
A Christmas tragedy / Baroness Orczy --
Silent night / Baynard Kendrick --
The stolen Christmas box / Lillian de la Torre --
A chaparral Christmas gift / O. Henry --
Dealth on the air / Ngaio Marsh --
Inspector Ghote and the miracle baby / H.R.F. Keating --
Maigret's Christmas / Georges Simenon --
To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens --
The adventure of the Dauphin's doll / Ellery Queen --
Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers --
Blind man's hood / Carter Dickson --
Christmas is for cops / Edward D. Hoch --
The thieves who couldn't help sneezing / Thomas Hardy --
The case is altered / Margery Allingham --
Christmas party / Rex Stout --
The flying stars / G.K. Chesterton --
Mother's milk / James Mines --
Ring out, wild bells / D.B. Wyndham Lewis