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Murder under the mistletoe

by Cynthia Manson

Just when you thought it was safe to gather 'round the eggnog comes this frightfully festive collection of Christmas whodunits by 15 masters of mystery selected from the pages of *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazin*e and *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine*. In "Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas," John Mortimer's irascible barrister reaches a new verdict on Christmas spirits and the nature of evil. Death comes gift-wrapped in a mysterious alibi for Margery Allingham's Campion, detective extraordinaire, in "Murder Under the Mistletoe." And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of a burglar most fowl when he investigates the disappearance of a priceless Christmas goose in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle." And twelve other tales of holiday mystery that guarantee you'll have yourself a scary little Christmas.

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