The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries | edited Otto Penzler

A Traditional Little Christmas

• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | Agatha Christie (1923)
• Gold, Frankencense and Murder | Catherine Aird (1995)
• Boxing Unclever | Robert Barnard (1995)
• The Proof of the Pudding | Peter Lovesey (1995)
• The Adventure of the Dauphin’s Doll | Ellery Queen (1948)
• Morse’s Greatest Mystery | Colin Dexter (1993)
• More Than Flesh and Blood | Susan Moody (1995)
• The Butler’s Christmas Eve | Mary Roberts Rinehart (1944)
• The Trinity Cat | Ellis Peters (1976)

A Funny Little Christmas

• The Burglar and the Whatsit | Donald E. Westlake (1996)
• Dancing Don’s Christmas | Damon Runyon (1932)
• A Visit From Saint Nicholas | Ron Goulart (1993)
• The Thieves Who Couldn’t Help Sneezing | Thomas Hardy (1877)
• Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas | John Mortimer (1992)
• A Reversible Santa Claus | Meredith Nicholson (1917)

A Sherlockian Little Christmas

• A Scandal in Winter | Gillian Linscott (1996)
• The Christmas Client | Edward D. Hoch (1996)
• The Secret in the Pudding Bag (1924) & Herlock Sholme’s Christmas Case | Peter Todd (1916)
• Christmas Eve | S. C. Roberts (1936)
• The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle | Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

A Pulpy Little Christmas

• Dead on Christmas Street | John D. MacDonald (1952)
• Crime’s Christmas Carols | Norvell Page (1939)
• Serenade to a Killer | Joseph Commings (1957)

An Uncanny Little Christmas

• The Haunted Crescent | Peter Lovesey (1989)
• A Christmas in Camp | Edmund Cox (1911)
• The Christmas Bogey | Pat Frank (1957)
• The Killer Christian | Andrew Klavan (2007)
• The Ghost’s Touch | Fergus Hume (1906)
• A Wreath For Marley | Max Allen Collins (1995)

A Scary Little Christmas

• The Carol Singers | Josephine Bell (1992)
• Waxworks | Ethel Lina White (1930)
• Cambric Tea | Marjorie Bowen (1929)
• The 74th Tale | Jonathan Santlofer (2008)
• The Uninnocent | Bradford Morrow (2011)
• Blue Christmas | Peter Robinson (2005)

A Surprising Little Christmas

• Noel, Noel | Barry Perowne (1992)
• Death on Christmas Eve | Stanley Ellin (1956)
• The Chinese Apple | Joseph Shearing (1949)

A Modern Little Christmas

• And All Through the House | Ed McBain (1984)
• An Early Christmas | Doug Allyn (2009)
• The Live Tree | John Lutz (1989)
• Three-Dot Po | Sara Paretsky (1984)
• Mad Dog | Dick Lochte (1993)

A Puzzling Little Christmas

• Sister Bessie | Cyril Hare (1948)
• That’s the Ticket | Mary Higgins Clark (1989)
• Death on the Air | Ngaio Marsh (1934)
• The Thirteenth Day of Christmas | Isaac Asimov (1977)
• The Christmas Kitten | Ed Gorman (1997)
• The Santa Claus Club | Julian Symons (1960)

A Classic Little Christmas

• The Flying Stars | G. K. Chesterton (1911)
• Christmas Party | Rex Stout (1957)
• The Raffles Relics | E. W. Hornung (1905)
• The Price of Light | Ellis Peters (1979)
• A Present For Santa Sahib | H. R. F. Keating (1989)
• The Christmas Train | Will Scott (1933)
• Markheim | Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
• A Chaparral Christmas Gift | O. Henry (1903)
• The Chopham Affair | Edgar Wallace (1934)
• A Christmas Tragedy | Agatha Christie (1932)