Overview

Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so at odds with violence, crime, and even murder. This delightful seasonal anthology includes holiday tales from some of the greatest Golden Age mystery authors. It offers such giants of the genre as Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John D. MacDonald, and John Dickson Carr while introducing lesser-known writers such as Norvell Page, Meredith Nicholson, and Pat Frank. With chronicles that range from truly chilling to heart-warming to hilarious to puzzling, this volume highlights a variety of subjects and styles as each author brings their own approach to the most wonderful time of the year. Featuring fourteen outstanding stories of Yuletide mystery selected and introduced by Edgar-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, Golden Age Christmas Mysteries offers hours of cozy reading, best enjoyed on a cold, snowy night, in a comfortable chair near a blazing fire.

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Author:   Otto Penzler
Publisher:   Penzler Publishers
Imprint:   Penzler Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.484kg
ISBN:  

9781613167014

ISBN 10:   1613167016
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   14 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Anthony Boucher..……………………………………………………….Mystery for Christmas Lillian de la Torre……………………………………………………..The Stolen Christmas Box Carter Dickson………………………………………….…………..Person or Things Unknown Stanley Ellin…………………………………………………………….Death on Christmas Eve Steve Fisher……………………………………………………………..…..If Christmas Comes Pat Frank…………………………………………………………………..The Christmas Bogey Baynard Kendrick……………………………………………………………….….Silent Night John D. MacDonald………………………………………………….Dead on Christmas Street Meredith Nicholson………………………………………………….A Reversible Santa Claus Norvell Page………………………………………………………….Crime’s Christmas Carol Ellery Queen………………………………………………………………The Dauphin’s Doll Mary Roberts Rinehart…………………………………………….The Butler’s Christmas Eve Damon Runyon……………………………………………………...Dancing Dan’s Christmas

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Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.

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