Mistletoe and Mayhem
Mistletoe and Mayhem

Author: Kate Kingsbury

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1101445084

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In this Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery, guests and staff alike are coming together under the kissing bough—only to fall victim to a cold-blooded killer… At the Pennyfoot Hotel, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily’s dear friend Madeline arrives with her new baby and adds a kissing bough to the festive decorations. Cecily gets in the spirit by kissing the precious baby beneath the bough, believing that the holiday couldn’t be getting off to a better start. But after a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the bough and turn up dead, the staff is convinced a serial killer is spending the holidays at the Pennyfoot. And when Madeline’s baby disappears, Cecily has her hands full desperately trying to find the child. If she doesn’t catch this killer in time, everyone’s cheer will quickly turn to fear…

Mistletoe and Murder
Mistletoe and Murder

Author: Robin Stevens

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1481489143

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“As entertaining as ever.” —The Horn Book Hazel and Daisy trade mistletoe for a murder investigation and set out to save the day (Christmas Day that is!) in this fabulously festive fifth novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas holidays in snowy Cambridge. Hazel is looking forward to a calm vacation among the beautiful spires, cozy libraries, and inviting tea-rooms. But there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College and two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident. At least, it appears to be an accident—until the Detective Society looks a little closer, and realizes a murder has taken place. Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage if they’re going to find the killer before Christmas dinner.

Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe
Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe

Author: Terence Faherty

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780373264018

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Four top mystery authors present four new tales of intrigue and murder set during the holiday season. Favorite characters that are featured are Terence Faherty's metaphysical sleuth Owen Keane, Alieen Schumacher's New Mexico engineer Tory Travers, Wendi Lee's Boston P.I. Angela Matelli, and Bill Crider's Texas sheriff Dan Rhodes.

Mistletoe, Merriment, and Murder
Mistletoe, Merriment, and Murder

Author: Sara Rosett

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780758269218

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When an obnoxious professional rival sets up shop in the same small Georgia town - and then is murdered, super organizer Ellie Avery, who is buried in holiday preparations, must unwrap the clues to catch a killer who wants to wish her a very deadly Christmas. Original.

Mistletoe Mysteries
Mistletoe Mysteries

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-12-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1504042573

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Have yourself a mysterious little Christmas with fifteen whodunits from New York Times–bestselling authors Sharyn McCrumb, Mary Higgins Clark, and more! Peace on Earth isn’t everyone’s cup of tea in Charlotte MacLeod’s “A Cozy for Christmas.” Peter Lovesey’s “The Haunted Crescent” delivers a holiday ghost story with a twist. A training session for department-store Santas turns up Saint Nicks who are anything but angels in Isaac Asimov’s “Ho, Ho, Ho.” Marcia Muller’s “Silent Night” finds a tough private investigator searching San Francisco’s Tenderloin district—and discovering something unexpected. A long-married couple’s ship finally comes in—only to spring a mysterious leak—in Mary Higgins Clark’s “That’s the Ticket.” Scottish superstition catches up with a cat burglar in Sharyn McCrumb’s “A Wee Doch and Doris.” These and many more stories will keep you turning pages and gathering evidence of yuletide mayhem. So when holiday shopping brings out your inner Grinch, hunker down with a hot toddy—and leave the murder to the experts. This festive collection includes stories by Charlotte MacLeod, Peter Lovesey, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Eric Wright, John Lutz, Howard Engel, Mary Higgins Clark, Bill Pronzini, Sharyn McCrumb, Henry Slesar, Edward D. Hoch, Aaron Elkins, Susan Dunlap, Isaac Asimov, and Marcia Muller.

Goodnight MooM
Goodnight MooM

Author: Jack Maclane

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13:

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LITTLE HARRY WASN’T LIKE OTHER CHILDREN Harry never cared for reading or writing. He never showed any interest in baseball or TV. Harry lived for other things — like the pleasing sound of living creatures screaming in agony. And the soothing feel of warm blood running through his fingers. But when his grisly experiments progressed beyond stray pets and farm animals to classmates, Harry’s dad decided to lock the boy away for good in the family basement. After all, the neighbors might begin to talk… In the solitude of the dank, musty cellar, Harry waited and grew… and grew… and GREW! And while he waited, he was counseled by his one and only friend — the bright silvery orb in the inight sky that he called “Moom.” Harry spoke to Moom. And Moom spoke to Harry. Moom told Harry what he should do when he finally broke out of his subterranean prison … Moom told Harry to kill… and Kill… and KILL…

Booked for a Hanging - A Dan Rhodes Mystery
Booked for a Hanging - A Dan Rhodes Mystery

Author: Bill Crider

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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The versatile mystery novelist Bill Crider has created a pantheon of marvelous characters, but none is more real, warm, and thoroughly delightful than Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas. In his sixth adventure, Rhodes is confronted with what seems at first to be a suicide: the body of a man newly arrived in the county is found hanged in the dilapidated building he has taken over for his business. Simon Graham was a rare-book dealer. If it seems unlikely to find such an arcane entrepreneur in this extremely rural and sparsely populated part of Texas, it becomes less strange when it turns out that Graham was more con man than bibliophile. The presumed suicide begins to look more and more like murder when several newcomers swoop down on the scene and try to beat out one another to find a reputedly valuable rare book that Graham was rumored to have among his collection of hardly worthwhile items. Although Rhodes's two attenuated and eccentric jailhouse employees have gone overboard for the magic of the department's new computer, the steady, if put-upon, Rhodes and his clear-eyed observations of human nature have invariably been more useful to the solution of a crime—and that is still true in the case of the hanged book dealer.

Dead on the Island
Dead on the Island

Author: Bill Crider

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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PI Truman Smith has become a loner after failing to find his sister Jan during a recent search of Galveston Island. He jogs on the Seawall, plays with his cat, and reads lots of Faulkner books. He is pulled from his self-imposed retirement when his old high school football buddy Dino asks him to find a young girl named Sharon. As Tru begins his investigation, dead bodies begin to appear and Tru himself is attacked. His search for Sharon takes him to all sorts of interesting places on and near the Island. Bill Crider spins a good mystery tale in a wonderful setting with interesting characters and enough plot twists to keep readers guessing until the last few chapters.