A Christmas Criminal. A Priceless Letter. A Theft To Remember. Elizabeth State Dies. Now her identity lives again. Elizabeth State loves stealing. She needs the money for a sick mother. Elizabeth targets an exhibition. Can Elizabeth steal her price? If you enjoy enthralling, unputdownable crime mystery short stories, you’ll seriously love this one! BUY NOW! Available in Criminal Christmas Complete Collection.
"[Murder After Christmas] supplies cheerfully calculating relatives, decorously brutal dialogue, and a fiendishly intricate set of Chinese boxes before the surprising reveal...no, they don't make them like this anymore."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "A war's on and a murder has been committed—and we sit here talking nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!" Good old Uncle Willie—known for an insatiable sweet tooth and being an epic pain in the rear—has come to stay with the Redpaths for the holidays. As luck would have it, he's found dead in the snow, in a Santa suit on Boxing Day. It seems as though someone may have poisoned his chocolate...or was it the mince pie? As the police flock to the house, Willie's descendants, past lovers and distant relatives are drawn into a perplexing investigation to find out how the old man met his fate, and who stands to gain by such an unseasonable crime. First published in 1944, Murder After Christmas is a lively riot of murder, holiday desserts, and misdirection, cleverly twisting the tropes of Golden Age detective fiction to create a pacey, light-hearted package admirably suited for the holiday season. Featuring an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author and series editor Martin Edwards.
Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in this wonderful mystery collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from World War Two. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: · Confession In The Darkness · Protecting Christmas · Christmas Thief · Christmas, Crime, Letter · Private Eye, Convention and Christmas · Cheater At Dinner · Perfect Christmas · Salvation In The Maid · Criminal, Resistance, Alliance · Dark Farm · Great Give Away BUY NOW!
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Crime at Christmas" by C. H. B. Kitchin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in the first holiday collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from my Bettie English Private Eye series. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: · Confession In The Darkness · Protecting Christmas · Christmas Thief · Christmas, Crime, Letter · Private Eye, Convention and Christmas BUY NOW!
If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this new mystery series by Kathi Daley, author of the popular Zoe Donovan Cozy Mystery Series. Set in the small town of White Eagle Montana, the series features Tess and her dog Tilly, who spend their days delivering the latest gossip along with the daily mail. When a close friend is murdered they join forces with the new Veterinarian in town to sleuth out the truth behind the shocking murder that is rocking the community as it prepares for the annual Christmas Festival.
"Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book." —C.S. Green, author of Sleep Tight Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? Agatha Christie meets Clue in this delightful, tense manor house murder mystery. The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for—deeds to the house itself—but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her mother died, twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams. Until, that is, she receives a letter from her aunt promising that the game's riddles will give her the keys not only to Endgame, but to its darkest secrets, including the identity of her mother's murderer. Now, Lily must compete with her estranged cousins for the twelve days of Christmas. The snow is thick, the phone lines are down, and no one is getting in or out. Lily will have to keep her wits about her, because not everyone is playing fair, and there's no telling how many will die before the winner is declared. Including additional scavenger hunts for the reader, this clever murder mystery is the perfect gift for fans of classic mysteries, festive Christmas books, and armchair detective work.
Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in the second holiday collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from World War Two. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: · Cheater At Dinner · Perfect Christmas · Salvation In The Maid · Criminal, Resistance, Alliance · Dark Farm · Great Give Away BUY NOW!
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by Tolkien’s inventiveness in this classic holiday treat.
