The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, Otto Penzler
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, Otto Penzler
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The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Author: Otto Penzler

Series: Big Book

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies, Cat Gould

Unabridged: 32 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries.

Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler collects more than fifty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else. From classic Victorian tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy, to contemporary stories by Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain, this collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant.

Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark and Isaac Asimov; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry–like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you're in the mood for—suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in this book.

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna on November 22, 2021

I have never before reviewed a book that I hadn't yet finished yet and wasn't planning to abandon, but the season is here, and you have to have this book! I was fortunate enough to get it as a "first read" via the Goodreads.com giveaways. It doesn't matter, because if it is for sale before Christmas......more

Goodreads review by Julie on December 05, 2023

There is no better time to reread a short story collection than one that is seasonal. I guess all those early Christmas ads I hate have worked enough magic on me to make me want to dive into the season a bit early. This is a top notch collection of Christmas mysteries, ranging from G.K. Chesterton, M......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 12, 2021

A mixed bag of authors and stories. I'm a golden age detective fiction fan and I rarely like anything written past 1980. I feel that the stories become progressively worse after the nineties and by the time the century turns, the writing is mediocre, the language coarse, the characters unlikeable as......more

Goodreads review by Roberta on December 31, 2020

Agatha Christie - Il caso del dolce di Natale Catherine Aird - Oro, incenso e morte Robert Barnard - Un infausto Santo Stefano Peter Lovesey - La prova del pudding Ellery Queen - L'avventura della bambola del Delfino Colin Dexter - Il mistero più grande per Morse Susan Moody - Più che carne e sangue Mary R......more

Goodreads review by Martina on December 31, 2022

Volume mastodontico, di valore anche estetico. Nel genere "racconti gialli ambientati a Natale" spazia in tutti gli ambiti: dal tradizionale al moderno, dal classico allo sherlockiano, dal buffo, al pulp. E così via: queste sono infatti le parti in cui sono riuniti i vari racconti. Come prevedevo, mi......more