EAN: 9781613165720

CHRISTMAS CRIMES AT THE MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP

The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world  The Mysterious Bookshop  has for most of
its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its
customers. Written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere  the stories were
given as a holiday gift to its customers as a thank you for their business  handed out or
mailed between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. The prompt for the story requires three
elements: that it be set at Christmastime  that it involve a crime of some kind  or the
suspicion of one  and that it be set at least partially in the bookstore. And from these loose
structural guidelines  diverse tales took flight. The thirteen tales included in this volume
are among the finest to be produced in this annual tradition  sure to charm any reader looking
for a holiday-themed escape. Included herein are the ingenious "Snowflake Time" by Laura
Lippman  Lyndsay Faye's tale of vengeance "A Midnight Clear"  the challenging brainteaser  "A
Christmas Puzzle " by Ragnar Jónasson  "Hester's Gift " an impossible crime story by Tom Mead 
the suspenseful "The Christmas Party" by Jeffery Deaver  Thomas Perry's hilarious comedy of
errors  "Here We Come A-Wassailing " and other tales appropriate for the season  collected and
introduced by Otto Penzler. The result is  objectively speaking  the finest "stocking stuffer"
that a mystery fan could hope to find.

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