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A review by mike_brough
Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season by Marjorie Bowen, Cecily Gayford, Julian Symons, Lawrence Block, John Dickson Carr, G.K. Chesterton, Val McDermid, Ellis Peters, Margery Allingham, Michael Innes, Ian Rankin
4.0
A good collection of Christmas-related mysteries, mostly of the old school although the Rankin and McDermid stories are from the present-day. I'd read a couple of these before in The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries but they were no worse for the re-visiting.
The pick of the, for Christmas spirit at least, are Ian Rankin's Rebus short story and Chesterton's Father Brown, although Block's Nero Wolfe pastiche is entertaining too.
Well worth a read, especially if you like Christmas to be a little darker than most do.
The pick of the, for Christmas spirit at least, are Ian Rankin's Rebus short story and Chesterton's Father Brown, although Block's Nero Wolfe pastiche is entertaining too.
Well worth a read, especially if you like Christmas to be a little darker than most do.