A review by jbleyle63
Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries by Nicholas Blake, Ethel Lina White, Marjorie Bowen, Ralph Plummer, Raymund Allen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Leo Bruce, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Joseph Shearing, H.C. Bailey, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edmund Crispin, Margery Allingham, Martin Edwards

4.0

Initially I was hesitant to purchase this collection since many of the stories were already familiar to me and available in other books I already own, especially Doyle's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle." Ultimately it is one I'm glad to own for the stories and authors introduced to me. New favorites include Ethel Lina White's suspenseful "Waxworks," Leo Bruce's "Beef for Christmas" and Edgar Wallace's "Stuffing." Martin Edwards well researched introductions proved manna to my love of British Golden Age mysteries and the selections were curated so that I even enjoyed rereading the old familiar tales. Overall kudos to the British Library Crime Classics line which has me eager to explore beyond the two books I've read from them.