Books like The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Four Christmas crime stories, two of them featuring Adam Dalgliesh, written over the years for magazines.
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Mystery in White
On Christmas Eve, passengers stranded when their train sticks in a snowdrift take shelter in an empty country house, where the table is laid for tea and the fire is lit.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Simeon Lee, a cruel, rich old man, gathers his family for Christmas at his country house, and on Christmas Eve he is found with his throat cut in a locked room.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
The Red House Mystery
Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.
Christmas Days
Twelve Christmas stories, from ghosts to a magic box, each paired with a recipe and a memory from Winterson's own Christmases.
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Newly retired from her London PR firm to a Cotswolds village, Agatha Raisin enters a shop-bought quiche in the local baking competition to win friends, and the judge drops dead after eating it.
The Ginza Ghost
Twelve impossible-crime stories from the golden age of the Japanese mystery in the 1930s.
The Hunting Party
A group of old Oxford friends spends New Year at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands, and when a blizzard cuts them off, one of them is murdered.
Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.
Murder in the Crooked House
At the Ice Floe Mansion, a tilted glass house on the northern tip of Hokkaido, a wealthy industrialist gathers guests for Christmas, and a chauffeur is found stabbed in a locked room.
The Hollow Man
Professor Grimaud, a lecturer on magic and the occult, is visited at home in London by a masked stranger, and is found shot in his locked study with no one inside and no footprints in the fresh snow.
Let It Snow
Three linked love stories set over one snowbound Christmas Eve in a small town, starting with a train stuck in a blizzard.