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Welcome to our Christmas Mysteries list. The Christmas season has long inspired authors to compose some of our greatest mysteries and thrillers. Perhaps it is an interesting contrast to the primarily jovial air that Christmas brings, or maybe, as the winter sets in and the days grow short and the nights cold, the setting seems just right for a chilling suspense novel. These readings make great gifts as well. Pick up a few titles to give to your friends and family along with some candy or Christmas photo cards. You can also order a couple of big banners for your holiday party. Our compilation is arranged by Author's last name. At the bottom of the page there is a list of mystery anthologies, as well.

Mystery / Suspense / Thriller 

Mystery A - G

Anthony Abbot - About the Murder of a Startled Lady --- About the Murder of Geraldine Foster 
Lydia Adamson - A Cat in the Wings -- A Cat in the Manger -- A Cat on the Jingle Bell Rock -- A Cat Under the Mistletoe -- A Cat Under the Christmas Tree (Alice Nestleton Mysteries)
Susan Wittig Albert  -  Mistletoe Man    (A China Bayles Mystery) - Holly Blues (China Bayles Mystery)
Michael Derek Allen -  Spence and the Holiday Murders 
David Alexander - Shoot a Sitting Duck 
Gary Amo -  Silent Night 
Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews (Meg Langslow Mysteries)
David Jay Arts - Quiet Desperation

Maureen Ash - Murder for Christ's Mass (A Templar Night Mystery)

Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity's Christmas
Rosemary Aubert - The Feast of Stephen (Ellis Portal Mystery)
Marion Babson -  The Twelve Deaths of Christmas -- Line up for Murder - Murder on a Mystery Tour 
Albert C. Baantjer /H. G.  Smittenaar - Murder in Amsterdam: Two "Dekok" Adventures: "Dekok & the Sunday Strangler" & "Dekok & the Corpse on Christmas Eve" 
North Baker  -  Dead to the World 
David Baldacci  -  The Christmas Train
Brian Battison  -  Christmas Bow Murder (A DCI Jim Ashworth Mystery)

M. C. Beaton  - Cold Comfort ---  Death of a Prankster --- Death of a Snob - A Highland Christmas (British Mystery) - Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (Agatha Raisin, #21) Kissing Christmas Goodbye (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 18)

Cyril William Beaumont  -  The Mysterious Toyshop 
C. C. Benison -  Death at Sandrigham House Twelve Drummers Drumming
William Bernhardt  - The Midnight Before Christmas: A Holiday Thriller 
Laurien Berenson ~ Jingle Bell Bark
Gavin Black -  Dragon for Christmas
I'll Be Dead For Christmas ~ Sarah Black / Josh Lanyon (Partners in Crime, No. 2)
Charity  Blackstock -  Foggy, Foggy Dew 
Nicholas Blake  -   The Corpse in the Snowman ---  Thou Shell of Death (Published also as Shell of death) --- The Smiler with the Knife 
Nero Blanc - A Crossworder's Gift ~ Wrapped Up in Crosswords(Crossword Mysteries)
J. S. Borthwick  -  Dude on Arrival  --- The Student Body 
Eleanor Boyland    -   Pushing Murder
Alan Bradley - I Am Half-Sick of Shadows [A Flavia de Luce Novel]
Simon Brett  -    The Christmas Crimes at Puzzle Manor - The Shooting in the Shop
(The Fethering Mysteries – Book XI)

Emily Brightwell - Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Weddings -- Mrs. Jeffries & the Silent Knight -- Mrs. Jeffries & the Feast of St. Stephen --
Mrs. Jeffries and the Mistletoe Mix-Up

Carter Brown  -    A Corpse for Christmas
Frederic Brown  -    Murder can be Fun 
Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie  -   Rest in Pieces - Santa Clawed (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)
Abigail Browning (Editor) - Murder Most Merry: 32 Christmas Crime Stories from the World's Best Mystery Writers
Leo Bruce  -  Such is Death 
Jim Burke  -  A Present for Santa 

William John Burley  -  Death in Willow Pattern

Holly and Homicide - Leslie Caine (A Domestic Bliss Mystery)
Nick Carter  - The Christmas Kill 
Warren Carrier - Justice at Christmas (Suspense)
Thomas Chastain -   911 
Elliott Chaze -  Goodbye Goliath 
George C. Chesbro -  Second Horseman Out of Eden 
The Teaberry Strangler - Laura Childs (A Tea Shop Mystery)
Agatha Christie     Hercule Poirot's Christmas   ---   A Christmas Tragedy  ---  A Holiday for Murder --- Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Jill Churchill -   Farewell to Yarns   ---   Merchant of Menace --- From Here to Paternity
Christine E. Collier - Christmas at Cliffhanger Inn
Max Allan Collins -Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides
Noel Clad   -  Savage 
Carol Higgins Clark -  Iced 

Carol Higgins Clark & Mary Higgins Clark -  Deck The Halls (Alvirah Meehan/Regan Reilly) ~ The Christmas Thief - Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea

Mary Higgins  Clark  -   My Gal Sunday ---  Silent Night --- All Through the Night
Joan Coggin - Who Killed the Curate?
Charles Cohen - Silver Linings
Rex Collings  -  Clerical Crimes for Christmas
Susan Conant  - Gone to the Dogs 
K.C. Constatnine  -   Upon Some Midnight's Clear 
Constance Cornish  -   Dead of Winter 
Harm for the Holidays: Misgivings - Donn Cortez(CSI: Miami)
Cleo Coyle - Latte Trouble - Holiday Grind (Coffeehouse Mysteries)
Alisa Craig  -   Murder Goes Mumming
Philip R. Craig  -  Off Season
Hamilton Crane  -  Starring Miss Seeton

Ann Crowleigh -  Murder Under the Tree (Anthology)

Barbara D'Amato -   Hard Christmas 
Mary Daheim   -   Alpine Christmas --- Nutty As A Fruitcake 
Richard Dalby - Crime for Christmas ---- Mystery for Christmas 
Jeanne M. Dams - The Body in the Transept (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 1) - Indigo Christmas (Hilda Johansson Mysteries, No. 6)
Joel Y. Dane - The Christmas Tree Murders
Chari Davenport - The Christmas Party
Frederick Davis    Drag the Dark
The Diva Cooks a Goose - Krista Davis (A Domestic Diva Mystery)
Mildred  Davis -Tell Them What's Her Name Called  --- Three Minutes to Midnight
Janet  Dawson  - Nobody's Child
Spencer Dean  -  Credit for a Murder
William DeAndrea  -  Killed on the Ice

Mark de Castrique ~ Grave Undertaking

Mary-Jane Deeb ~ A Christmas Mystery in Provence
Vicki Delany ~ Winter of Secrets (Trafalgar Mystery) It begins on Christmas Eve and ends on New Years day.
Colin Dexter -   The Secret of Annexe 3
Carter Dickson - The White Priory Murders
Diplomat [John Franklin Carter] - The Corpse on the White House Lawn
 Joanne Dobson - Quieter Than Sleep
Deborah Donnelly - Died to Match --- May the Best Man Die (Wedding Planner Mystery)
Carole Nelson Douglas  -   Cat in a Golden Garland
Todd Downing - The Last Trumpet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
John Keith Drummond  -   'Tis the Season to Be Dying 
James Duffy  -  The Christmas Gang
Richard Dalby - Crime for Christmas --- Mystery for Christmas
Sophie Dunbar - Shiveree (Story line is during Christmas time)

A Killer's Christmas in Wales by Elizabeth J. Duncan (Penny Brannigan Mysteries)

Carola Dunn - Death at Wentwater Court -- Mistletoe and Murder
A Wee Christmas Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett (Liss MacCrimmon Scottish-American Heritage No. 3)

Mary Durham  -  Keeps Death His Court

Mignon G. Eberhart  -  Postmark Murder 
Lesley Egan -  Crime for Christmas
Cyprian Ekwensi - Restless City and Christmas Gold
Steve Englehart  -  Christmas Countdown 
Janet Evanovich -Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie Plum Series)
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon  -   Mystery in White
E. X. Ferrars  -  The Small World of Murder --- Smoke without Fire
Monica Ferris ~ Crewel Yule ( A Needlecraft Mystery)
The Fleet Street Murders - Charles Finch (Charles Lenox Mystery, No. 3) - Historical Mystery / Victorian Thriller
Jane Finnis ~ A Bitter Chill (Aurelia Marcella Roman Series) - 1st-century Roman Britain at Saturnalia; a midwinter festival the Romans celebrated in late December. Different Religion, but Christmas later succeeded it.
Jessica Fletcher / Donald Bain   -  A Little Yuletide Murder  ---  Manhattans and Murder  - Murder Never Takes a Holiday (Murder She Wrote)

Joanne Fluke - Sugar Cookie Murder - Plum Pudding Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries) - Gingerbread Cookie Murder

Brian Flynn    -   The Murders Near Mapleton
Rae Foley  -   Hundreth Door -  Where is Mary Bostwick?
Leslie Ford  -   The Simple Way of Poison
Margaret Frazier   -   The Servant's Tale - The Novice's Tale
Shelley Freydont ~ Merry Little Murder
Sara Hoskinson Frommer ~ Witness in Bishop Hill (Joan Spencer mystery) - mystery takes place during the Lucia celebration in a tiny Swedish-American village in Illinois
Landed Gently - Alan Hunter (Inspector George Gently Case Files – Book IV)

Clyde Bowman Furst  -  The Observations of Professor Maturin

John Gano -  Inspector Proby's Christmas 
Jostein Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery
A.H. Garnet   -    Santa Claus Killer 
Anne George - Murder on a Bad Hair Day

A Holiday Yarn - Sally Goldenbaum (A Seaside Knitters Mystery)

Jonathan Goodman ~ The Christmas Murders (True Crime/H-Christmas)
Robert Gouze - A Quiet Game of Bambu 
Sue Grafton  -   E. is for Evidence
Slay Ride - Chris Grabenstein (A Christopher Miller Holiday Thriller)

Hell for the Holidays - Chris Grabenstein (A Christopher Miller Holiday Thriller)

Pamela Thomas-Graham - Orange Crushed
Ann Granger -  A Season for Murder
Sarah Graves - Wreck the Halls (Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery)
Andrew M. Greeley  - Star Bright! A Christmas Story 
Christine Green -  Deadly Partners
Susanna Gregory - A Conspiracy of Violence (historical mystery)
Martha Grimes  -  Jerusalem Inn --- Man with a Load of Mischief --- Old Fox Deceived 
Victor Gunn -   Death on Shivering Sand

Sally Gunning -   Ice Water

 
Mystery H, I, J, K  

Jane Haddam  -  A Stillness in Bethlehem  ---  Festival of Deaths  ---  Not A Creature Was Stirring  --- Fountain of Death

Jean Hager -   The Last Noel 
Robert Lee Hall  -  Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder (Historical Mystery)
Dashiel Hammett  -  The Thin Man
Cyril Hare  -   An English Murder 
Richard Hardwick -  Season to be Deadly
Glenna Hartwell /A. R. E. Press Editors -  Christmas Story: As Told by Edgar Cayce
Lee Harris  -  The Christmas Night Murder
Carolyn G. Hart -  Sugarplum Dead (A Death on Demand Mystery)
Ellen Hart -  Vital Lies --- Murder in the Air 
Charlaine  Harris  -   Shakespeare's Christmas
Janis Harrison  -   Murder Sets Seed
The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir by Kenneth Harmon
Karen Harper - The Queene's Christmas (An Elizabeth I Mystery)
M Doriel Hay - The Santa Klaus Murder
Tim Heald  -  Classic Christmas Crime
Sandra Heath  -  Mistletoe Mischief
You Better Knot Die - Betty Hechtman (A Crochet Mystery)
Set the Night on Fire - Libby Fischer Hellman
Tim Hemlin - A Catered Christmas
Joan Hess -  A Holly, Jolly Murder -- - O Little Town of Maggody 
Georgette  Heyer -  Envious Casca
Reginald Hill - Death's Jest-Book  /    A Clubbalbe Woman (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
Isabell Holland - Fatal Advent
Joyce Holms - Thin Ice (Fizz and Buchanan mysteries) UK ed.
Dee Holmes - The Unexpected Gift 
Edith Howie - Murder for Christmas
John Howlett  -  The Christmas Spy
Cledwyn Hughes -  The Different Drummer ---  The Inn Closes for Christmas
Fergus Hume -  The Coin of Edward VII
Alan Hunter -   Landed Gently
Murder on the Candlelight Tour by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter (A Wilmington, N.C., Mystery)
Fred Hunter  -  Ransom for a Holiday 
Jack Iams  -   Do Not Murder Before Christmas 
 Voices- Arnaldur Indridason & Bernard Scudder (A Reykjavik Thriller)
Michael Innes - A Comedy of Terrors
Karen Irving  -  Jupiter's Daughter 
Mike Jahn - Murder on Fifth Avenue (Bill Donovan Mystery)
Cathie John  -  Add One Dead Critic 
Cathleen Jordan  - A Carol in the Dark 

Jennifer Jordan  -   Murder Under the Mistletoe

Henry Kane  -   A Corpse for Christmas 
Fred E. Katz  -   Not A Creature Was Stirring 
 A Canterbury Crime - Brian Kavanagh [Belinda Lawrence Murder Mystery]
M. M. Kaye -   Death in the Andamans 
Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman - Double Homicide - (Boston & Santa Fe) both novels take place around Christmas
Lee Charles Kelley - 'Twas The Bite Before Christmas
Mary Kelly  -  The Christmas Egg

Toni L.P. Kelner - Mad as the Dickens

Stepen Kendrick- Night Watch (Sherlock Holmes meets Father Brown)
Laurie R. King  -  A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Kate Kingsbury - No Clue At The Inn - Slay Bells - Shrouds of Holly - Slay Bells - Shrouds of Holly- Ringing In Murder - Decked with Folly - Mistletoe and Mayhem (Special Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery) Herald of Death (Pennyfoot Mystery)
Henry Kisor - Season's Revenge : A Christmas Mystery
Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin  -  Crime at Christmas 
Lisa Kleinholz  -  Exiles on Main Street
Alanna Knight - The Dagger in the Crown (Historical Mystery)
Kathleen Moore Knight  -  They're Going To Kill Me
Stephen Knight - Corpse at the Opera House  Crimes for a Summer Christmas Ser. Series #3 - Murder at Home: Crimes for a Summer Christmas #4    - More Crimes for a Summer Christmas 
Edward Koch -  Murder on 34th Street 
Dean R. Koontz  - Mister Murder (thriller)


Mystery L-O

M. D. Lake - A Gift For Murder ---  Grave Choices
Marcia Landreth -  The Holiday Murders
Jane Langton -  The Shortest Day --- Murder at the Revels --- The Memorial Hall Murder 
Emma Lathen -   Banking on Death
Hilda Lawrence - Blood Upon the Snow 
Treat Lawrence  -  Q As In Quicksand
Joan G Levine  / Gail Owens -  Santa Claus Mystery 
Ted Jack Lewis -  Carter's Law 
Nancy Livingston  -  Quiet Murder
William John Locke -  A Christmas Mystery 
Richard Lockridge  -   Dead Run
Manning Long - Vicious Circle
Charlotte Macleod - The Convivial Codfish  --- Murder Goes Mumming --- Rest You Merry 
Rhett MacPherson - Comedy of Heirs
Valerie S. Malmont - Death, Snow and Mistletoe (Tori Miracle)
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder by Jeff Markowitz
Jeffery Marks - A Canine Christmas   (with  Joe Blades)  
Amanda Matetsky - Murder Is a Girl's Best Friend (Paige Turner Mysteries)
Bill Marantz -  Christmas Eve Can Kill You
Margaret Maron - Corpus Christmas (Lt. Sigrid Harald Mystery) -- Rituals of the Season (Judge Deborah Knott series, No. 11) --  Christmas Mourning (Judge Deborah Knott, No. 12)
Carole Marsh - Haunted Christmas Tree Mystery --- The White House Christmas Mystery (Carole Marsh Mysteries)  

Ngaio Marsh  -  Tied Up In Tinsel

Ed McBain  -  And All Through the House --- Downtown --- The Pusher --- Sadie When She Died --- Ghosts
Stuart McBride - 12 Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (short stories) [ Kindle - Audio] - A Partridge in a Pear Tree 1 - Turtle Doves 2 - French Hens 3 - Calling Birds 4 - Gold Rings 5 - Geese a Laying 6 - Swans a Swimming 7 - Maids a Milking 8 - Ladies Dancing - 9 - Lords a Leaping 10 - Pipers Piping 11- Drummers Drumming 12
Helen McCloy -  Mr. Splitfoot --- Burn This
James McClure  -  The Gooseberry Fool 
Donna M. McFadden - Escape From Yesterday (briefly, one short scene takes place on Christmas)
Jill McGown  -   Murder at the Old Vicarage
Leslie Meier -  Mail Order Murder -- Christmas Cookie Murder  --- Mistletoe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery)

There Goes Santa Claus- Nancy Mehl (Ivy Towers Mystery, No. 4)

Doris R. Meredith -  Murder by Sacrilege
David William  Meredith -  Christmas Card Murders
Jahn  Michael -   Murder on Fifth Avenue 
High Heels and Holidays by Kasey Michaels (Maggie Kelly)
Alan Alexander Milne -  A Table Near The Band --  Christmas Party
Valerie Miner - Murder in the English Department
A Rumpole Christmas: Stories - John Mortimer
The Spy Who Came for Christmas by David Morrell

Patricia Moyes -  Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Unseasonable Demises --- Season of Snows and Sins

Cat Deck the Halls by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (Joe Grey Mysteries, Book 13)
Magdalen Naab -Death of an Englishman 
Anne Nash  -   Said With Flowers
Hugh L. Nelson - The Season for Murder
Death for the Holiday - Barbara Newton
Joan Nixon  -   The Christmas Eve Mystery
Robert Norden  -   Death Beneath the Christmas Tree 
Carol O'Connell - Judas Child
Sr. C. A. O'Marie -   Murder in Ordinary Time ---  A Novena for Murder

Mystery P- Z 

Katherine Hall Page -  A Body in Boullion --- Body in the Big Apple (Faith Fairchild Culinary Mystery)
Robert B. Parker - The Widening Gyre 
Jack Pearl  -   Victims
Joanne Pence - Two Cooks A-Killling (Angie Amalfi mystery) -
Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop by Otto Penzler
Anne Perry - A Christmas Journey (historical) - A Christmas Guest
Ellis Peters -   A Rare Bendedictine --- Raven in the Foregate 
Scott Phillips - The Ice Harvest
Bill Pomidor - Mind over Murder
Mary Monica Pulver -  Original Sin 

Spirits In A Material World: A Christmas Mystery - Colin Quashie

Ellery Queen -  Calamity Town --- Cat of Many Tails --- The Egyptian Cat Mystery --- The Finishing Stroke
Patrick Quentin  -  Follower 
Randy Rawls - Jingle's Christmas (Arthur Conan Edwards (Ace), Dallas PI)
Robert Ray  -  Merry Christmas, Murdock
Richard  Reinsmith  Body for Christmas   Bodyguard Ser. 
Let There Be Suspects by Emilie Richards (Ministry Is Murder Mystery)
Phil Rickman - Midwinter of the Spirit (Supernatural crime)
Ann Ripley - The Christmas Garden Affair
S. K. Rizzolo - The Rose in the Wheel (Regency Mystery)
J.D. Robb -  Holiday in Death (furturistic police procedural - woman detective) 
Gillian Roberts -   Philly Stakes --- The Mummer's Curse
Peter Robinson -   Past Reason Hated
Elliot Roosevelt  - White House Pantry Murder 
Jennifer Rowe -   Death in Store  --- Love Lies Bleeding: Crimes for a Summer Christmas 5 
Jane Rubino -   FruitCake

Patrick Ruell -    Red Christmas

Mary Saums - When The Last Magnolia Weeps (Private eye Willi Taft gets in the holiday spirit at a Celtic Christmas concert)
Corrine Holt Sawyer   -    HoHo Homicide
The Gun In Daniel Webster's Bust - Margaret Scherf, Tom Schantz, and Enid Schantz (Rue Morgue Vintage Mysteries)
The Christmas Cantata by Mark Schweizer
Aileen Schumacher  -  Framework for Death 
M. R. Sellars - Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation
David Serafin  -  Christmas Rising

Fleece Navidad - Maggie Sefton (Knitting Mysteries, No. 6)

Sarah R Shaber - Burying Ground [Amazon / AmazonUK]
Dell Shannon  -  No Holiday for Crime

Connie Shelton - Honeymoons Can Be Murder - Holidays can be Murder (Charlie Parker Mysteries)

Celestine Sibley - Spider in the Sink: A Kate Mulcay Mystery
George Simenon -   Maigret's Christmas (foreign mystery)
Barbara Burnett  Smith -  Mistletoe from the Purple Sage 
George Harmon Smith - The Christmas Angel
Joan Smith -  Don't Leave Me This Way 
Margie & Amand Smoak - Generals' Row
Patricia H. Sprinkle  -  Mystery Bred in Buckhead

Jonathan Stagge -  The Yellow Taxi 

Denise Swanson - Murder of a Barbie and Ken (Thanksgiving with a touch of the whole Christmas craziness)
Marcia Talley ~ Occasion of Revenge (Hannah Ives Mystery)
Elizabeth A. Taylor  -   Cable Car Murder 
Sarah Stewart Taylor - O Artful Death

A Bitter Truth - Charles Todd [A Bess Crawford Mystery]

Carlene Thompson  -   The Way You Look Tonight (thriller) 
John Tooke - On the Twelfth Day of Christmas

Leonard D. Tourney -   Knaves Templar 

Peter Tremayne  (aka Peter Berresford Ellis) -  The Haunted Abbot (Sister Fidelma - Historical Mystery)
Kathy Hogan Trochede - Midnight Clear
Michael Underwood -  Party to Murder
Barry Unsworth - Morality Play
Jean Van Leeuwen -  The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper
John Wainwright -   Life & Times of Christmas Calvert . . . Assassin  (Nightingale Ser. )
Darkness nd the Devil Behind Me - Persia Walker (Lanie Price Mystery) - Historical Mystery / Harlem, 1923
Livia J. Washburn - The Christmas Cookie Killer (A Fresh-Baked Mystery No. 3) The Gingerbread Bump-Off (A Fresh-Baked Mystery)
Mary V Welk -Deadly Little Christmas ( A Caroline Rhodes Mystery) A Merry Little Murder (A Rhodes to Murder Mystery Book One)
Charlene Weir ~ A Cold Christmas (Chief of Police Susan Wren)
Chassie West - Killer Chameleon - mention of Christmas in storyline
R.D. Wingfield -    Frost At Christmas
David Wishart - Last Rites (Historical Mystery) - Set at Saturnalia which corresponds with Christmas
Valerie Wolzien -  Tis the Season to Be Jolly --- We Wish You A Merry Murder --- Deck the Halls With Murder 
James Yaffe  - Mom Meets Her Maker
Elizabeth York  -  House of the Enchantress

 

Mystery Anthologies 

Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides ~ Max Allan Collins
A Canine Christmas  - Jeffery Marks  (with  Joe Blades)   
A Classic Christmas Crime ~ Tim Heald, et al. (Contemporary)

Cat Crimes for the Holidays (Contemporary- Thanksgiving /Hanukkah /Christmas)   - Martin Greenberg (Ed.) 

Crime for Christmas --  Mistletoe and Mayhem --  Mystery for Christmas -- Richard Dalby  (Ed.)  
This Christmas - Jane Green, Jennifer Coburn and Liz Ireland

Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop edited by Otto Penzler (Mary Higgins Clark, Anne Perry, Andrew Klavan, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, and many others...)

 Christmas Stalkings --- Mistletoe Mysteries  - Charlotte Macleod  (Ed.)  
Christmas Present Mystery - Marion  Markham / M. McCully / Emily Arnold 
Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas - Susan Slater, Ed Gorman, Irene Marcuse, Michael Jahn Saving Louisa - Clyde Linsley [begins before Christmas and continues through Mardi Gras (in New Orleans.)]
A Crossworder's Holiday ~ Nero Blanc (Contemporary) (A Mystery with Crosswords)
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: The First 50 Years, the 50 Best Stories - Eleanor  Sullivan  
Holmes for the Holidays / More Holmes for the Holidays ~ Martin H. Greenberg, et al. (Anthology/Mystery/H-Victorian/Christmas) (Sherlock Holmes)
How Still We See Thee Lie ~ Allana Martin, Connie Shelton, Elizabeth Gunn, Tom Mitcheltree (Anthology/Mystery-Christmas)
Homicide for the Holidays (Wwl Mystery) -  Jane Rubino, Kathleen Anne Barrett, Fred Hunter
The Last Noel -- Steve Brewer, Catherine Dain, Mat Coward and Linda Berry
Maigret's Christmas ~ Georges Simenon (Anthology/Mystery/Police-Christmas)
Merry Murder --- Murder Under the Mistletoe - Murder at Christmas - Mystery for Christmas Cynthia Manson  (Ed.)   
Mistletoe Mysteries ~ Alisa Craig, et al. (Contemporary)
Mistletoe and Mayhem - Katherine Hall Page, Joanne Pence, Christie Ridgway and Judi McCoy -
Murder for Christmas --- Murder for Christmas II - Thomas Godfrey  (Ed.) Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Charles Dickens and Woody Allen.
Murder Mayhem and Mistletoe - Wendi Lee, Aileen Schumacher,
Terence Faherty and Bill Crider
Murder Most Merry: Six Christmas Mysteries - Barbara Block / J. Dayne  Lamb  / Garrison Allen  /James R. McCahery / Toni L. P. Kelner / J.F. Trainor 
Murder Under the Mistletoe: And Other Stories - Arthur Conan Doyle 
Murder Under the Tree  - Ann Crowleigh, Connie Feddersen, J. Dayne Lamb 
Mystery for Christmas: And Other Stories  - Patricia Moyes / John D. MacDonald  / Margery Allingham / Rex Stout  / George Baxt  / Anthony Boucher 
Mystery for Christmas: An Anthology of Murder and Mistletoe ~ Richard Dalby
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Night Before Christmas & The Darlington Substitution, Vol. 25 (audio) - Boucher, Anthony / Bruce, Nigel / Rathbone, Basil 
Santa Clues -  - Martin Greenberg (Ed.) 
Silent Night ~ J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes (Anthology/Mystery/Romance/Contemporary/A/S/Police-Near Future)
'Tis the Season for Murder: Christmas Crimes  - Fred Hunter  / Walter Satterthwaite  / Barbara Burnett Smith 

Twelve Crimes of Christmas  -   Isaac Asimov  / Martin H. Greenberg  / Carol-Lynn R. Waugh

Who Killed Father Christmas : And Other Unseasonable Demises - Patricia  Moyes   

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