"A Maigret Christmas and Other Stories," by Georges Simenon
Classic Mysteries
Maigret stars in one of these holiday stories, while other associates of Maigret feature in two more tales of holiday crime and redemption.
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"Halfway House," by Ellery Queen
Classic Mysteries
Too bad about Joe Wilson. The itinerant traveling salesman had a secret. And it’s only fair to point out that it turned out to be a deadly secret indeed – a secret which apparently led to his murder. Ellery Queen needed the truth to keep the wrong person from paying for someone else's crime.
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"The Spiked Lion," by Brian Flynn
Classic Mysteries
The victim's body turned up under a tree in a park, the body unusually battered and bruised – but that’s not what killed him; he appeared to have had potassium cyanide sprayed into his nose. What kind of animal could do that - and why?
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"It Walks By Night," by John Dickson Carr
Classic Mysteries
The first impossible crime novel by the 20th century master of impossibilities, John Dickson Carr: It couldn't have been suicide - the victim was beheaded inside a watched and locked room - but the room was empty, except for the victim. French police director Henri Bencolin stars.
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"The Case of the Leaning Man," by Christopher Bush
Classic Mysteries
Ludovic Travers and Superintendent George Wharton of Scotland Yard take on a family feud that may have led to a couple of murders.
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"It Might Lead Anywhere," by E.R. Punshon
Classic Mysteries
It was clearly going to be an interesting case – the murder of an inoffensive little man with no apparent enemies, not much in the way of physical clues. And that kind of case can be very frustrating indeed.
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"Crossed Skis, by Carol Carnac
Classic Mysteries
What connection could there be between a gruesome fire in a London house and a ski holiday in Lech Am Arlberg in the Austrian Alps? The answer may conceal a ruthless murderer. A mystery by E.C.R. Lorac writing as "Carol Carnac."
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"The Christmas Egg," by Mary Kelly
Classic Mysteries
Princess Olga Karukhin escaped from Russia after the revolution. Was she murdered for her supposed collection of art objects that appears to have vanished?
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"Death and the Dutch Uncle," by Patricia Moyes
Classic Mysteries
Superintendent Henry Tibbett finds the murder of a small-time crook conceals a much more deadly plot.
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"The Glimpses of the Moon," by Edmund Crispin
Classic Mysteries
Edmund Crispin's final full-length mystery featuring Gervase Fen. A mystery with artfully rearranged bodies & missing heads & eccentric characters & assorted mayhem - and funny as well.
info_outlineIt couldn't have been suicide - the victim was beheaded inside a watched and locked room - but the room was empty, except for the victim. French police director Henri Bencolin stars in the first novel by John Dickson Carr.