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I had a lot of fun reading these mystery short stories but the book is big!! It might have been better if I had started in early November instead of the beginning of December. I had read surprisingly few of the stories before (only Arthur Conan Doyle & Agatha Christie I believe). It was a nice touch that the book opened and closed with stories by the Grand Dame of Mysteries, Agatha Christie, the only author to have more than one story (one a Poirot story & the other a Miss Marple).The 2 stor...
This is a super-fun book. I read a few stories this year, and will now put it away to be re-opened next Christmas season. This book will last me years and years! :)
What could be more perfect than mysteries at Christmas? Christmas is the happiest time of year and all that, but the cold winter days are also the perfect setting for all things dark and twisty. Maybe a murder, perhaps a robbery gone wrong, or maybe there could be a ghost. However you like your mystery there is something for you in The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. There are ghosts, thieves and cold-hearted murderers. There are traditional mysteries and modern mysteries, funny mysteries and s...
This is truly a BIG book. It contains 59 stories by my count (not 60, as the Goodreads description states) arranged in 10 loosely themed categories. The wide range of authors whose stories appear in the collection includes, in no particular order, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Ellis Peters, John D. MacDonald, Damon Runyon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Donald E. Westlake, Mary Higgins Clark, G. K. Chesterton, O. Henry, and many more.Not surprisingly, the quality is uneven, or maybe more to the point, som...
I assume the publishers who giveaway books in the first reads program want the recipients to review the book in time for the official release date of the book. This book is so large, with tiny type and two columns per page, and I am reading so many things at once that I will be lucky to finish this by Christmas much less in time for the holiday buying public. So instead of waiting until the end, I shall endeavor to write mini-reviews of some of the stories throughout the next 4-5 weeks or so.I s...
The majority of the writers are British or American. Also some of the authors have more than one story so in some ways the book could be a bit more varied in its selection. Cadefal, Marple, and Poirot are in here. There is one section of just Sherlock Holmes inspired holiday mysteries as well as few ghostly mysteries. It was a fun read.
I have yet to finish this book, and I'm not quite sure that I will. If I do finish, it is certainly going to be with some skipping about as some of the stories are a whee bit much for me. However, there are at least several truly fun ones, and the cover is even more adorable in person, so as of this moment I would give it a 50/50 review. :)12/28/16 Update:Finished! And I actually quite liked it.I ended up reading only 56/59 stories because of the reasons stated above. Favorite stories:"The Butle...
A great selection of Christmas mystery short stories, enjoyed most all of them, a couple I skipped that were not for me. Took me a year reading just a few pages at a time, but the selection of well know and not so well known authors was intriguing!
I won this book in a goodreads drawing.Another well chosen anthology of mysteries by Penzler, with some truly obscure gems. However, the theme does begin to wear on one after a while.
This is a fabulous collection of short stories, connected by Christmas (at least a mention) and mystery. They run the gamut from profound to silly, from the deft cozy to the chilling. The stories are sectioned so the reader can choose specific types (traditional, funny, Sherlockian, pulpy, uncanny, sorry, surprising, modern, puzzling and classic). I read it straight through, enjoying the variety. Many of the greats are represented here (Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Robe...
I believe I need to buy this book. My home is nearly wall-to-wall books, but................... I'd checked it out at the library where I work, but it is so fabulously written & compiled & such a lovely book, that I may have to purchase it. Did I mention that it is also very, very long? Well, it is.
A mixed bag of authors and stories. I'm a golden age detective fiction fan and I rarely like anything written past 1980. I feel that the stories become progressively worse after the nineties and by the time the century turns, the writing is mediocre, the language coarse, the characters unlikeable as they are amoral and the content nihilistic.Therefore...I really enjoyed the masters of the genre who wrote before 1987 and there are some really marvelous examples in this collection of Ellery Queen,...
A wonderful and HUGE compendium of Christmas mysteries covering all aspects of the genre. Traditional stories, humourous tales, creepy, scary supernatural mysteries, pulp fiction tales, modern whodunnits, puzzling and classic short stories.Every possible angle is addressed with authors ranging from Christie, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson all the way up to more modern authors such as Colin Dexter, Susan Moody and Mary Higgins Clark.In this heavy tome there is something
