Full name: Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries

Author: Martin Edwards Year: 2016 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781464206757 9780712356657 1464206759 0712356657

Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow, and some very unpleasant carol singers. There's no denying that the supposed season of goodwill is a time of year that lends itself to detective fiction. On a cold night, it's tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery. And more than that, claustrophobic house parties, with people cooped up with long-estranged relatives, can provide plenty of motives for murder. Including forgotten stories by major writers such as Margery Allingham, as well as classic tales by less familiar crime novelists, each story in this selection is introduced by the leading expert on classic crime, Martin Edwards. The resulting volume is an entertaining and atmospheric compendium of wintry delights. Similar books: Silent Nights by Martin Edwards Resorting to Murder by Martin Edwards The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories by P. D. James Blood on the Tracks by Martin Edwards The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction by Edward Gorman Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon Bodies from the Library by Tony Medawar Enough Rope by Lawrence Block Crime Stories from the Strand by Geraldine Beare Murder for Christmas by Thomas Godfrey Sleep No More by P. D. James A Moment on the Edge by Elizabeth George Some Days You Get the Bear by Lawrence Block Not Safe After Dark by Peter Robinson Between Here and the Yellow Sea by Nic Pizzolatto The Under Dog by Agatha Christie The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction by Maxim Jakubowski The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Otto Penzler