The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Permissions Acknowledgments

Catherine Aird: “Gold, Frankincense and Murder” by Catherine Aird, copyright © 1995 by Catherine Aird. Reprinted by permission of K. H. McKintosh and Aitken Alexander Associates, Ltd.

Doug Allyn: “An Early Christmas” by Doug Allyn, copyright © 2009 by Douglas Allyn. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Isaac Asimov: “The Thirteenth Day of Christmas” by Isaac Asimov, copyright © 1981 by Isaac Asimov. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Isaac Asimov.

Robert Barnard: “Boxing Unclever” by Robert Barnard, copyright © 1995 by Robert Barnard. Reprinted by permission of Robert Barnard and Gregory and Company, Authors’ Agents.

Josephine Bell: “The Carol Singers” by Josephine Bell, copyright © 1964 by Josephine Bell. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Group, Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of Josephine Bell.

Marjorie Bowen: “Cambric Tea” by Marjorie Bowen, copyright © 1928 by Marjorie Bowen. Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Sharon Eden.

Agatha Christie: “The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding” by Agatha Christie, copyright © 1923 by Agatha Christie and © 1961 by Agatha Christie Limited. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd.

Agatha Christie: “A Christmas Tragedy” by Agatha Christie, copyright © 1932 by Agatha Christie Limited. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd.

Mary Higgins Clark: “That’s the Ticket” by Mary Higgins Clark, copyright © 1989 by Mary Higgins Clark. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Max Allan Collins: “A Wreath for Marley” by Max Allan Collins, copyright © 1995. First published in Dante’s Disciples, edited by Edward Kramer and Peter Crowther; White Wolf Publishing. Reprinted by permission of Max Allan Collins and Dominick Abel Literary Agency, Inc.

Joseph Commings: “Serenade to a Killer” by Joseph Commings, copyright © 1957 by Joseph

Commings. Reprinted by permission of the Archdiocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, on behalf of the author’s sister’s estate.

Colin Dexter: “Morse’s Greatest Mystery” by Colin Dexter, copyright © 1993 by Colin Dexter. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Stanley Ellin: “Death on Christmas Eve” by Stanley Ellin, copyright © 1950 by Stanley Ellin. First appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Ed Gorman: “The Christmas Kitten” by Ed Gorman, copyright © 1997 by Ed Gorman. First published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author and Dominick Abel Literary Agency, Inc.

Ron Goulart: “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Ron Goulart, copyright © 1993 by Ron Goulart.

Cyril Hare: “Sister Bessie” by Cyril Hare, copyright © 1949 by Cyril Hare. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and A. P. Watt Ltd.

Edward D. Hoch: “The Christmas Client” by Edward D. Hoch, copyright © 1996 by Edward D. Hoch. Reprinted by permission of Patricia M. Hoch.

H. R. F. Keating: “A Present for Santa Sahib” by H. R. F. Keating, copyright © 1989 by H. R. F. Keating. Reprinted by permission of Sheila Mitchell.

Andrew Klavan: “The Killer Christian” by Andrew Klavan, copyright © 2007 by Amalgamated Metaphor. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Gillian Linscott: “A Scandal in Winter” by Gillian Linscott, copyright © 1996. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Dick Lochte: “Mad Dog” by Dick Lochte, copyright © 1993 by Dick Lochte. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Peter Lovesey: “The Haunted Crescent” by Peter Lovesey, copyright © 1989 by Peter Lovesey. Reprinted by permission of Peter Lovesey and Gelfman-Schneider Literary Agency.

Peter Lovesey: “The Proof of the Pudding” by Peter Lovesey, copyright © 1995 by Peter Lovesey. Reprinted by permission of Peter Lovesey and Gelfman-Schneider Literary Agency.

John Lutz: “The Live Tree” by John Lutz, copyright © 1989 by John Lutz. First published in Mistletoe Mysteries, edited by Charlotte MacLeod, the Mysterious Press. Reprinted by permission of John Lutz and Dominick Abel Literary Agency, Inc.

John D. MacDonald: “Dead on Christmas Street” by John D. MacDonald, copyright © 1952 by John D. MacDonald; copyright © renewed 1980 by Maynard MacDonald. Reprinted by permission of Maynard MacDonald and Diskant Associates.

Ngaio Marsh: “Death on the Air” by Ngaio Marsh, copyright © 1948. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ngaio Marsh and Aitken Alexander Associates, Ltd.

Ed McBain: “And All Through the House” by Ed McBain, copyright © 1994 by Hui Corporation. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Gelfman-Schneider Literary Agency.

Susan Moody: “More Than Flesh and Blood” by Susan Moody, copyright © 1995 by Susan Moody. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Bradford Morrow: “The Uninnocent” by Bradford Morrow, copyright © 2011 by Bradford Morrow. Reprinted by permission of the author.

John Mortimer: “Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas” by John Mortimer, copyright © 1992 by John Mortimer. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of John Mortimer and United Agents.

Norvell Page: “Crime’s Christmas Carol” by Norvell Page, copyright © 1939 by Popular Publications, Inc. First published in Detective Tales; copyright © renewed 1967 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Argosy Communications, Inc.

Sara Paretsky: “Three-Dot Po” by Sara Paretsky, copyright © 1984 by Sara Paretsky. First published in The Eyes Have It, edited by Robert J. Randisi, the Mysterious Press. Reprinted by permission of Sara Paretsky and Dominick Abel Literary Agency, Inc.

Ellis Peters: “The Price of Light” by Ellis Peters, copyright © 1979 by Ellis Peters. First published in Winter’s Crimes #11, Macmillan. Reprinted by permission of United Agents.

Ellis Peters: “The Trinity Cat” by Ellis Peters, copyright © 1976 by Ellis Peters. First published in Winter’s Crimes #8, Macmillan. Reprinted by permission of United Agents.

Ellery Queen: “The Adventure of the Dauphin’s Doll” by Ellery Queen, copyright © 1948 by The American Mercury, Inc.; copyright © renewed 1975 by Ellery Queen. Reprinted by permission of Frederic Dannay Literary Trust and the Manfred B. Lee Family Literary Property Trust, represented by Joshua Bilmes.

Mary Roberts Rinehart: “The Butler’s Christmas Eve” by Mary Roberts Rinehart, copyright © 1944 by The Mary Roberts Rinehart Literary Trust. Reprinted by permission of The Mary Roberts Rinehart Award.

Peter Robinson: “Blue Christmas” by Peter Robinson, copyright © 2005 by Eastvale Enterprises, Inc. First published by Crippen & Landru. Reprinted by permission of Peter Robinson and Dominick Abel Literary Agency, Inc.

Damon Runyon: “Dancing Dan’s Christmas” by Damon Runyon, copyright © 1932 by Damon Runyon. Copyright © 2008 by American Rights Management Co., LLC. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

Jonathan Santlofer: “The 74th Tale” by Jonathan Santlofer, copyright © 2008 by Jonathan Santlofer. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Joseph Shearing: “The Chinese Apple” by Joseph Shearing, copyright © 1949 by Joseph Shearing. Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Sharon Eden.

Rex Stout: “Christmas Party” by Rex Stout, copyright © 1957 by Rebecca Stout Bradbury and Barbara Stout; copyright © renewed 1985 by Rebecca Stout Bradbury and Barbara Stout. Reprinted by permission of Rebecca Stout Bradbury and Barbara Stout.

Julian Symons: “The Santa Claus Club” by Julian Symons, copyright © 1960 by Julian Symons. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Group, Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of Julian Symons.

Donald E. Westlake: “The Burglar and the Whatsit” by Donald E. Westlake, copyright © 1996 by Donald E. Westlake. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Donald E. Westlake and Einstein-Thompson Literary Management.

Ethel Lina White: “Waxworks” by Ethel Lina White, copyright © 1930 by Ethel Lina White. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ethel Lina White and Pollinger, Ltd.