Advent Calendar Day 12

 

Now, I know perfectly well that the mystery part of my mysteries aren't necessarily what keeps readers enthralled with my work. That said, a lot of you, like me, DO really love the mystery elements. Like me, you were mystery readers from the time you could, well, read. And, like me, a lot of you mystery readers love CLASSIC mysteries--which means at this time of year, you have a hankering for good old classic yuletide homicide.

Because what could be cozier than murder and mayhem beneath the mistletoe? 

So here's my perhaps obscure but personally curated list of Classic Christmas Crime. ;-)

THE SANTA KLAUS MURDER by Mavis Doriel Hay (1936)

THE BLACK-HEADED PINS by Constance and Gwenyth Little (1938)

MYSTERY IN WHITE by J. Jefferson Farjeon (1938)

A CHRISTMAS PARTY - AKA ENVIOUS CASCA  by Georgett Heyer (1941)

ANOTHER LITTLE CHRISTMAS MURDER by Lorna Nicoll Morgan (1947)

MURDER FOR CHRISTMAS by Frances Duncan (1949)

MURDER TAKES THE VEIL by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1957)

(This might not actually take place at Christmas, but I read it at Christmas when I was in High School)