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A review by carolsnotebook
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories by Francis Durbridge, Carter Dickson, Cyril Hare, Donald Stuart, Julian Symons, Ronald Knox, E.C.R. Lorac, Baroness Orczy, Selwyn Jepson, Martin Edwards, John Bude, John Bingham
4.0
I thoroughly enjoyed the storied in The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. Each short story/mystery is set around Christmas, but aside from that one connecting feature, it’s a great variety, from typical whodunnits, to spy stories, to a ghost story.
The stories are as follows:
“A Christmas Tragedy” by Baroness Orczy
“By the Sword” by Selwyn Jepson
“The Christmas Card Crime” by Donald Stuart
“The Motive” by Ronald Knox
“Blind Man’s Hood” by Carter Dickson
“Paul Temple’s White Christmas” by Francis Durbridge
“Sister Bessie” or “Your Old Leech” by Cyril Hare
“A Bit of Wire Pulling” by E.C.R. Lorac
“Pattern of Revenge” by John Bude
“Crime at Lark Cottage” by John Bingham
“‘Twixt the Cup and the Lip” by Julian Symons
Most of the authors were new to me, but there wasn’t really a bad one in the bunch. Granted, some are better than others, as in any collection, but there’s none that I felt should have been left out. To be honest, I’d be happy to find any of the British Library’s Crime anthologies under the Christmas tree.
The stories are as follows:
“A Christmas Tragedy” by Baroness Orczy
“By the Sword” by Selwyn Jepson
“The Christmas Card Crime” by Donald Stuart
“The Motive” by Ronald Knox
“Blind Man’s Hood” by Carter Dickson
“Paul Temple’s White Christmas” by Francis Durbridge
“Sister Bessie” or “Your Old Leech” by Cyril Hare
“A Bit of Wire Pulling” by E.C.R. Lorac
“Pattern of Revenge” by John Bude
“Crime at Lark Cottage” by John Bingham
“‘Twixt the Cup and the Lip” by Julian Symons
Most of the authors were new to me, but there wasn’t really a bad one in the bunch. Granted, some are better than others, as in any collection, but there’s none that I felt should have been left out. To be honest, I’d be happy to find any of the British Library’s Crime anthologies under the Christmas tree.