Post by Salzmank on Dec 11, 2019 20:09:58 GMT
I don’t think Hercule Poirot’s Christmas is in Agatha Christie’s top tier (kinda falls apart at the end, especially character-wise), but it’s OK. The buildup is good.
Not exactly Christmas, but wintry: Christie’s The Sittaford Mystery is quite good.
John Dickson Carr’s “Blind Man’s Hood” (short story) isn’t, er, a straight detective story, but it’s a masterpiece, reminiscent of the Christmas party sequence from the movie Dead of Night (1945). Probably my favorite thing he ever wrote. Available in the recent Black Lizard Book of Locked-Room Mysteries.
H.C. Bailey’s excellent, sinister “The Unknown Murderer” is set at a Christmas party, but Christmas is not particularly relevant to the plot. Highly recommended, though.
Gladys Mitchell wrote two Christmas-set mysteries: Dead Men’s Morris, recently republished as Death Comes at Christmas, and Groaning Spinney, republished as Murder in the Snow. I haven’t read either, and though I’m a great Mitchell fan, keep in mind that she’s an acquired taste.
Not exactly Christmas, but wintry: Christie’s The Sittaford Mystery is quite good.
John Dickson Carr’s “Blind Man’s Hood” (short story) isn’t, er, a straight detective story, but it’s a masterpiece, reminiscent of the Christmas party sequence from the movie Dead of Night (1945). Probably my favorite thing he ever wrote. Available in the recent Black Lizard Book of Locked-Room Mysteries.
H.C. Bailey’s excellent, sinister “The Unknown Murderer” is set at a Christmas party, but Christmas is not particularly relevant to the plot. Highly recommended, though.
Gladys Mitchell wrote two Christmas-set mysteries: Dead Men’s Morris, recently republished as Death Comes at Christmas, and Groaning Spinney, republished as Murder in the Snow. I haven’t read either, and though I’m a great Mitchell fan, keep in mind that she’s an acquired taste.