Christmas shopping isn't the only thing that's murder this year! It's homicide for the holidays as Signet delivers this delightful mystery anthology. So let slay bells ring and cyanide-spiked eggnog flow on this nasty Noel--and what is that strange ticking sound coming from that beautifully wrapped gift? Authors include Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Georges Simenon, and nine others. Original. Winter's tale / Ann Cleeves -- To wake the dead / John Dickson Carr -- Theft of Santa's beard / Edward D. Hoch -- Believing in Santa / Ron Goulart -- Case is altered / Margery Allingham -- Maigret's Christmas / Georges Simenon -- Appalachian blackmail / Jacqueline Vivelo -- Grist for the mills of Christmas / James Powell -- Inspector Tierce and the Christmas visits / Jeffry Scott -- Pass the parcel / Peter Lovesey -- Never two without three; or, a Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie -- Ghost of Christmas past / Robert Richardson. Ellery Queen's mystery magazine Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazine Edited by Cynthia Manson.