| Anthony
Abbot - About the Murder of a Startled Lady --- About
the Murder of Geraldine Foster |
| Lydia
Adamson - A Cat in the Wings -- A Cat in the Manger -- A Cat
on the Jingle Bell Rock -- A Cat Under the Mistletoe -- A Cat Under
the Christmas Tree (Alice
Nestleton Mysteries) |
| Susan
Wittig Albert - Mistletoe Man
(A China Bayles Mystery) |
| Michael
Derek Allen - Spence and the Holiday Murders |
| David Alexander -
Shoot a Sitting Duck |
| Gary Amo -
Silent Night |
| David Jay Arts - Quiet Desperation |
| Nancy
Atherton - Aunt Dimity's Christmas |
| Rosemary
Aubert - The Feast of Stephen (Ellis
Portal Mystery) |
| Marion Babson -
The Twelve Deaths of Christmas -- Line up for Murder - Murder
on a Mystery Tour |
| Albert C.
Baantjer /H. G. Smittenaar - Murder in Amsterdam:
Two "Dekok" Adventures: "Dekok & the Sunday Strangler"
& "Dekok & the Corpse on Christmas Eve" |
| North Baker -
Dead to the World |
| David
Baldacci - The
Christmas Train |
| Brian
Battison - Christmas Bow Murder (A
DCI Jim Ashworth Mystery) |
| M.
C. Beaton - Cold Comfort --- Death of a Prankster
--- Death of a Snob - A
Highland Christmas (British
Mystery) |
| Cyril William
Beaumont - The Mysterious Toyshop |
| C. C. Benison -
Death at Sandrigham House |
| William
Bernhardt - The Midnight Before Christmas: A
Holiday Thriller |
| Laurien Berenson ~ Jingle Bell Bark |
| Gavin Black -
Dragon for Christmas |
| Charity
Blackstock - Foggy, Foggy Dew |
| Nicholas
Blake - The Corpse in the Snowman ---
Thou Shell of Death (Published
also as Shell of death) ---
The Smiler with the Knife |
| Nero
Blanc - A Crossworder's Gift ~ Wrapped Up in
Crosswords(Crossword
Mysteries) |
| J. S. Borthwick -
Dude on Arrival --- The Student Body |
| Eleanor
Boyland - Pushing Murder |
| Simon Brett -
The Christmas Crimes at Puzzle Manor |
| Carter Brown -
A Corpse for Christmas |
| Frederic
Brown - Murder can be Fun |
| Rita Mae
Brown and Sneaky Pie - Rest in Pieces |
| Abigail Browning
(Editor) - Murder Most Merry: 32
Christmas Crime Stories from the World's Best Mystery Writers |
| Leo Bruce -
Such is Death |
| Jim Burke -
A Present for Santa |
| William
John Burley - Death in Willow Pattern |
| Nick Carter -
The Christmas Kill |
| Warren
Carrier - Justice at Christmas (Suspense) |
| Thomas Chastain -
911 |
| Elliott
Chaze - Goodbye Goliath |
| George C.
Chesbro - Second Horseman Out of Eden |
| Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas --- A Christmas
Tragedy --- A Holiday for Murder --- Adventure
of the Christmas Pudding |
| Jill Churchill -
Farewell to Yarns --- Merchant of Menace ---
From Here to Paternity |
| Noel Clad -
Savage |
| Christine
E. Collier - Christmas at Cliffhanger Inn |
| Max
Allan Collins -Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides |
| Carol Higgins
Clark - Iced |
| Carol
Higgins Clark & Mary Higgins Clark - Deck The
Halls (Alvirah
Meehan/Regan Reilly) ~
The Christmas Thief |
| Mary Higgins
Clark - My Gal Sunday --- Silent
Night --- All Through the Night |
| Joan
Coggin - Who Killed the Curate? |
| Charles
Cohen - Silver Linings |
| Rex Collings -
Clerical Crimes for Christmas |
| Susan Conant -
Gone to the Dogs |
| K.C. Constatnine -
Upon Some Midnight's Clear |
| Constance
Cornish - Dead of Winter |
Cleo
Coyle - Latte Trouble (Coffeehouse
Mysteries) |
| Alisa Craig -
Murder Goes Mumming |
| Philip R.
Craig - Off Season |
| Hamilton
Crane - Starring Miss Seeton |
| Ann
Crowleigh - Murder Under the Tree (Anthology) |
| Barbara
D'Amato - Hard Christmas |
| Mary Daheim -
Alpine Christmas --- Nutty As A Fruitcake |
| Richard
Dalby - Crime for Christmas ---- Mystery for Christmas |
| Jeanne M.
Dams - The Body in the Transept |
| Joel Y.
Dane - The Christmas Tree Murders |
| Chari
Davenport - The Christmas Party |
| Frederick
Davis Drag the Dark |
| Mildred
Davis -Tell Them What's Her Name Called --- Three Minutes
to Midnight |
| Janet
Dawson - Nobody's Child |
| Spencer
Dean - Credit for a Murder |
| William
DeAndrea - Killed on the Ice |
| Mark
de Castrique ~ Grave Undertaking |
| Mary-Jane
Deeb ~ A Christmas Mystery in Provence |
| Colin Dexter -
The Secret of Annexe 3 |
| Carter Dickson
- The White Priory Murders |
| Diplomat
[John Franklin Carter] - The Corpse on the White House Lawn |
| Joanne
Dobson - Quieter Than Sleep |
| Deborah
Donnelly - Died to Match ---
May
the Best Man Die
(Wedding
Planner Mystery) |
| Carole Nelson
Douglas - Cat in a Golden Garland |
| Todd Downing -
The Last Trumpet |
| Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle |
| John Keith
Drummond - 'Tis the Season to Be Dying |
| James Duffy -
The Christmas Gang |
| Richard
Dalby - Crime for Christmas --- Mystery for Christmas |
| Sophie Dunbar
- Shiveree (Story line is during Christmas
time) |
| Carola Dunn -
Death at Wentwater Court -- Mistletoe
and Murder |
| Mary
Durham - Keeps Death His Court |
| Mignon G.
Eberhart - Postmark Murder |
| Lesley Egan -
Crime for Christmas |
| Cyprian
Ekwensi - Restless City and Christmas Gold |
| Steve Englehart -
Christmas Countdown |
| Janet
Evanovich -Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie
Plum Series) |
| Joseph Jefferson
Farjeon - Mystery in White |
| E. X. Ferrars -
The Small World of Murder --- Smoke without Fire |
| Monica
Ferris ~
Crewel Yule
( A Needlecraft Mystery) |
| Jessica
and Donald Bain Fletcher - A Little Yuletide
Murder --- Manhattans and Murder |
| Joanne
Fluke - Sugar Cookie Murder |
| Brian Flynn -
The Murders Near Mapleton |
| Rae Foley -
Hundreth Door - Where is Mary Bostwick? |
| Leslie Ford -
The Simple Way of Poison |
| Margaret
Frazier - The Servant's Tale - The
Novice's Tale |
| Shelley
Freydont ~ Merry Little Murder |
| Sara
Hoskinson Frommer ~ Witness in Bishop Hill (Joan
Spencer mystery) - mystery takes place
during the Lucia celebration in a tiny Swedish-American village
in Illinois |
| Clyde
Bowman Furst - The Observations of Professor
Maturin |
| John Gano -
Inspector Proby's Christmas |
| Jostein
Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery |
| A.H. Garnet -
Santa Claus Killer |
| Anne George -
Murder on a Bad Hair Day |
| Jonathan
Goodman ~ The Christmas Murders (True
Crime/H-Christmas) |
| Robert Gouze -
A Quiet Game of Bambu |
| Sue Grafton -
E. is for Evidence |
| Pamela
Thomas-Graham - Orange Crushed |
| Ann Granger -
A Season for Murder |
| Sarah
Graves - Wreck the Halls (Home
Repair Is Homicide Mystery) |
| Andrew M.
Greeley - Star Bright! A Christmas Story |
| Christine
Green - Deadly Partners |
Susanna
Gregory - A Conspiracy of Violence (historical
mystery) |
| Martha Grimes -
Jerusalem Inn --- Man with a Load of Mischief --- Old Fox Deceived |
| Victor Gunn -
Death on Shivering Sand |
| Sally
Gunning - Ice Water |
| |
| Jane
Haddam - A Stillness in Bethlehem ---
Festival of Deaths --- Not A Creature Was Stirring
--- Fountain of Death |
| Jean
Hager - The Last Noel |
| Robert
Lee Hall - Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas
Murder (Historical Mystery) |
| Dashiel
Hammett - The Thin Man |
| Cyril
Hare - An English Murder |
| Richard
Hardwick - Season to be Deadly |
| Glenna
Hartwell /A. R. E. Press Editors - Christmas Story:
As Told by Edgar Cayce |
| Lee
Harris - The Christmas Night Murder |
| Carolyn
G. Hart - Sugarplum Dead (A
Death on Demand Mystery) |
| Ellen
Hart - Vital Lies --- Murder in the Air |
| Charlaine
Harris - Shakespeare's Christmas |
| Janis
Harrison -
Murder Sets Seed |
| Karen
Harper - The Queene's Christmas (An Elizabeth I Mystery) |
| M
Doriel Hay - The Santa Klaus Murder |
| Tim
Heald - Classic Christmas Crime |
| Sandra
Heath - Mistletoe Mischief |
| Tim
Hemlin - A Catered Christmas |
| Joan
Hess - A Holly, Jolly Murder -- - O Little Town
of Maggody |
| Georgette
Heyer - Envious Casca |
| Reginald
Hill - Death's Jest-Book |
| Isabell
Holland - Fatal Advent |
| Joyce
Holms - Thin Ice (Fizz and Buchanan mysteries)
UK ed. |
| Dee
Holmes - The Unexpected Gift |
| Edith
Howie - Murder for Christmas |
| John
Howlett - The Christmas Spy |
| Cledwyn
Hughes - The Different Drummer --- The Inn Closes
for Christmas |
| Fergus
Hume - The Coin of Edward VII |
| Alan
Hunter - Landed Gently |
| Fred
Hunter - Ransom for a Holiday |
| Jack
Iams - Do Not Murder Before Christmas |
| Michael
Innes - A Comedy of Terrors |
| Karen
Irving - Jupiter's Daughter |
| Mike
Jahn - Murder on Fifth Avenue (Bill Donovan
Mystery) |
| Cathie
John - Add One Dead Critic |
| Cathleen
Jordan - A Carol in the Dark |
| Jennifer
Jordan - Murder Under the Mistletoe |
| Henry
Kane - A Corpse for Christmas |
| Fred
E. Katz - Not A Creature Was Stirring |
| M.
M. Kaye - Death in the Andamans |
| Faye
Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman - Double Homicide
- (Boston & Santa Fe) both novels take place around Christmas
|
Lee
Charles Kelley - 'Twas The Bite Before Christmas |
| Mary
Kelly - The Christmas Egg |
| Toni
L.P. Kelner - Mad as the Dickens |
| Stepen
Kendrick- Night Watch (Sherlock Holmes
meets Father Brown) |
| Laurie
R. King - A Monstrous Regiment of Women |
Henry
Kisor - Season's Revenge : A Christmas Mystery
|
| Clifford
Henry Benn Kitchin - Crime at Christmas |
| Lisa
Kleinholz - Exiles on Main Street |
| Alanna
Knight
- The Dagger in the Crown (Historical
Mystery) |
| Kathleen
Moore Knight - They're Going To Kill Me |
| Stephen
Knight - Corpse at the Opera House Crimes
for a Summer Christmas Ser. Series #3 - Murder at Home:
Crimes for a Summer Christmas #4 - More
Crimes for a Summer Christmas |
| Edward
Koch - Murder on 34th Street |
| Dean
R. Koontz - Mister Murder (thriller) |
| |
| M.
D. Lake - A Gift For Murder --- Grave
Choices |
| Marcia
Landreth - The Holiday Murders |
| Jane
Langton - The Shortest Day --- Murder at the Revels
--- The Memorial Hall Murder |
| Emma
Lathen - Banking on Death |
| Hilda
Lawrence - Blood Upon the Snow |
| Treat
Lawrence - Q As In Quicksand |
| Joan
G Levine / Gail Owens - Santa Claus Mystery |
| Ted
Jack Lewis - Carter's Law |
| Nancy
Livingston - Quiet Murder |
| William
John Locke - A Christmas Mystery |
| Richard
Lockridge - Dead Run |
| Manning
Long - Vicious Circle |
| Charlotte
Macleod - The Convivial Codfish --- Murder Goes Mumming
--- Rest You Merry |
| Rhett
MacPherson - Comedy of Heirs |
| Jeffery
Marks - A Canine Christmas (with
Joe Blades) |
| Valerie
S. Malmont - Death, Snow and Mistletoe (Tori
Miracle) |
| Amanda
Matetsky - Murder Is a Girl's Best Friend (Paige
Turner Mysteries) |
| Bill
Marantz - Christmas Eve Can Kill You |
| Margaret
Maron - Corpus Christmas (Lt.
Sigrid Harald Mystery) |
| Carole
Marsh - Haunted Christmas Tree Mystery ---
The
White House Christmas Mystery (Carole Marsh Mysteries) |
|
Ngaio
Marsh - Tied Up In Tinsel
|
| Ed
McBain - And All Through the House --- Downtown
--- The Pusher --- Sadie When She Died --- Ghosts |
| Helen
McCloy - Mr. Splitfoot --- Burn This |
| James
McClure - The Gooseberry Fool |
| Donna
M. McFadden - Escape From Yesterday (briefly,
one short scene takes place on Christmas) |
| Jill
McGown - Murder at the Old Vicarage |
| Leslie
Meier - Mail Order Murder -- Christmas Cookie Murder ---
Mistletoe Murder
(A Lucy Stone Mystery) |
| Doris
R. Meredith - Murder by Sacrilege |
| David
William Meredith - Christmas Card Murders |
| Jahn
Michael - Murder on Fifth Avenue |
| Alan
Alexander Milne - A Table Near The Band -- Christmas
Party |
| Valerie
Miner - Murder in the English Department |
|
Patricia
Moyes - Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Unseasonable
Demises --- Season of Snows and Sins
|
| Magdalen
Naab -Death of an Englishman |
| Anne
Nash - Said With Flowers |
| Hugh
L. Nelson - The Season for Murder |
| Joan
Nixon - The Christmas Eve Mystery |
| Robert
Norden - Death Beneath the Christmas Tree |
| Carol
O'Connell - Judas Child |
| Sr.
C. A. O'Marie - Murder in Ordinary Time ---
A Novena for Murder |
|
|
| Katherine
Hall Page - A Body in Boullion --- Body in the Big
Apple (Faith Fairchild Culinary Mystery) |
| Robert
B. Parker - The Widening Gyre |
| Jack Pearl -
Victims |
| Joanne
Pence - Two Cooks A-Killling (Angie Amalfi mystery)
- |
| Anne
Perry - A Christmas Journey (historical) - A Christmas
Guest |
| Ellis Peters
- A Rare Bendedictine --- Raven in the Foregate |
| Scott Phillips -
The Ice Harvest |
| Bill Pomidor -
Mind over Murder |
| Mary Monica
Pulver - Original Sin |
| Ellery
Queen - Calamity Town --- Cat of Many Tails --- The
Egyptian Cat Mystery --- The Finishing Stroke |
| Patrick
Quentin - Follower |
| Randy
Rawls - Jingle's Christmas (Arthur Conan
Edwards (Ace), Dallas PI) |
| Robert
Ray - Merry Christmas, Murdock |
| Richard
Reinsmith - Body for Christmas
Bodyguard Ser. |
| Phil Rickman
- Midwinter of the Spirit (Supernatural crime) |
| Ann Ripley
- The Christmas Garden Affair |
| S. K. Rizzolo
- The Rose in the Wheel (Regency Mystery) |
| J.D. Robb -
Holiday in Death (furturistic police procedural - woman
detective) |
| Gillian
Roberts - Philly Stakes --- The Mummer's Curse |
| Peter Robinson -
Past Reason Hated |
| Elliot
Roosevelt - White House Pantry Murder |
| Jennifer
Rowe - Death in Store ---
Love Lies Bleeding: Crimes for a Summer Christmas 5 |
| Jane Rubino -
FruitCake |
| Patrick
Ruell - Red Christmas |
| Mary
Saums - When The Last Magnolia Weeps (Private
eye Willi Taft gets in the holiday spirit at a Celtic Christmas
concert) |
| Corrine
Holt Sawyer - HoHo Homicide |
| Aileen
Schumacher - Framework for Death |
| M. R. Sellars
- Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation |
| David Serafin -
Christmas Rising |
| Dell Shannon -
No Holiday for Crime |
| Celestine
Sibley - Spider in the Sink: A Kate Mulcay Mystery |
| George
Simenon - Maigret's Christmas (foreign
mystery) |
| Barbara
Burnett Smith - Mistletoe from the Purple Sage |
| George
Harmon Smith - The Christmas Angel |
| Joan Smith -
Don't Leave Me This Way |
| Margie
& Amand Smoak - Generals' Row |
| Patricia
H. Sprinkle - Mystery Bred in Buckhead |
| Jonathan
Stagge - The Yellow Taxi |
| Denise
Swanson - Murder of a Barbie and Ken (Thanksgiving
with a touch of the whole Christmas craziness) |
| Marcia
Talley ~ Occasion of Revenge (Hannah Ives Mystery) |
| Elizabeth
A. Taylor - Cable Car Murder |
| Sarah
Stewart Taylor - O Artful Death |
| Carlene
Thompson - The Way You Look Tonight
(thriller) |
| John
Tooke - On the Twelfth Day of Christmas |
| Leonard
D. Tourney - Knaves Templar |
| Peter Tremayne
(aka Peter Berresford Ellis) - The Haunted
Abbot (Sister Fidelma - Historical Mystery) |
| Kathy Hogan
Trochede - Midnight Clear |
| Michael
Underwood - Party to Murder |
| Barry Unsworth
- Morality Play |
| Jean Van
Leeuwen - The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper |
| John Wainwright -
Life & Times of Christmas Calvert . . . Assassin
(Nightingale Ser. ) |
| Mary V
Welk -Deadly Little Christmas ( A Caroline Rhodes Mystery) |
| Charlene
Weir ~ A Cold Christmas (Chief of Police Susan Wren)
|
| Chassie
West - Killer Chameleon - mention of Christmas
in storyline |
| R.D. Wingfield -
Frost At Christmas |
| David Wishart
- Last Rites (Historical Mystery) - Set at Saturnalia
which corresponds with Christmas |
| Valerie
Wolzien - Tis the Season to Be Jolly --- We Wish You
A Merry Murder --- Deck the Halls With Murder |
| James Yaffe
- Mom Meets Her Maker |
| Elizabeth
York - House of the Enchantress |
| |
| Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides ~ Max Allan
Collins |
| A
Canine Christmas - Jeffery Marks (with
Joe Blades) |
| A Classic Christmas Crime ~ Tim Heald, et al. (Contemporary) |
| Cat
Crimes for the Holidays (Contemporary- Thanksgiving /Hanukkah
/Christmas) - Martin Greenberg (Ed.) |
| Crime
for Christmas -- Mistletoe and Mayhem -- Mystery for
Christmas -- Richard Dalby (Ed.)
|
This
Christmas - Jane Green, Jennifer Coburn and
Liz Ireland |
| Christmas
Stalkings --- Mistletoe Mysteries - Charlotte Macleod (Ed.)
|
| Christmas
Present Mystery - Marion Markham / M. McCully / Emily
Arnold |
| Crooks,
Crimes, and Christmas - Susan Slater, Ed Gorman, Irene
Marcuse, Michael Jahn Saving Louisa - Clyde Linsley [begins
before Christmas and continues through Mardi Gras (in New Orleans.)] |
| A Crossworder's Holiday ~ Nero Blanc (Contemporary)
(A Mystery with Crosswords) |
| Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine: The First 50 Years, the 50 Best
Stories - Eleanor Sullivan |
| Holmes for the Holidays / More Holmes for the Holidays
~ Martin H. Greenberg, et al. (Anthology/Mystery/H-Victorian/Christmas)
(Sherlock Holmes) |
| How
Still We See Thee Lie ~ Allana Martin, Connie Shelton, Elizabeth
Gunn, Tom Mitcheltree (Anthology/Mystery-Christmas) |
| Homicide
for the Holidays (Wwl Mystery) -
Jane Rubino, Kathleen Anne Barrett, Fred Hunter |
| The
Last Noel -- Steve Brewer, Catherine Dain, Mat Coward and Linda
Berry |
| Maigret's Christmas ~ Georges Simenon (Anthology/Mystery/Police-Christmas) |
| Merry
Murder --- Murder Under the Mistletoe - Murder at Christmas -
Mystery for Christmas Cynthia Manson (Ed.)
|
| Mistletoe Mysteries ~ Alisa Craig, et al. (Contemporary) |
| Mistletoe
and Mayhem - Katherine Hall Page, Joanne Pence, Christie Ridgway
and Judi McCoy - |
| Murder
for Christmas --- Murder for Christmas II - Thomas
Godfrey (Ed.) Agatha
Christie, Ellery Queen, Charles Dickens and Woody Allen. |
Murder
Mayhem and Mistletoe - Wendi Lee, Aileen Schumacher,
Terence Faherty and Bill Crider |
| Murder
Most Merry: Six Christmas
Mysteries -
Barbara Block / J. Dayne Lamb / Garrison Allen
/James R. McCahery / Toni L. P. Kelner / J.F. Trainor |
| Murder
Under the Mistletoe: And Other Stories
- Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Murder
Under the Tree - Ann Crowleigh, Connie Feddersen, J. Dayne
Lamb |
| Mystery
for Christmas: And
Other Stories -
Patricia Moyes / John D. MacDonald / Margery Allingham
/ Rex Stout / George Baxt / Anthony Boucher |
| Mystery for Christmas: An Anthology of Murder and
Mistletoe ~ Richard Dalby |
| The
New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The
Night Before Christmas & The Darlington Substitution, Vol. 25
(audio) -
Boucher, Anthony / Bruce, Nigel / Rathbone, Basil |
| Santa
Clues - - Martin Greenberg (Ed.) |
| Silent Night ~ J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes
(Anthology/Mystery/Romance/Contemporary/A/S/Police-Near Future) |
| 'Tis
the Season for Murder: Christmas
Crimes
- Fred Hunter / Walter Satterthwaite / Barbara Burnett
Smith |
| Twelve
Crimes of Christmas - Isaac Asimov
/ Martin H. Greenberg / Carol-Lynn R. Waugh |
| Who
Killed Father Christmas : And
Other Unseasonable Demises -
Patricia Moyes |
| |