A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL, OCTOBER 2013
Introductions and compilation copyright © 2013 by Otto Penzler
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
The big book of Christmas mysteries / edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-345-80298-9 (trade pbk.)—ISBN 978-0-345-80299-6 (ebook)
1. Christmas stories. 2. Detective and mystery stories.
I. Penzler, Otto, editor of compilation.
PN6071.C6B515 2013
808.8’0334—dc23 2013014764
Cover design by Joe Montgomery
Cover images: Cover of the February 1938 edition of the U.S. magazine “The Country Home,” by Al Parker, Modern Graphic History Library, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries; holly © CSA Images/Printstock Collection/Getty Images
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