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Title:
Murder, mayhem and mistletoe / Terence Faherty, Aileen Schumacher, Wendi Lee, Bill Crider.
ISBN:
9780373264018
Publication Information:
Toronto ; New York : Worldwide, 2001.
Physical Description:
378 pages ; 18 cm
General Note:
"Crimes at Christmas from four popular mystery writers"--Cover.
Contents:
The headless magi / Terence Faherty -- Christmas cache / Aileen Schumacher -- Stocking stuffer / Wendi Lee -- The empty manger / Bill Crider.
Summary:
This book includes four mysteries regarding crimes at Christmas from four popular mystery writers. Mystery # 1:The Headless Magi in which Terence Faherty's metaphysical sleuth, Owen Keane, is working at a crisis phone line in New Jersey, where several alarming calls from a young boy coincide with vandalism at a local Nativity scene, bringing a thought-provoking mystery home for the holidays. Mystery # 2: Christmas Cache in which Aileen Schumacher's New Mexico engineer and amateur sleuth, Tory Travers, agrees to let her teenage son house-sit at the local university's experimental solar-heated home and ends up with a challenging Christmas puzzle - a mysterious shooting, a backyard full of buried cash, and original paintrings even she can recognize. Mystery #3: Stocking Stuffer by Wendi Lee's whose Boston P.I., Angela Matelli, who is doing undercover security work during the holiday shopping rush, struggles to clear a woman accused of killing her ex-husband in a mystery filled with enough bizarre twists for an unexpected unwrapping of a Christmas killer. Mystery #4: The Empty Manger in which Bill Crider's sheriff, Dan Rhodes, has his hands full with a "living" manger scene downtown when the body of the local councilwoman is found nearby. Rhodes has a suspect list as long as a string of Christmas lights --but it's old-fashioned horse sesnse that leads to a surprises killer.
OCLC Number:
ocm48448127
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