Adventure of the Christmas pudding / Agatha Christie -- Gold, Frankincense and murder / Catherine Aird -- Boxing unclever / Robert Barnard -- Proof of the pudding / Peter Lovesey -- Adventure of the Dauphin's doll / Ellery Queen -- Morse's greatest mystery / Colin Dexter -- More than flesh and blood / Susan Moody -- Butler's Christmas eve / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Trinity cat / Ellis Peters -- Burglar and the whatsit / Donald E. Westlake -- Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Ron Goulart -- Thieves who couldn't help sneezing / Thomas Hardy -- Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas / John Mortimer -- A reversible Santa Clause / Meredith Nicholson -- A scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott -- Christmas client / Edward D. Hoch -- Secret in the pudding bag & Herlock Sholmes's Christmas case / Peter Todd -- Christmas Eve / S.C. Roberts -- Adventure of the blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Dead on Christmas street / John D. MacDonald -- Crime's Christmas carol / Norvell Page -- Serenade to a killer / Joseph Commings / The haunted crescent / Peter Lovesey -- A Christmas in camp / Edmund Cox -- Christmas Bogey / Pat Frank -- Killer Christian / Andrew Klavan -- Ghost's touch / Fergus Hume -- A wreath for Marley / Max Allan Collins.

The carol singers / Josephine Bell -- Waxworks / Ethel Lina White -- Cambric tea / Marjorie Bowen -- The 74th tale / Jonathan Santlofer -- The uninnocent / Bradford Morrow -- Blue Christmas / Peter Robinson -- Noel, noel / Barry Perowne -- Death on Christmas Eve / Stanley Ellin -- The Chinese apple / Joseph Shearing -- And all through the house / Ed McBain -- An early Christmas / Doug Allyn -- The live tree / John Lutz -- Three-dot Po / Sara Paretsky -- Mad dog / Dick Lochte -- Sister Bessie / Cyril Hare -- That's the ticket / Mary Higgins Clark -- Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh -- The thirteenth day of Christmas / Isaac Asimov / The Christmas kitten / Ed Gorman -- The Santa Claus club / Julian Symons -- The flying stars / G.K. Chesterton -- Christmas party / Rex Stout -- The Raffles relics / E.W. Hornung -- The price of light / Ellis Peters -- A present for Santa Sahib / H.R.F. Keating -- The Christmas train / Will Scott -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A chaparral Christmas gift / O. Henry -- The Chopham affair / Edgar Wallace -- A Christmas tragedy / Agatha Christie.