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A collection of deck: Christmas-themed whodunits and adventure stories

By David Martindale Otto Penzler, editor of The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, has a theory why so many crime fiction writers “have turned their pens and wicked thoughts to this time of year.”He believes it’s for the shock value.“Violence seems so out of character, so inappropriate, for this time of year that it takes on extra weight,” he notes in his Big Book, which turns Christmas Eve into Christmas Evil.

 

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