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Christmas		  
Lydia Adamson:
     A Cat in the Manger: An Alice Nestleton Mystery
     A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock: An Alice Nestleton Mystery
     A Cat Under the Mistletoe: An Alice Nestleton Mystery
Susan Wittig Albert:  
     Rueful Death: A China Bayles Mystery
     Mistletoe Man: A China Bayles Mysery
Spence and the Holiday Murders  Michael Allen
Aunt Dimity's Christmas  Nancy Atherton
The Feast of Stephen: An Ellis Portal Mystery  Rosemary Aubert
"Dekok & the Corpse on Christmas Eve" in Murder in Amsterdam  Albert C. Baantjer
The Twelve Deaths of Christmas  Marian Babson
A Little Yuletide Murder: A Murder She Wrote Mystery  Donald Bain
Deadly Promise  Mignon F. Ballard
Death in a Cold Climate  Robert Barnard
M.C. Beaton:
     Death of a Snob
     A Highland Christmas
Death at Sandringham House: Her Majesty Investigates...  C.C. Benison
"Thou Shell of Death" in Nicholas Blake Treasury  Nicholas Blake
J.S. Borthwick:
     Dude on Arrival
     The Student Body
Pushing Murder: A Clara Gamadge Mystery  Eleanor Boylan
Dead of Winter  Forbes Bramble
Christmas Crimes at Puzzel Manor  Simon Brett
W.J. Burley:
     Death in Willow Pattern
     Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin
911  Thomas Chastain
Second Horseman Out of Eden  George C. Chesbro
"A Christmas Tragedy" in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
Jill Churchill:
     Farewell to Yarns: A Jane Jeffry Mystery
     From Here to Paternity: A Jane Jeffry Mystery
     Merchant of Menace: A Jane Jeffry Mystery
Iced  Carol Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark:
     All Through the Night
     Deck the Halls
Gone to the Dogs  Susan Conant
Upon Some Midnights Clear: A Mario Balzic Mystery  K.C. Constantine
Starring Miss Seeton  Hamilton Crane
No Word From Winifred  Amanda Cross
Mary Daheim:
     Alpine Christmas
     Nutty as a Fruitcake
Hard Christmas: A Cat Marsala Mystery  Barbara D'Amato
The Body in the Transept: A Dorothy Martin Mystery  Jeanne M. Dams
Cat in a Golden Garland: A Midnight Louie Mystery  Carole Nelson Douglas
'Tis the Season to be Dying  John Keith Drummond
Mistletoe and Murder: A Daisy Dalrumple Mystery  Carola Dunn
Visions of Sugar Plums  Janet Evanovich
E.X. Ferrars:
     The Crime and the Crystal
     The Small World of Murder
     Smoke Without Fire
The Nine Bright Shiners  Anthea Fraser
The Servant's Tale  Margaret Frazer
Inspector Proby's Christmas  John Gano
E is For Evidence  Sue Grafton
A Season for Murder: A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery  Ann Granger
Wreck the Halls  Sarah Graves
Deadly Partners: A Kate Kinsella Mystery  Christine Green
Martha Grimes:
     Jerusalem Inn
     The Man With a Load of Mischief
Jane Haddam:
     Not a Creature Was Stirring: A Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mystery
     A Stillness in Bethlehem
The Last Noel: An Iris House B&B Mystery  Jean Hager
A Puzzle in a Pear Tree  Parnell Hall
Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder  Robert Lee Hall
Shakespeare's Christmas  Charlaine Harris
Murder Sets Seed  Janis Harrison
Sugarplum Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery  Carolyn G. Hart
Joan Hess:
     A Holly, Jolly Murder: A Claire Malloy Mystery
     O Little Town of Maggody
Envious Casca  Georgette Heyer
A Fatal Advent  Isabelle Holland
Landed Gently  Alan Hunter
Ransom For a Holiday: A Jeremy Ransom/Emily Charters Mystery  Fred Hunter
Chestnut Mare, Beware  Jody Jaffe
Murder on Fifth Avenue: A Bill Donovan Mystery  Mike Jahn
A Carol in the Dark  Cathleen Jordan
Mad as the Dickens  Toni L.P. Kelner
Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown  Stephen Kendrick
The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels  Jane Langton
Quiet Murder  Nancy Livingston
Dead Run: An Inspector Heimrich Mystery  Richard Lockridge
Charlotte MacLeod:
     The Convivial Codfish
     Mistletoe Mysteries
     Rest You Merry
Comedy of Heirs  Rett MacPherson
Corpus Christmas  Margaret Maron
Tied up in Tinsel  Ngaio Marsh
Ed McBain:  
     And All Through the House  
     Downtown  
The Gooseberry Fool  James McClure
Murder at the Old Vicarage Jill McGown
Cooked Goose  G.A. McKevett
Christmas Cookie Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery  Leslie Meier
Season of Snows and Sins  Patricia Moyes
There's Nothing to be Afraid of  Marcia Muller
Death of an Englishman  Magdalen Nabb
Death's Bright Angel  Janet Neel
Judas Child  Carol O'Connell
Carol Anne O'Marie:
     Advent of Dying
     Murder in Ordinary Time
The Body in the Bouillon  Katherine Hall Page
The Dons & Mr. Dickens: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot  William J. Palmer
Rich, Radiant Slaughter  Orania Papazoglou
A Rare Benedictine  Ellis Peters
Original Sin  Mary Monica Pulver
Merry Christmas, Murdock  Robert J. Ray
Haunt of the Nightingale  John R. Riggs
The Christmas Garden Affair: A Gardening Mystery   Ann Ripley
Holiday in Death  J.D. Robb
Philly Stakes  Gillian Roberts
Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery  Peter Robinson
The White House Pantry Murder: An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery  Elliott Roosevelt
Death in Store  Jennifer Rowe
Ho-Ho-Homicide  Corinne Holt Sawyer
No Holiday For Crime  Dell Shannon
Spider in the Sink: A Kate Mulcay Mystery  Celestine Sibley
Mistletoe From Purple Sage  Barbara Burnett Smith
The Cable Car Murder  Elizabeth Atwood Taylor
Midnight Clear: A Callahan Garrity Mystery  Kathy Hogan Trocheck
A Party to Murder  Michael Underwood
A Cold Christmas  Charlene Weir
Frost at Christmas (audio book) R.D. Wingfield
The Man Who Changed His Name   Eric Wright
Mom Meets Her Maker  James Yaffe

Short Stories		  
Cat Crimes For the Holidays
A Classic Christmas Crime
Holmes For the Holidays
Mistletoe Mysteries
Murder For Christmas


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Labor Day		  
Labor Day Murder  Lee Harris
Highland Laddie Gone  Sharyn McCrumb
 
Yom Kippur  
The Yom Kippur Murder  Lee  Harris
Day of Atonement  Faye Kellerman
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry  Harry Kemelman 

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Halloween  
Post-Mortem Effects  Thomas Boyle
Rest in Pieces  Rita Mae Brown
Wycliffe and the Scapegoat  W. J. Burley
The Wizard of La-La Land  R. Wright Campbell
The Hallowe’en Party  Agatha Christie
Silver Scream  Mary Daheim
Died to Match  Deborah Donnelly
Cat With an Emerald Eye  Carole Nelson Douglas
Halloween Murder  Shelley Freydont
A Few Dying Words  Paula Gosling
Skeleton Key  Jane Haddam
Long Time No See  Susan Isaacs
Murder Among Us  Jonnie Jacobs
Nightmare in Shining Armor  Tamar Myers
Twilight  Nancy Pickard
Dance of the Scarecrows  Ray Sipherd
Strange Brew  Kathy Hogan Trochek

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General  
A Good Year for Murder  A. E. Eddenden
The Holiday Murders  Martha Landreth
 
Thanksgiving  
Fowl Prey  Mary Daheim
Sins Out of School  Jeanne M. Dams
The Raven and the Nightingale  Joanne Dobson
The Beverly Malibu  Katherine V. Forrest
The Piano Man  Noreen Gilpatrick
Doctor Makes a Dollhouse Call  Robin Hathaway
That Day the Rabbi Left Town  Harry Kemelman
Celt and Pepper  Ralph McInerny
Snipe Hunt  Sarah Shaber

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Hannukah  
Festival of Deaths  Jane Haddam 
 
New Year's  
Touch of the Past  Jon L. Breen
Murder Goes Mumming  Alisa Craig 
Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt  Carole Nelson Douglas

Stress  Loren D. Estleman
Seascape with Dead Figures  Roy Hart
The Dishonest Murderer  Frances and Richard Lockridge
Calamity Town  Ellery Queen
The Mummer’s Curse  Gillian Roberts
   
Valentine's Day  
Love Lies Bleeding  Susan Wittig Albert
How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams  Dorothy Cannell
The Saint Valentine’s Day Murders  Ruth Dudley Edwards
Bleeding Hearts  Jane Haddam
Deadly Valentine  Carolyn G. Hart
Valentine Murder  Leslie Meier
Valentine  Tom Savage
 

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Last updated March 23, 2006 by Courtney Moore (cmoore@wppl.org).