Daily Archives: December 10, 2016

“Christmas Stalkings” is a reprint of a collection of Christmas mysteries which was first published in 1991. The authors were some of my favorites then and still remain so today, even though a few of them have since passed away. I had not read these before (back when, I preferred full length mysteries to short stories) but it is possible that others may have read it when it was published previously.

The 12 stories are a wide variety of mysteries collected from various authors, with the sleuths solving everything from whodunnit to the background of a mystery guest. My favorite story was by the late Elizabeth Peters. I’ve been a huge fan of hers for many decades under all of her various pseudonyms. That this story featured herself in the story made it all the more humorous.

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