In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits. 

The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you're more likely to come across a corpse under the Christmas tree than a present. From a Santa Claus with a secret to a violent theft that snowballs into something quite unexpected, pull up a chair, throw another log on the fire ... and let history's greatest crime writers surprise, delight and chill you to the bone. 

Featuring stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyril Hare, Margery Allingham, Mark Billingham and more... 

Table of contents: 
A Surprise for Christmas, Cyril Hare 
The Snowball Burglary, H. C. Bailey 
Tall Story, Margery Allingham 
A Present from Santa Claus, Julian Symons 
The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention, Dorothy L. Sayers 
The Motive, G. D. H. and M. Cole 
Underneath the Mistletoe Last Night, Mark Billingham 
The New Catacomb, Arthur Conan Doyle 
The Motive, Ronald Knox 
Dog in the Night-Time, Edmund Crispin