The Murderless Christmas Mystery

Not every mystery needs a murder.

There are minor details shared for all the novels and stories listed below, but no major plot revelations in this episode.

Mentioned in this episode:

— “The Flying Stars” by G.K. Chesterton, collected in The Innocence of Father Brown

— A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

— The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

— Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

— An English Murder by Cyril Hare

— Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon

— The Santa Claus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay

— Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer

— The Smiler with the Knife by Nicholas Blake

— Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh

— The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake

— "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" by Agatha Christie, collected in a book of the same name

— "Stuffing" by Edgar Wallace, collected in Silent Nights, edited by Martin Edwards

— "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

— “The Mystery of Mrs Bardell’s Xmas Pudding” by Gwyn Evans

— “The Ghost’s Touch” by Fergus Hume, collected in The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler

— A Maigret Christmas by Georges Simenon

— “The Reprisal” by Michael Innes

— Catt Out of the Bag by Clifford Witting

— "The Black Bag Left on a Doorstep” by Catharine Louisa Pirkis, collected in A Surprise for Christmas, edited by Martin Edwards

— “Sister Bessie or Your Old Leech” by Cyril Hare, collected in The Christmas Card Crime, edited by Martin Edwards

— A Highland Christmas by M.C. Beaton

— Deck The Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

— “Christmas Eve” by S.C. Roberts, collected in The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler

— “The Necklace of Pearls” by Dorothy L. Sayers, collected in Silent Nights, edited by Martin Edwards

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