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• vii • Foreword (Crime for Christmas) • essay by Peter Cushing
• 1 • The Trinity Cat • (1976) • short story by Ellis Peters
• 14 • A Happy Solution • (1916) • short story by Raymund Allen
• 27 • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 45 • An Upright Woman • (1970) • novelette by H. R. F. Keating
• 67 • A Book for Christmas • short story by Christopher Hallam
• 73 • A Pair of Muddy Shoes • (1919) • short story by Lennox Robinson
• 80 • The Unknown Murderer • (1923) • novelette by H. C. Bailey
• 101 • The Buoy That Did Not Light • (1923) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• 112 • A Christmas Tragedy • (1930) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 127 • The Ghost's Touch • (1906) • short story by Fergus Hume
• 140 • The Grotto • short story by Pamela Sewell
• 144 • The Show Must Not Go On • short story by David G. Rowlands
• 154 • Red Lily • (1899) • novelette by Dick Donovan
• 177 • The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step • (1893) • short story by Catherine L. Pirkis
• 198 • The Grave by the Handpost • (1897) • short story by Thomas Hardy
• 209 • Mr Wray's Cash Box • non-genre • (1852) • novella by Wilkie Collins