Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries

Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
edited by Martin Edwards
5/5 stars

This anthology by British Crime Classics is a fun read.  There are stories by both well known and currently obscure crime writers, from the Victorian age to the Golden Age, and slightly later.  The collection is has a variety of stories, with murder, theft, and suspense represented.  Some are not as mysterious as others, but all were entertaining.  I discovered several authors whose novels I now plan to read.

The stories are as follows:
"The Blue Carbuncle" by Arthur Conan Doyle  5/5 stars
"Parlour Tricks" by Ralph Plummer  3/5 stars
"A Happy Solution" by Raymond Allen  3/5 stars
"The Flying Stars" by G. K. Chesterton  4/5 stars
"Stuffing" by Edgar Wallace  4/5 stars
"The Unknown Murderer" by H.C. Bailey  4/5 stars
"The Absconding Treasurer" by J. Jefferson Farjeon  3/5 stars
"The Necklace of Pearls" by Dorothy L. Sayers  5/5 stars
"The Case is Altered" by Margery Allingham  4/5 stars
"Waxworks" by Ethel Lina White  5/5 stars
"Cambric Tea" by Marjorie Bowen 4/5 stars
"The Chinese Apple" by Joseph Shearing  4/5 stars
"A Problem in White" by Nicholas Blake  4/5 stars
"The Name on the Window" by Edmund Crispin  4/5 stars
"Beef for Christmas" by Leo Bruce  4/5 stars

The variety of the collection is definitely five stars.  The average of the stories is four stars, giving the book a total of four and a half stars, so I rounded it off to five stars.

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