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Also by Martin Edwards:

Guilty Secrets, September 2026
Hardcover
Cyanide in the Sun, July 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Hemlock Bay, June 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Metropolitan Mysteries, December 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Who Killed Father Christmas?, November 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, October 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, October 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries, August 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The House on Graveyard Lane, September 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Final Acts, October 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge, August 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Edinburgh Mystery, May 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Murder by the Book, September 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Life of Crime, June 2022
e-Book / audiobook
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries, October 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Mortmain Hall, September 2020
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries, July 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Gallows Court, September 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Resorting To Murder, June 2015
Paperback
The Golden Age Of Murder, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Frozen Shroud, April 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Serpent Pool, February 2010
Trade Size

WHO KILLED FATHER CHRISTMAS?
By: Martin Edwards

And Other Seasonal Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)

Poisoned Pen Press
November 2025
On Sale: October 21, 2025
288 pages
ISBN: 1464230463
EAN: 9781464230462
Kindle: B0DQVM65SM
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Mystery Anthology | Holiday

The answer to any classic crime fiction fan's Christmas wish – and the only way for you to answer Who Killed Father Christmas? – this new anthology is set to muddle, befuddle, surprise and delight.

'The red robe concealed the blood until it made my hand sticky. Father Christmas had been stabbed in the back, and he was certainly dead.'

The murder of Father Christmas at one of London's great toy shops is just one of many yuletide disasters in this new collection of stories from the Golden Age of crime writing and beyond. Masters of the genre such as Patricia Moyes and John Dickson Carr present perfectly packaged short pieces, and Martin Edwards delivers a sackful of rarities from authors such as Ellis Peters, Gwyn Evans and Michael Innes.