Richard Dalby (ed)

  Table of Contents

  A BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS - Christopher Hallam

  FOREWORD

  THE TRINITY CAT – Ellis Peters

  A HAPPY SOLUTION - Raymund Allen

  THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  AN UPRIGHT WOMAN – H.R.F. Keating

  A BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS - Christopher Hallam

  A PAIR OF MUDDY SHOES - Lennox Robinson

  THE UNKNOWN MURDERER - H. C. Bailey

  THE BUOY THAT DID NOT LIGHT - Edgar Wallace

  A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY – Agatha Christie

  THE GHOST’S TOUCH - Fergus Hume

  THE GROTTO - Pamela Sewell

  THE SHOW MUST NOT GO ON - David G. Rowlands

  RED LILY - Dick Donovan

  THE BLACK BAG LEFT ON A DOORSTEP - C. L. Pirkis

  THE GRAVE BY THE HANDPOST - Thomas Hardy

  MR WRAY’S CASH BOX— A CHRISTMAS SKETCH - Wilkie Collins

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  III

  IV

  V

  VI

  VII

  VIII

  IX

  X

  Solution of the Endgame in ‘A Happy Solution’

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS