Here're a few that haven't been mentioned.
UNEASY STREET by Wade Miller Max Thursday clears up a San
Diego murder during the Christmas season.
MURDER IS MY DISH by Stephen Marlowe Globe-trotting PI Chet
Drum spends the Christmas holidays looking for the murderer
of his partner in South America. This novel fictionalizes the
Galindez
"disappearance" that caused such a stir in the early
'50s.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MURDOCK by Robert J. Ray SoCal op gets
involved in Shopping Mall crimes.
"E" IS FOR EVIDENCE by Sue Grafton Kinsey Milhone works
through Christmas in this entry in the popular series.
58 MINUTES by Walter Wager NYPD Police Captain leads the
counter-offensive against a terrorist attack on JFK Airport
just as his duaghter is flying home for a Christmas visit.
This became the second DIE HARD film, with John McClane
(Burce Willis) substituted for the original hero, and DC's
Dulles Airport substituted for NYC's Kennedy.
DEATH OF A POSTMAN by John Creasey Inspector West of the Yard
foils a postal robbery during the Christmas season.
RED CHRISTMAS by Patrick Ruell Espionage thriller set at (of
all places) a British B&B that is using a Dickens
Christmas festival as a cover for covert operations.
THE BLACK MARBLE by Joseph Wambaugh Russian-American Burglary
detective in the LAPD looks into the theft of a thoroughbred
dog while celebrating Orthodox Christmas in early
January.
Ed McBain uses holidays frequently in his 87th Precinct
books. Here're some of his Christmas books.
THE PUSHER by Ed McBain Steve Carella tried to uncover a drug
ring operating in his precinct that may have hooked his
lieutenant's son. But for the intervention of the editor,
this book would have been Carella's rendevous with the
Reichenbach.
SADIE WHEN SHE DIED by Ed McBain Carella again looking into
the suspicious murder of a young wife at Christmas
time.
MONEY MONEY MONEY by Ed McBain One of the latest 87th
Precincts has the boys looking for counterfeit money all
through the month of December.
AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE by Ed McBain Actually a short story
but published as a separate book. A few hours in the
squadroom one Christmas Eve.
LUULABY by Ed McBain The boys look into the murder of an
infant on New Year's Day (which is, after all, the Seventh
Day of Christmas).
THE GOOSEBERRY FOOL by James McClure Police procedure in
Apartheid-era South Africa as white Police Lieutenant Tromp
Kramer and his black partner, Sergeant Mickey Zondi, try to
do humane police work in a fundamentally inhumane society.
Tromp, whose birthday falls around Christmas, recalls the
season with distaste.
That doesn't even scratch the surface, but it should last you
awhile.
JIM DOHERTY
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