Like the classic first movie that paired William Powell and Myrna Loy (a perfect Christmas watch), this book is set during the yuletide season in Manhattan. It’s funny to think that this was the only Thin Man book Hammett wrote, despite the fact that it launched a six-film series. And, by the way, Die Hard is indisputably a Christmas movie.ġ. So here’s my personal list of favourite Christmas crime stories, all worth an evening in with a good bottle of your favourite drink at hand. Christmas can be a lonely time, especially in the big city, and that can lead to unfortunate consequences. There are a few decent hardboiled novels that tackle the subject as well. But it’s not just the practitioners of locked-room mysteries who have inserted a yuletide spirit into a murderous tale. In the golden age of detective fiction, most of the big-name authors took a crack at a Christmas-themed whodunnit.
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