For December, I'm reading from The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (edited by Otto Penzler) and last night I read a witty story from it, Boxing Unclever by Robert Barnard. This is the first time I'm encountering this author and I like his style but, alas, my library has only two of his novels. When I checked out his Wikipedia profile, I wasn't surprised to read that Agatha Christie was his favourite author, because the story brought to mind one of her novels.
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