This anthology contains: Christmas Party by Rex Stout; Do Your Christmas Shoplifting Early by Robert Somerlott; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; Father Crumlish Celebrates Christmas by Alice Scanlan Reach; The Christmas Masque by S. S. Rafferty; The Dauphin's Doll by Ellery Queen; By the Chimney with Care by Nick O'Donohoe; The Problem of the Christmas Steeple by Edward D. Hoch; Death on Christmas Eve by Stanley Ellin; The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians by August Derleth; Blind Man's Hood by John Dickson Carr; and The Thirteenth Day of Christmas by Isaac Asimov.