Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A CORNUCOPIA OF HOLIDAY-THEMED TALES OF CRIME AND MYSTERY.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Master storyteller Max Allan Collins tells crime stories for every holiday: Christmas Mother's Day Memorial Day Father's Day Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Wreath for Marley</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> adds intrigue to a traditional Christmas tale; </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Flowers for Bill O'Reilly</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> infuses a Memorial Day setting with horror-movie madness; and in the Thanksgiving yarn </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Bird for Becky</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a sweet twelve-year-old girl turns out to be the reincarnation of a rubbed-out Chicago gangster.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Also included are the short stories </span><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>Mommy</em><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> a Mother's Day tale that became the bases of a cult movie;</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Firecracker Kill</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a Fourth of July serial-killer noir that pairs a cop and a mob enforcer as heroes; and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His Father's Ghost</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a Halloween-meets-Father's Day study of an adopted boy's search for the killer of the father he never met.</span></p>