A review by abject_reptile
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories by John Bude, Cyril Hare, Martin Edwards, E.C.R. Lorac, John Bingham, Carter Dickson, Selwyn Jepson, Julian Symons, Ronald Knox, Francis Durbridge, Baroness Orczy, Donald Stuart

3.0

I appreciate the British Library Crime Classics series and the covers are as enticing as a dessert trolley but I have yet to read one of the short story collections that rises above 3 stars. In this case, 3 stars is generous. John Dickson Carr's 'Blind Man's Hood' is spectacularly good and doesn't belong here. With one or two exceptions the rest are mediocre and two, which I won't name, are of the 'twist in the tale' variety which I can't abide no matter how well they're written.