debut of the Great Detective, as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson first meet and agree to room together at 221B Baker St.
1887 issue
Day: December 24, 2023
December 25, 1943 issue ~ cover art by Pete Kuhlhoff
A little Christmas Eve crime
2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?
December 1933 issue ~ cover art by Dominic Cammerota
Holiday Heist
1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print
1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.
1947 United Artists
1947 United Artists lobby card, 11×14″
December 19, 1925 issue
January 1934 issue ~ cover art by Lyman Anderson
Ho Ho Ho – – –
Die Hard, 1988
SMB Noir 
