Acknowledgments

Grateful acknowledgment to Dame Jean Conan Doyle for permission to use the Sherlock Holmes characters.

"The Watch Night Bell" copyright 1996 by Anne Perry.

"The Sleuth of Christmas Past" copyright 1996 by Barbara Paul.

"A Scandal in Winter" copyright 1996 by Gillian Linscott.

"The Adventure in Border Country" copyright 1996 by Gwen

Moffat.

"The Adventure of the Three Ghosts" copyright 1996 by Loren

D. Estleman.

"The Adventure of the Canine Ventriloquist" copyright 1996 by

Jon L. Breen.

"The Adventure of the Man Who Never Laughed" copyright 1996

by J. N. Williamson.

"The Yuletime Affair" copyright 1996 by John Stoessel.

"The  Adventure  of the  Christmas Tree"  copyright   1996  by

William L. DeAndrea.

"The Adventure of the Christmas Ghosts" copyright 1996 by Bill

Crider.

"The Thief of Twelfth Night" copyright 1996 by Carole Nelson

Douglas.

"The Italian Sherlock Holmes" copyright 1996 by Reginald Hill.

"The Christmas Client" copyright 1996 by Edward D. Hoch.

"The Adventure of the Angel's Trumpet" copyright  1996 by

Carolyn Wheat.