As a ghost, Jacob Marley helps save Scrooge in the classic Dickens tale. Now, other authors are writing books that tell Marley's story.

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There are footlights ringing the pie-shaped stage, each one screened from the audience by a real book. These sometimes light the Narrator from directly below, in the classic ...

Edited by Otto Penzler, The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries is advertised as the "most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled," and we're immediately sold. It includes everything ...

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