Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the growing season with this Christmas vintage featuring two of her most beloved character types.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT TIME

All of Alvirah’s deductive capabilities and Willy’s world-class good sense are asked as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A female abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief can be absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned using a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears. Seven years later on, the mother comes back to the picture and finds Alvirah and Willy assisting neighborhood kids prepare for a Xmas pageant at an after-school shelter. Quickly the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice — also to unmask fraud artists threatening to shut down the shelter.