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An Exciting Christmas Eve

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published 1982
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A chemist who works on developing explosives is kidnapped by conspirators who want him to show them how to build bombs. But when they give him some materials to demonstrate with, he uses them to escape.

First published in the Boy's Own Paper, December 1883.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1982 Cover Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle Secker & Warburg Collection 114
1983 Cover Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle Secker & Warburg Collection 114
February 1984 Cover Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle Doubleday Collection 114
October 1989 Cover Chillers for Christmas Michael O'Mara Books Anthology 106
October 1990 Cover Chillers for Christmas Headline Anthology 106
November 1990 Chillers for Christmas Gallery Books / W. H. Smith Anthology 106
December 2025 Cover Black Cat Weekly, #225 Wildside Press MAGAZINE