_Christmas is coming! For apprentice detective R.D. Clarke, the arrival of the holiday season means it's almost time for his favorite day of the year: The Running of the Santas, an event where thousands dress up as everyone's favorite jolly fat man in red and run around a local mall.

However, things aren't all as innocent as the seem when a quartet of Santas break away from the pack and invade a few of the stores in the mall. Unwilling to sit idly by and allow his favorite day of the year be ruined, R.D. joins forces with a victimized store owner to save the day.

The Chrismystery is a completely free 18,000 word novella, featuring the same hilarity and suspense of the bigger Clarke books, but without that annoying price tag.

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Download it while it lasts though, The Chrismystery is only available through January 2012.