Cartridge in a Pear Tree

By: Merry Holt

Narrated by: Katherine Robson

The quaint Christmas village known as Pointsettia Point resides within a snow globe of sort--a climate-controlled bubble that keeps the environment pleasantly perfect for the yuletide tourist crowd. Angel, the daughter of the village's resident Santa Claus, teaches ornithology and music at the College of Christmas Knowledge. Her most popular course is the Birds of Christmas, a study of the 23 birds given as gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

Angel's boyfriend, Ebenezer, is infuriated when the town's vehement climate activist mayor, Glacier, slaps a tax on his heating shop, Lump of Coal, for selling coal-burning furnaces.

The happy holiday season takes a turn for the worst when a dead body is discovered at the foot of the town's iconic Pear Tree that is the focal point of the popular "Twelve Days of Christmas Drive Through Exhibit". Everyone is a suspect! Can Angel solve the mystery and save Christmas for Poinsetta Point, or will its citizens all find a lumps of coal in their stockings?

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