Five-Minute Whodunits

Rating:
Summary: Worth reading ..
Review: I liked this book quite a bit, although I was disappointed to find that at least 1/3 of the 'mysteries' were actually logic puzzles. All in all, though, I'd have to recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Worth reading ..
Review: I liked this book quite a bit, although I was disappointed to find that at least 1/3 of the 'mysteries' were actually logic puzzles. All in all, though, I'd have to recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent mystery puzzles!
Review: Smith's clever mini mysteries kept me entertained for hours. I recommend this book to all amateur logicians. I'm anxious to start his Five Minute Crimebusters.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent mystery puzzles!
Review: Smith's clever mini mysteries kept me entertained for hours. I recommend this book to all amateur logicians. I'm anxious to start his Five Minute Crimebusters.

Rating:
Summary: Greatly Disappointed
Review: The book was greatly disappointing. Rather than interesting mysteries to read, they were simple and futile exercises in solving the same logic exercise over and over. For example, 5 suspects: One is lying, the other is telling the truth, the third is maybe telling the truth, the fourth is maybe lieing, etc. This was repeated throughout most of the stories. They were simply too tiring to read. The other few stories that did not have that approach had only one person in the story, so there was no mystery as to the identity of the culprit. You can better spend your money with mysteries by Hy Conrad. Hy Conrad's books are more enjoyable to read.

Rating:
Summary: Greatly Disappointed
Review: The book was greatly disappointing. Rather than interesting mysteries to read, they were simple and futile exercises in solving the same logic exercise over and over. For example, 5 suspects: One is lying, the other is telling the truth, the third is maybe telling the truth, the fourth is maybe lieing, etc. This was repeated throughout most of the stories. They were simply too tiring to read. The other few stories that did not have that approach had only one person in the story, so there was no mystery as to the identity of the culprit. You can better spend your money with mysteries by Hy Conrad. Hy Conrad's books are more enjoyable to read.