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Summary: Doctor's recommendation
Review: "If you suffer from sleeplessness, this book will surely cure you in 24 hours. If not, we will be glad to give you a full cash refund."I would say the above if I were a doctor. This book is definitely no good for entertainment. But to be fair, I cannot give it a rating lower than this because of its documentary value. This book provides a very comprehensive survey of a certain genre of detective stories from its birth to our time. The stories collected are reasonably representative. But as I expected, I only find my old friends Poe, Carr and Queen etc. worth reading. Detective stories in English language seem still quite a British matter. Even great American writers like Poe and Carr spent most of their creative periods in England, where is also the stage of their stories. The editors surely deserve more credit for sparing no pain to document the stories if they are also very bored by them like I am.
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Summary: Doctor's recommendation
Review: "If you suffer from sleeplessness, this book will surely cure you in 24 hours. If not, we will be glad to give you a full cash refund." I would say the above if I were a doctor. This book is definitely no good for entertainment. But to be fair, I cannot give it a rating lower than this because of its documentary value. This book provides a very comprehensive survey of a certain genre of detective stories from its birth to our time. The stories collected are reasonably representative. But as I expected, I only find my old friends Poe, Carr and Queen etc. worth reading. Detective stories in English language seem still quite a British matter. Even great American writers like Poe and Carr spent most of their creative periods in England, where is also the stage of their stories. The editors surely deserve more credit for sparing no pain to document the stories if they are also very bored by them like I am.
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Summary: A remarkable collection of American detective fiction
Review: I am taking a class this semester, Mysteries, and this book is the required text. I have always enjoyed mysteries, but this book has added to that pleasure immensely. Hillerman and Herbert have done an extraordinary job of piecing together a good representative slice of American detective/mystery writers past and present. The books begins with Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The editors wrap the selection up with Marcia Muller's "Benny's Space," published in 1991. The book spans the evolution of the American detective story throughout its entire history. I highly recommend this anthology to anyone who enjoys reading the short story. With few exceptions, the stories in this book are very enjoyable mysteries.
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Summary: Interesting selection
Review: There are a good mix of stories here. They range over a broad time period, early to present. I like the fact that there were some authors I haven't read yet, or others that I never associated with mysteries. The reason I didn't give it five stars is that there were quite a few stories that I had already read in other anthologies. Nice introductions to each story, with background info on the author.
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