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Match wits with great detectives, devious criminals, and some of the finest minds in the all-time annals of detective literature. From crime-suspense (Tom Curry's "The Sign") to hard-boiled fiction ("A Hand of Pinochle") to modern noir ("Soul's Burning" by Bill Pronzini), the scope of these 100 detective stories is as wide as the tales are short. They're the brainchildren of such top names as James M. Barrie ("The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"), O. Henry ("The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud"), Charles Dickens ("An Artful Touch"), Bret Harte ("The Stolen Cigar-Case"), Jack London ("The Leopard Man's Story"), R.L. Stevens ("The Carnival Caper"), Stephen Deninger ("Damsel with a Derringer"), Nick Spain ("Duck Behind that Eight-Ball!"), and countless others. There's even one by Abraham Lincoln, "The Trailor Murder Mystery," which appeared in 1843. Prison breakouts, grand larceny, homicide: trying to solve these tricky cases will be a treat for all mystery fans.… (meer)
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Reading through this, I can't say I'm thrilled. It mostly delivers what's on the label, 100 short short stories, though there's been a number of them I wouldn't have classified as detective stories. I don't believe any of them are translations, and most of them apparently were written in the 20th century, though there's a few, like the Lincoln story, that were 19th century. The copyright page lists 25 stories that were printed by Frank A. Munsey Co in 1934-41, and another 22 that were printed by Popular Publications Inc in 1939-1952, 10 published between 1963-1979 and 23 published in 1980-1993, and the remaining twenty apparently without date or copyright notice.
Once you've dredged the history of mystery for short short stories--and I bet the complete set exhausted pretty much all of them--you really start to hit the dregs, and there's too many of these stories that flop completely. Not all of them; it pretty much covers the range from top to bottom.
Besides the contents, an anthology also rises or fails based on its structure, and this one fails. The stories are alphabetical order, which is as bad as random, breaking one pair of stories with the same characters up, and reversing their chronologically order. There's no biography on the author, not even birth & death dates, nor dates of writing or first publication. It leaves everything a little context-less and hard to place.
Okay, so it will continue to sit by my bedstand until I'll read the last 50 stories. It has value to me as a large collection of short-short stories in one volume. But I feel after I've read every last sentence, I will still be mildly disappointed. ( )
Match wits with great detectives, devious criminals, and some of the finest minds in the all-time annals of detective literature. From crime-suspense (Tom Curry's "The Sign") to hard-boiled fiction ("A Hand of Pinochle") to modern noir ("Soul's Burning" by Bill Pronzini), the scope of these 100 detective stories is as wide as the tales are short. They're the brainchildren of such top names as James M. Barrie ("The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"), O. Henry ("The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud"), Charles Dickens ("An Artful Touch"), Bret Harte ("The Stolen Cigar-Case"), Jack London ("The Leopard Man's Story"), R.L. Stevens ("The Carnival Caper"), Stephen Deninger ("Damsel with a Derringer"), Nick Spain ("Duck Behind that Eight-Ball!"), and countless others. There's even one by Abraham Lincoln, "The Trailor Murder Mystery," which appeared in 1843. Prison breakouts, grand larceny, homicide: trying to solve these tricky cases will be a treat for all mystery fans.
Once you've dredged the history of mystery for short short stories--and I bet the complete set exhausted pretty much all of them--you really start to hit the dregs, and there's too many of these stories that flop completely. Not all of them; it pretty much covers the range from top to bottom.
Besides the contents, an anthology also rises or fails based on its structure, and this one fails. The stories are alphabetical order, which is as bad as random, breaking one pair of stories with the same characters up, and reversing their chronologically order. There's no biography on the author, not even birth & death dates, nor dates of writing or first publication. It leaves everything a little context-less and hard to place.
Okay, so it will continue to sit by my bedstand until I'll read the last 50 stories. It has value to me as a large collection of short-short stories in one volume. But I feel after I've read every last sentence, I will still be mildly disappointed. ( )