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Book of Murder (1930)

door Frederick Irving Anderson

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"Excellent writing, puzzling crimes, and plausible and interesting detectives." ― Saturday Review of LiteratureMeet Oliver Armiston, a writer whose ingenious mysteries inspired so many copycat crimes that the authorities began paying him not to write. Together with Deputy "Man Hunter" Parr of the New York Police Department, Armiston takes on cases of fraud, murder, and other nefarious activities in these ten dryly witty, cleverly constructed whodunits. Author Frederick Irving Anderson (1877-1947) was a star reporter for the New York World from 1898 to 1908 and a popular writer of crime fiction for The Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines. Because so many of his superb detective stories were written for periodicals, they fell into undeserved neglect. Steeped in the evocative atmosphere of a bygone New York, this collection offers fiction that's seasoned with shrewd evaluations of crime and criminals and enhanced with a delightfully low-key sense of humor. "Anybody who enjoys crime novels should enjoy this book." -- Jolly Elementary School… (meer)

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Of all the mystery reprints that Dover Publications has done over the years, I think this is the most interesting and unconventional. I know that any number of their reprints of classic English mystery fiction are superior as mysteries and probably as prose as well. But there is something about these stories that capture a particular distinctive flavor of American popular fiction of the time.

None of the stories can be thought of as in any way realistic - the police detective in the main sequence seems to be able to have every single member of the New York City police force at his call - but they provide excellent atmosphere and some ingenious puzzles. Several of the stories take place in a relatively rural and remote location - I don't know if its upstate New York, or perhaps Vermont - but they are wonderful and have stuck with me for many years. (

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gmenchen | Sep 5, 2018 |

This was a book written in the form of the 1920's. There were many different cases. It may be a little difficult for some people to get into the book but stick with it, the stories make it get more interesting as it goes along. Good characters and story lines.

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"Excellent writing, puzzling crimes, and plausible and interesting detectives." ― Saturday Review of LiteratureMeet Oliver Armiston, a writer whose ingenious mysteries inspired so many copycat crimes that the authorities began paying him not to write. Together with Deputy "Man Hunter" Parr of the New York Police Department, Armiston takes on cases of fraud, murder, and other nefarious activities in these ten dryly witty, cleverly constructed whodunits. Author Frederick Irving Anderson (1877-1947) was a star reporter for the New York World from 1898 to 1908 and a popular writer of crime fiction for The Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines. Because so many of his superb detective stories were written for periodicals, they fell into undeserved neglect. Steeped in the evocative atmosphere of a bygone New York, this collection offers fiction that's seasoned with shrewd evaluations of crime and criminals and enhanced with a delightfully low-key sense of humor. "Anybody who enjoys crime novels should enjoy this book." -- Jolly Elementary School

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