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Classic Detective Stories: A Suitcase Book
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Great choice for a reader on the move!
CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORIES is a compilation of six (well, you guessed it in one!) classic detective stories. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUSSEX VAMPIRE and THE BLUE GERANIUM are a pair of very middle-of-the-pack Sherlock Holmes and Jane Marple stories (respectively) and do nothing to aid this anthology in achieving a more stellar review. As with any anthology, there’s a worst and there’s a best. The runt of this particular litter is definitely ASK ME ANOTHER by Frank Gruber. THE STOLEN RUBENS by Jacques Futrelle and THE RIDDLE OF THE YELLOW CANARY by Stuart Palmer are both 4-star efforts but the star of the entire field was definitely SWEATING IT OUT WITH DOVER by Joyce Porter.
Although the overall rating comes in at a marginal 3-stars, the real beauty of this little number is its format. A small font on quite small pages means that, as books go, this book occupies a virtually negligible amount of space in your suitcase. Just the thing for traveling. And, of course, because it’s short stories, it can be picked up and put down and read even in the presence of an endless string of distractions and stops and starts. Despite its somewhat lacking literary values, it’s a great idea for the mobile reader.
Paul Weiss
CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORIES is a compilation of six (well, you guessed it in one!) classic detective stories. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUSSEX VAMPIRE and THE BLUE GERANIUM are a pair of very middle-of-the-pack Sherlock Holmes and Jane Marple stories (respectively) and do nothing to aid this anthology in achieving a more stellar review. As with any anthology, there’s a worst and there’s a best. The runt of this particular litter is definitely ASK ME ANOTHER by Frank Gruber. THE STOLEN RUBENS by Jacques Futrelle and THE RIDDLE OF THE YELLOW CANARY by Stuart Palmer are both 4-star efforts but the star of the entire field was definitely SWEATING IT OUT WITH DOVER by Joyce Porter.
Although the overall rating comes in at a marginal 3-stars, the real beauty of this little number is its format. A small font on quite small pages means that, as books go, this book occupies a virtually negligible amount of space in your suitcase. Just the thing for traveling. And, of course, because it’s short stories, it can be picked up and put down and read even in the presence of an endless string of distractions and stops and starts. Despite its somewhat lacking literary values, it’s a great idea for the mobile reader.
Paul Weiss
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