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Eleven tales involving ingenious feats of detection by such well-known authors as Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, John Carr, and Ellery Queen. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Title: Daring Detectives
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Editor: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 150
Words: 62.5K
Synopsis:
From the Inside Cover
A collection of stories, designed for young readers, about brave detectives and tracking down unscrupulous criminals.
Includes the following 8 stories:
Through a Dead Man’s Eye - CORNELL WOOLRICH
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats - ELLERY QUEEN
The Day the Children Vanished - HUGH PENTECOST
The Footprint in the Sky - JOHN DICKSON CARR
The Case of the Irate Witness - ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse - AUGUST DERLETH
Green Ice - STUART PALMER
My Thoughts:
I was glad that the little blurb baldly stated “for young readers”, otherwise my expectations would have been very different and as such so would my reactions to this. In many ways this reminded me of the Haunted Houseful that I read 2 years ago. That was also “for young readers” but I hadn't realized it at the time.
If you've read much detective/crime fiction, you'll already have heard of some of these authors or realize how some of them stole their ideas from the greats. For example, Christie's story's idea is lifted almost wholesale from a Sherlock Holmes story. I won't go into details, but as soon as I read “X happened”, I knew the rest of the story immediately.
What this book really made apparent to me is that Hitchcock threw his name everywhere, like a possessed child projectile vomiting. Trying to sort out what is his adult fiction vs his young readers stuff is much like trying to pick out the carrots from said projectile vomit. It's doable, but man, it is messy!
I still enjoyed this, despite comparing it to vomit, hahahahaa. Hitchcock had a talent for picking out stories that he thought would sell and as such they are “good” stories. They are stories that you want to read. None of these books edited by Hitchcock have left me thinking that I should stop. I want to keep on reading them. I can't think of a better recommendation than that.
★★★✬☆ ( )