- Hardcover: 640 pages
- Publisher: Galahad Books; First Edition edition (Feb 1980)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0883656442
- ISBN-13: 978-0883656440
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.8 x 5.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 273,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
You Could Kill Someone With This Thing
28 Dec 2008
This is a frighteningly large hardcover. Co-workers asked me if I was reading a textbook. No, instead it's 63 short stories culled from years of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. There's some big names in here, including Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, and Hillary Waugh.
Still, it's an uneven lot, with some true clunkers. Other stories are horribly dated by modern sensibilities with references to prices that stagger the imagination more than the dirty deeds (Sixty cents for a cheeseburger? Only at White Castle...) and a few references to 'Nam and the Cold War. There's even a tale with a science fiction bent about the first manned mission to Mars, but the author has planted tongue firmly in cheek, making it one of the more enjoyable, if quirky, stories in the collection.
There's enough memorable material to make this worth the read. I'd even recommend spacing the stories out, reading a few between other, longer works to prevent burnout. Recommended to any fans of mystery in any genre. You're sure to find something of merit here, especially if you find this on the cheap in a used bookstore since I'm fairly certain it's long out of print.
Still, it's an uneven lot, with some true clunkers. Other stories are horribly dated by modern sensibilities with references to prices that stagger the imagination more than the dirty deeds (Sixty cents for a cheeseburger? Only at White Castle...) and a few references to 'Nam and the Cold War. There's even a tale with a science fiction bent about the first manned mission to Mars, but the author has planted tongue firmly in cheek, making it one of the more enjoyable, if quirky, stories in the collection.
There's enough memorable material to make this worth the read. I'd even recommend spacing the stories out, reading a few between other, longer works to prevent burnout. Recommended to any fans of mystery in any genre. You're sure to find something of merit here, especially if you find this on the cheap in a used bookstore since I'm fairly certain it's long out of print.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
lots of great little short stories
1 Jun 2005
Format:Hardcover
most of the stories are about 5-10 pages. interesting easy to read stories chosen from the Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazine. The book was put together after Hitchcock's death and stories of course were not written by hitch.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
One of The worst Anthologies ever compiled!
27 Nov 2011
Format:Hardcover
this one is simply the worst so-called Anthology i've ever read. it tried so hard to fool you with such cheating words: "beware--the anthology is not recommended for late night reading. these masterful tales are guaranteed to unnerve."
give me a break! there were actually handful barely readable ones in it, and most of them were garbage-like bad stories in mediocre writing. indeed we have to beware, the anthology is indeed not recommended for late night reading, because if you did, you'd become so upset that one after another, page after page was just so bad and you'd lose your peaceful mind and unnerve your temper since this was just a collection of mediocre garbage.
there were only a few readable:
WINTER RUN
YOU CAN'T BLAME ME
THE COST OF KENT CASTWELL
PSEUDO INDETITY
THAT RUSSSIAN!
BLIND DATE
PRESSURE
THE RUNNING MAN
THE VIETNAM CIRCLE
SADIE WHEN SHE DIED
A VERY CAUTIOUS BOY
A TRY FOR THE BIG PRIZE
NIGHT OF THE TWISTERS
WARRIOR'S FAREWELL
WITH A SMILE FOR THE ENDING
TELEVISION COUNTRY
ART FOR MONEY
NOTHING BUT HUMAN NATURE
MURDER, 1990
that's all. others were just pure junk. but even those i listed above were not in the least thrilling, just barely readable.
give me a break! there were actually handful barely readable ones in it, and most of them were garbage-like bad stories in mediocre writing. indeed we have to beware, the anthology is indeed not recommended for late night reading, because if you did, you'd become so upset that one after another, page after page was just so bad and you'd lose your peaceful mind and unnerve your temper since this was just a collection of mediocre garbage.
there were only a few readable:
WINTER RUN
YOU CAN'T BLAME ME
THE COST OF KENT CASTWELL
PSEUDO INDETITY
THAT RUSSSIAN!
BLIND DATE
PRESSURE
THE RUNNING MAN
THE VIETNAM CIRCLE
SADIE WHEN SHE DIED
A VERY CAUTIOUS BOY
A TRY FOR THE BIG PRIZE
NIGHT OF THE TWISTERS
WARRIOR'S FAREWELL
WITH A SMILE FOR THE ENDING
TELEVISION COUNTRY
ART FOR MONEY
NOTHING BUT HUMAN NATURE
MURDER, 1990
that's all. others were just pure junk. but even those i listed above were not in the least thrilling, just barely readable.
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