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The Prizewinners: Masterpieces of Mystery Selected by Ellery Queen
1976 Davis Publications hardcover, Ellery Queen. A selection of some of the best mystery short stories selected by the king of modern mystery.
352 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1976
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did-not-finish
September 4, 2024No rating for the volume because I didn’t read most of it.
I checked out the book from the library to read William Faulkner’s “An Error in Chemistry” with a friend. The story is just okay: too much telling and an obvious, though farfetched, resolution.
2.75 stars
My plan was to read just the Faulkner, but when I saw “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell in the table-of-contents, I knew a reread was in order and that’s my main reason for writing this little non-review, to acknowledge it. I can’t remember where I read the story before, but I know I read it because of a book that references its title: The Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter.
5 stars for an excellent story that shows way more than it tells.
Fittingly for the theme of the Showalter, I decided to read the other two women in this volume of twenty-one stories.
“Ransom” by Pearl S. Buck is well-written but of its time and I’m undecided about her intent and the ending in particular. I hope she’s being ironic. I think she has to be, but I’m unsure. 3.25 stars
“The Murder in the Fishing Cat” by Edna St. Vincent Millay shares a theme with the Glaspell and is an amazing and surreal look into a guilty man’s mind. What is he guilty of? You decide. 5 stars
I checked out the book from the library to read William Faulkner’s “An Error in Chemistry” with a friend. The story is just okay: too much telling and an obvious, though farfetched, resolution.
2.75 stars
My plan was to read just the Faulkner, but when I saw “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell in the table-of-contents, I knew a reread was in order and that’s my main reason for writing this little non-review, to acknowledge it. I can’t remember where I read the story before, but I know I read it because of a book that references its title: The Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter.
5 stars for an excellent story that shows way more than it tells.
Fittingly for the theme of the Showalter, I decided to read the other two women in this volume of twenty-one stories.
“Ransom” by Pearl S. Buck is well-written but of its time and I’m undecided about her intent and the ending in particular. I hope she’s being ironic. I think she has to be, but I’m unsure. 3.25 stars
“The Murder in the Fishing Cat” by Edna St. Vincent Millay shares a theme with the Glaspell and is an amazing and surreal look into a guilty man’s mind. What is he guilty of? You decide. 5 stars
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