The Rupa Book of Great Crime Stories

by Ruskin Bond

Danger lurks between these covers.. Dangerous men and women who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to gain their ends. Unlikely killers, some of the them. They wouldn't hurt a fly... but wouldn't hesitate to send their wives, husbands or grandmothers to the grave if they became inconvenient!

230 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Ramaswamy Raman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another anthology from the wonderful Ruskin Bond, surely makes the reading worth it.
All stories selected have either humour or Surprise apart from being a thriller full-on suspense, bit of horror, some weirdness but always the best writing literature wise.
The amount of pain taken for collating this is seen by the way the stories differ even maintaining the genre.
The ever trusted Ruskin Bond doesn't disappoint the reader and comes up with a collection you can read again years later and still find it interesting and fresh even though the stories are from a gone by era.

[Ram · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was buying this book, the list of authors who’s stories are in this collection didn’t look very impressive, most of them are authors who are no longer well known today. But given the praise from Ruskin Bond in his introductory note for both the stories and their authors, I decided to take a chance. After all, it is a collection of short crime stories so how wrong could it go? But my opinion changed after reading the very first story and then it was just a matter of a few hours before I had finished all of them. The stories in this collection are excellent – the crimes are devious and very cleverly conceived. The first story – Death At The Wicket – will appeal to lovers of cricket – its an ingeniously engineered murder of a batsman. Query describes the agony of a man wrongly accused and jailed of murder, but its the manner in which he proves his point that makes this story interesting. In A Considerable Murder everyone has a reason to kill the old codger, but who’s successful in the end? These and other stories, including a nice one by Ruskin Bond himself, make up this wonderful selection.

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[Harnam Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thrilling and great collection of short crime stories