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Five Minute Mysteries Reader
From the tremendously popular "Five-Minute Mysteries" series comes this reader of more than 70 challenging cases that can be solved in five minutes or less. Are you up to the task of solving such mysteries as "Murder at 249 Hanover Street," "The Case of the Body in Cubicle #12," and "A Witness in the Park"? Fraud, kidnapping, petty theft, and murder -- every armchair detective will face the challenge of solving every sort of crime as they unearth clues and foil felons. "Ken Weber's short mysteries will strain your deductive skills, as well as test your logical thinking...these stumpers are clever but fair, and they're all deftly written."--Games Magazine.
550 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 1981
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October 27, 2021
1st time. And only time.
I have read several short mystery collections in my time. I find them fun little mental exercises. This was by far one of the worst. Very few of the stories could actually be solved by the information provided in the story. A lot of them were solved by if you knew when Lenin died, or when polyester came into style, or how turtles travel between habitats.
Incredibly disappointing and boring. I only finished it because I was hoping it would get better. It didn't.
I have read several short mystery collections in my time. I find them fun little mental exercises. This was by far one of the worst. Very few of the stories could actually be solved by the information provided in the story. A lot of them were solved by if you knew when Lenin died, or when polyester came into style, or how turtles travel between habitats.
Incredibly disappointing and boring. I only finished it because I was hoping it would get better. It didn't.
March 31, 2017
I am a great fan of criminal books. My favourite author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I’m just in love with his well-known character Sherlock Holmes. As a lover of exciting criminal books, I have searched a lot of these in book shops and libraries in different Bulgarian cities. But I have never ever heard of the author Ken Weber. I found his “Five-minute Mysteries” at a book festival, so I got it for like 1$ or something… The book shows 40 short mysteries that you have to solve. There’s a question after every case.
“The perfect book for when you have a few minutes to kill. The stories – some about the crime, some about evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on – are told with all the clues you need to solve the question posed at the end.”
This book is really a thing you should own because you can learn a lot from it and train your logical thinking.
“The perfect book for when you have a few minutes to kill. The stories – some about the crime, some about evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on – are told with all the clues you need to solve the question posed at the end.”
This book is really a thing you should own because you can learn a lot from it and train your logical thinking.
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March 28, 2016It was ok, I guess. I would recommend this to anyone who likes to solve mysteries and enjoy the rush of getting them correct.
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