The Mystery & Suspense Novella MEGAPACK®

by Fletcher Flora, H. Bedford-Jones, Jacques Futrelle

Many people consider the novella form -- 17,500 words to 40,000 words -- the perfect length. It's long enough to flesh out characters, but short enough to read in one sitting while still having plenty of plot. This volume collects 8 crime and suspense AS I LIE DEAD, by Fletcher Flora
RENDEZVOUS, by H. Bedford-Jones
DEATH BY TELEPHONE, by James W. Marvin
THE SCARLET THREAD, by Jacques Futrelle
TALISMAN OF DOOM, by James W. Marvin
CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER, by Hugh C. Weir
TERROR PANICS THE CRIME QUIZ, by David X. Manners
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LUTHER TRANT, by Edwin Balmer & William MacHarg

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398 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 17, 2017

About the author

Fletcher Flora was born in Parsons, Kansas in 1914. Flora began writing soon after returning from World War II. His crime and mystery short stories and novels were published in magazines like Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mr., Cosmopolitan, and in Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery anthologies. He received the Cock Robin Mystery Award for his first hard cover novel, Killing Cousins in 1960. Flora wrote over 150 short stories and 13 novels during his writing career. Three of his works are published under the house name, Ellery Queen. Timothy Harrison was also a pseudonym for his work, Hot Summer.

Reviews

[L. Shosty · Rating 3 out of 5]

A four-star book, but for a few issues. The first five stories were great, but I don't believe any of them were novellas. A novella, as defined by most of the professional genre writer organizations in America, is 17,500-40,000 words in length. Without knowing the exact word counts, it didn't feel like the first three, at the least, were long enough, whereas the final offering felt more like a full-length novel (40,000+ words). Because I'm a writer, and a stickler for these definitions besides, this killed a little of my enjoyment. The stories themselves, with the exception of the final story, and two meh offerings before that, were very good. Anytime more than half of a collection is good, I recommend it to others. I'm doing that with this book, as well. There's plenty here for the mystery/thriller fan to enjoy, and at ninety-nine cents (USD), the price is perfect to take a chance for so much material.