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50 GREATEST DETECTIVE STORIES
IT IS THE HOUR WHEN CRIME, VICE AND WICKEDNESS REIGN... The speck of dust on the carpet... Half-smoked cigar... Blood stains and a corpse... Welcome to the crime scene and feel free to cross... 50 Greatest Detective Stories is an unparalleled treasury of detective fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from writers across varied generations, this collection charts the detective stories, making the reader's adrenaline rise and fall as the episodes unfold. Each story takes one into the labyrinth of the unfamiliar within the familiar. Now it is your turn to be the detective as you read on and decode the mystery. Do enter the labyrinth!
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582 pages, Paperback
Published January 5, 2022
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April 6, 2022
As the title suggests, 50 Greatest Detective Stories is a collection of detective fiction that every fan will enjoy. From whodunit to howcatchem, it covers finest of stories from famous writers across generations making the reader's adrenaline rise with each episode. From Edgar Allan Poe to Arthur Conan Doyle to O. Henry to Dorothy Sayers to Anna Catherine Green, this book has everything for a detective fiction lover. Story after story keeps you hooked till the very last page of the book.
Simple language intertwined with mysterious crime scenes and smart detective figures who are capable of figuring it out all makes the reader in you want to go quick and yet slow down. If you have a knack for detective stories, grab the book, enter the labyrinth and decode the mystery!
Simple language intertwined with mysterious crime scenes and smart detective figures who are capable of figuring it out all makes the reader in you want to go quick and yet slow down. If you have a knack for detective stories, grab the book, enter the labyrinth and decode the mystery!
April 29, 2023
Great book!It summarises great stories into a few pages
June 13, 2023
Short and sweet
July 14, 2023
Found some gems, others were just okay and left me wondering if they were detective stories at all.
June 23, 2024
Title is misleading.
Replace with "My 50 favorite detective stories".
A Cask of Amontillado is not a detective story.
I bought this expecting to read The Hound of the Baskervilles and The August Dupin Trilogy....
.....Where is it?
Replace with "My 50 favorite detective stories".
A Cask of Amontillado is not a detective story.
I bought this expecting to read The Hound of the Baskervilles and The August Dupin Trilogy....
.....Where is it?
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews