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Murder Most Foul
Murder Most A Collection of Great Crime Stories
352 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1988
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March 23, 2023
Spoilers.
Somewhat of a Tragedy. The Murderer killed the Person who blackmailed him.
Ultimatically he did nothing but dared to be born to a Woman who murderer someone.
His Wedding would have been impossible, and his Social Standing would have been devastated.
The True Villian is the Class Structure of the Time.
Luckily, or less appropiate, the Murderer is mainly interested in Money, and Status, and does not regret any further killings.
I realy hope its not a implied eughenics Argument of him having the Murder in his DNA, or some Stuff.
The Murderer is also a Woman, hm? Tell me about it.
Yeah no, it was pretty obvious its not a Woman. The Clue, and the resulting Twist where very predictable if you ever read any of her Books before.
Cant realy say the rest of the Setting, or Charakter left any impression on me.
While fastly changing the Source Material, I cant deny Margret Rutherfords Version as traveling Theater Group was a nice Idea.
Somewhat of a Tragedy. The Murderer killed the Person who blackmailed him.
Ultimatically he did nothing but dared to be born to a Woman who murderer someone.
His Wedding would have been impossible, and his Social Standing would have been devastated.
The True Villian is the Class Structure of the Time.
Luckily, or less appropiate, the Murderer is mainly interested in Money, and Status, and does not regret any further killings.
I realy hope its not a implied eughenics Argument of him having the Murder in his DNA, or some Stuff.
The Murderer is also a Woman, hm? Tell me about it.
Yeah no, it was pretty obvious its not a Woman. The Clue, and the resulting Twist where very predictable if you ever read any of her Books before.
Cant realy say the rest of the Setting, or Charakter left any impression on me.
While fastly changing the Source Material, I cant deny Margret Rutherfords Version as traveling Theater Group was a nice Idea.
April 19, 2022
I'm not sure why some people found some of these stories frightening. For me, they were more bizarre than frightening. Not "bizarre" bizarre, but "The Twilight Zone" bizarre. I think I'll stick with Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Somerset Maugham, and Rex Stout from now on.
August 5, 2017
Excellent compilation of crime and horror stories. Wish I could read this collection again for the first time.
April 14, 2021
Series of short stories by various authors - all grisly, gruesome and ingenious! My father bought this for me from a second hand shop when I was 11 & still love it.
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