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The Collected Stories of Amanda Cross (A Kate Fansler Mystery #12)
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Amanda Cross
Amanda Cross is master of the American literary whodunit. In her delicately menacing short fiction, assembled here in one volume, dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals, and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. Among the compelling intrigues: The cold-blooded murder of Mrs. Byron Lloyd, shot dead during a writers' panel discussion . . . the e...more
ebook, 192 pages
Published
August 17th 2011
by Ballantine Books
(first published 1997)
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Dec 22, 2009
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I read these mainly because I had come to the end of all my Cross books (except for the very odd penultimate one), and was sad to have done so. In that context each story was a delight, a little like eating a very small box of very fine chocolates. I don't know what someone might make of these stories if they (the person not the stories) were not very familiar with Kate and her author. As Cross/Heilbrun says herself in her own introduction to the book, I don't typically read detective short stor...more
I seldom read short stories because I like really getting to know the characters in a book. I found, however, that I was only reading a page or two of a novel before going to bed - so I decided to read Amanda Cross's Collected Stories thinking that one story a night would be a good going-to-bed read. I was right! These are not "murder mysteries", but thinking mysteries; puzzle solving stories.
Now - back to a much longer book!
Now - back to a much longer book!
Can one read too many Amanda Cross mysteries? I would have said no before I read this collection. Reading these stories in a row is much less satisfying than one full book at a time.
Cross writes witty, elegant and very literary mysteries. There may be bodies but rarely blood. Our English prof/investigator, Kate Fansler, always teaches me something new and interesting in the course of her tales. And I've long thought that her husband is the only other man I might consider marrying (after my own h...more
Cross writes witty, elegant and very literary mysteries. There may be bodies but rarely blood. Our English prof/investigator, Kate Fansler, always teaches me something new and interesting in the course of her tales. And I've long thought that her husband is the only other man I might consider marrying (after my own h...more
Oct 06, 2011
Michele bookloverforever
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I love Kate Fansler stories and have done so for 30 years.
didn't know she wrote stories. very nice to read her elegant, over-long sentences again, perfect for waiting for my car's oil to be changed.
Jun 09, 2012
Rita
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Apr 17, 2012
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A psuedonym of Carolyn G. Heilbrun.
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