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A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories #2007)
by
Ed Gorman ,
Jon L. Breen , Jeremiah Healy , Dick Lochte , Robert S. Levinson , Patricia Abbott , Bryon Quertermous (Goodreads Author) , Edward D. Hoch
,
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The year's finest in short crime fiction! Including Oates, Deaver, Block, Perry, Muller, and Connelly.
In the past ten years, it's become obvious that crime and mystery fiction has become the most popular form of entertainment for literary and television audiences alike. And as more readers are discovering, mystery fiction isn't limited to the longer forms. Some of the mos...more
In the past ten years, it's become obvious that crime and mystery fiction has become the most popular form of entertainment for literary and television audiences alike. And as more readers are discovering, mystery fiction isn't limited to the longer forms. Some of the mos...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
May 17th 2008
by Pegasus
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Just to clarify: I do not read many crime dramas and/or mysteries. Still, this looked interesting, and the library was about to close -- so I picked it up. What I found was, at least to me (a self-professed critic of the genre) was very much hit-or-miss. Some of the stories really shine -- Doug Allyn's Dead as a Dog, Jeffrey Deaver's Making Amends, and Sandra Scoppettone's Everybody Loves Somebody are all spectacular -- but I wouldn't wade through the collection again.
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I really liked this book, but I thought maybe one (or two) stories were more in the "horror" genre than "crime", but hey, whatever works :) Good read anyway! :)
Kind of a mixed bag, and it's definitely "light reading", but there are quite a few interesting stories. Many of these stories originally appeared in "mystery magazines" and have a certain breezy conversational tone, typical of such publications, that gets a bit repetitious. Three stars seems meager, and I enjoyed the book more than that, but I save 4/5 * for more "serious" works .
I don't usually enjoy short story collections, but I did like this one.
I'm a huge fan of short story anthologies, and lately I've been devouring mystery/crime fiction. This collection has some really great stories.
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Edward Joseph Gorman was born somewhere in the U.S. in 1941. He spent 20 years in the advertising industry before leaving to write full-time in 1984. Since then, he has been incredibly prolific, averaging 2-3 novels a year in addition to many short stories, editing anthologies, and founding and editing Mystery Scene, the new magazine of the mystery field. He has written in many genres, particularl...more
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