Twelve Red Herrings is exactly as the title says. A red herring is a false trail, bait that is meant to be taken, leading to the wrong conclusion. Jeffry Archer is a master with this style, and wrote twelve short stories, each with a red herring dropped somewhere in it. The book boasts differentiating plots, and is a careful collection of stories that deal with humorous and farcical realities. They are all rather interesting in their own way, but they all seem to share a link which doesn’t exist. Such is the style it was written in. Even if one doesn’t really look for the red herrings Archer has left, the stories are wonderful tales of chances and situations that don’t happen to the common man. They are intriguing, and each ending is satisfying, and while some are predictable, others are much harder to see coming. The last story has four endings to it, all with some kind of emotion to the ending. Overall, the book is an enticing and comical adaptation of the everyday world we live in.