The Faber Book of Murder

by Simon Rae (Editor)

Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book.

Paperback

First published November 1, 1994

About the author

Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002.

Reviews

[Theunis Snyman · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like murder mysteries. But a whole book where the murder is described in such detail is just too much. There are poems and extracts from books by many well known authors. In a murder mystery the description of the murder forms only a small part of the book, usually not even a page. The rest of the book is the following of clues and the questioning of suspects. But here it is page upon page of horrific murders. And there is even a piece where there is a eight pages with only one paragraph!! No time for a break of even for an eye to blink. And De Sade also appears and says that murder is a good thing. The only good thing is a humorous story called “The Macbeth murder mystery”. One of the characters says that evidence shows that Macbeth didn’t murder Macduff but someone else. And there is a further twist to the story. And no description of the murder. It made me laugh out loud. One ray of light in a book full of darkness.

[Astraia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great anthology that has a wide variety of stories and authors. The book is seperated by topics like Cannablilism (Freud) which makes it super easy to locate exaclty what "Murder" subject is your interest of the day.

[Will]

There is a Max Garland story in here. I wonder if it's good.