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The Sport of Crime
Book by Isaac Asimov
- GenresShort Stories
386 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1988
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Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh
29 books4 followersAlso known as Carol-Lynn Waugh
Asked to describe her work, Waugh replied: "I write children's books. I edit mystery anthologies with Martin H. Greenberg and others, and I am a very prominent entity in the world of teddy bears. This last facet has encompassed much of my work since the early 1980s. I was one of America's first teddy bear artists."
Asked to describe her work, Waugh replied: "I write children's books. I edit mystery anthologies with Martin H. Greenberg and others, and I am a very prominent entity in the world of teddy bears. This last facet has encompassed much of my work since the early 1980s. I was one of America's first teddy bear artists."
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September 4, 2016
I randomly bought this collection of short stories 20 years ago and just re-read it for the first time since then. The 19 crime stories are all at least loosely connected to sports, ranging from baseball to sailing to billiards. The list of authors seems impressive, as I recognized several (Asimov), and many other names rang a bell (McBain, Queen, etc.). The stories were written between the 1930s and 1980s, so some are a bit old-fashioned in style and structure, but on the whole this is an enjoyable anthology of well-written stories.
September 8, 2017
One of my fondest memories of reading as a teenager, when so many of our guilty pleasures are formed, was reading sports stories. That, mixed with the esoteric nature of this collection, and the list of authors included, meant I picked this up in a second hand store.
A motley and gimmicky selection, but nonetheless hosting some pretty impressive names (Asimov, MacDonald, McBain, Tevis, Stout, Wodehouse). None are remotely classics of the crime short story, perhaps Tevis' The Hustler notwithstanding.
It was obviously a struggle collating the stories, some have very little to do with sports, there might be a bit of skiing in a mystery set in a mountain, or a drunken adventure after a Boat Race being the only justification for their inclusion. Some duds, but those are passed through quickly, my favourites were those by Lutz, McBain and Wodehouse, who never fails.
A motley and gimmicky selection, but nonetheless hosting some pretty impressive names (Asimov, MacDonald, McBain, Tevis, Stout, Wodehouse). None are remotely classics of the crime short story, perhaps Tevis' The Hustler notwithstanding.
It was obviously a struggle collating the stories, some have very little to do with sports, there might be a bit of skiing in a mystery set in a mountain, or a drunken adventure after a Boat Race being the only justification for their inclusion. Some duds, but those are passed through quickly, my favourites were those by Lutz, McBain and Wodehouse, who never fails.
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