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Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare

Cyril Hare

Start date: January 1, 2023

Finish date: January 31, 2023

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Why we're reading this: Winner of the poll for our January group read.
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Jan 11, 2023 Sandy rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery-classic, mystery-detective-grp, own, short-story-collection, z2023-own-24, rread-2023

While I enjoyed this collection, I read the first few much too close together. All the stories have imaginative twists, but they need to be widely spaced or the novelty wears off. Hare is an excellent writer, knows the legal system, and his Pettigrew character is one of my favorites. I think his full-length novels are better than the short stories and the longest story in this collection is one of the best.

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