Presents an anthology of twenty-five tales of mystery, murder, and suspense, selected from the archives of "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" This description may be from another edition of this product.
I recently acquired this anthology in Portuguese, and I must say it's a nice, short book, with some pretty cool stories. There are 14 different stories, with no connections between them, except that they share one quality: murder. Except for one story, the main character always:a) killsb) gets killedc) sees somebody get killedThe quality from one story to another varies wildly, although I must say all of them are worth reading. My favorite one is "Millionaire for five minutes."Talking about an anthology is complicated, because new characters show up only to be discarded in 20 pages, when another story starts. Their personalities and actions vary, as one would expect, from evil to naive and so on. But they're all believable, something rare in most mystery stories.If you happen to find this book somewhere, or if it get's reissued, I'd say you should definately buy it if you're into mysteries
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