- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Signet (MM) (Dec 16 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451198921
- ISBN-13: 978-0451198921
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,239,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
The third volume in this "indispensable" (Publishers Weekly) series offers more of our favorite fictional detectives' inaugural cases--and includes two never-before-published stories! From classic to contemporary, from hard-boiled to cozy, this wide-ranging collection includes a tale for every taste.
Praise for the First Cases series:
"[A] smashing concept." -- Mystery News
"A mystery fan's fantasy."-- St. Louis Dispatch
Praise for the First Cases series:
"[A] smashing concept." -- Mystery News
"A mystery fan's fantasy."-- St. Louis Dispatch
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Overview of Contemporary Mysteries,
By Kent Braithwaite (Palm Desert, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: First Cases 03 New And Classic Tales Of Detection (Paperback)
Robert Randisi has succeeded masterfully in pulling together a single volume of works that provides his reader with a brief, thorough, and excellent overview of contemporary mysteries. The stories in this collection feature the "first" cases of many of today's leading sleuths. Unlike many short story anthologies, there is a great range in tone and subject matter in this FIRST CASES volume. Some stories are cozies while others are hardboiled. All fit somewhere across our genre's spectrum.I was pointed to this short story collection by my favorite mystery bookseller. I told her I needed a fresh text for this upcoming semester's course on writing mystery short stories that I regularly teach in the California State University system. Students in that class usually have a wide range of writing interests, and FIRST CASES--VOLUME 3 provides models that can apply to their varying literary efforts. It features stories by Tony Hillerman, Gar Anthony Haywood, Laura Lippman, Lawrence Block, Maxine O'Callaghan, and Anne Perry, among others. There is even a Talmage Powell story dating from the mystery genre's pulp fiction years. I am quite pleased with this collection, and it is now among my course's required texts when this semester's course begins soon.
1.0 out of 5 stars
it was allright,
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This review is from: First Cases 03 New And Classic Tales Of Detection (Paperback)
i thought it was not very good
4.0 out of 5 stars
Late-night Snacks That Add No Pounds,
This review is from: First Cases 03 New And Classic Tales Of Detection (Paperback)
These morsels are ideal for bedtime delectation. To quote "Death of the Mallory Queen" narrator Chip Harrison, the 'Archie' of Lawrence Block's laugh-out-loud take-off on Nero Wolfe and assorted generic conventions: "If this were novel length I'd say what each of them was wearing and who scowled and who looked interested, but Haig says there's not enough plot here for a novel and that you have to be more concise in short stories ... ." Lack of complexity and lightning-quick resolutions aside, pleasures are many. First published in 1949, Talmage Powell's "Her Dagger Before Me" reads like a picture postcard of the era come to life on the page. "Chee's Witch" spread lore. In "Snow," a new story, Stuart Kaminsky's Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov is a uniformed police whose future depends on his ability to woo his damaged left leg. Stories are arranged by age, from masters to the "new breed," the former being primarily male [with the exception of Maxine O'Callaghan, creator of Delilah West,according the editor, the first modern female P.I.] and the latter being women. The modern female sleuths -- Shugak, Matelli, Plum, Monaghan -- are fearless about defining for themselves the meaning of guilt and justice.
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