- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; First Edition edition (April 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0192880756
- ISBN-13: 978-0192880758
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
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`It was the scream of a man in the extremest agony of pain and terror. His eyes still stared into the soldiers face, but the fury had left them like a flame suddenly extinguished.' These stories are a macabre celebration of the ingenuity of murder. Victims meet their ends in ways which are sometimes gruesome, sometimes tragic, but always imaginative - involving methods as diverse as sword swallowing, triggered bank vaults, and exploding sweets. In some cases the murderer makes a critical slip, allowing a sufficiently cunning detective to solve the crime, but in at least one the perpetrator succeeds in committing the perfect murder ... a chilling but curiously admirable act, which has a breathtaking subtlety in its execution. Jack Adrian's collection brings together stories by well-known writers in the genre, such as F. Tennyson Jesse, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers.
About the Author
Jack Adrian is a leading authority on all aspects of popular fiction of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has edited single-author collections by writers as diverse as E. F. Benson, Edgar Wallace, and Rafael Sabatini, and numerous general anthologies.
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The Inventiveness of Murder, July 22 2001
By bibliomane01 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Twelve Tales of Murder (Paperback)
Jack Adrian's anthology of murder stories in the Oxford Twelves series is an agreeably fiendish collection supplying enough chills and thrills to last through many a dark and stormy night. As usual, the anthologists in this series comb through the 19th and early 20th centuries for their wares and the authors represented are both famous and obscure. The gruesomeness of the murder methods in "An Illustration of Modern Science" (1896) would meet with the approval of Hannibal Lecter himself, and Conan Doyle would be hard pressed to conjure up a more sinister portrait of London than the one we see in "Fogbound" (1903). As for the disquieting "Portrait of a Murderer" (1942), it leaves the reader with a completely new perspective on the meaning of fatherly love. I am a big fan of the Oxford Twelves series (I have them all) and heartily recommend this book as well.
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