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Chargement... Carnival of Crime: The Best Mystery Stories of Fredric Brown (1985)par Fredric Brown
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. What happens next when a bride on her honeymoon loses a game of chess to a dwarf? Or when a human cannonball has an argument with his wife? Or when an amnesiac convinces his doctor to let him out of the asylum? Fredric Brown likes to pose such questions and then fashion nifty little stories to explore the answers. The tales in this collection are arranged chronologically from 1940 through 1953; with a few late specimens (1960's) of Brown's specialty, the short-short. It's fun to watch the stories improve in quality as the author matures, really hitting his stride in 1947 with the astonishing "Don't Look Behind You", where the narrator explains how and why he plans to kill you. That's right, you. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In these 23 stories, Brown never rails to surprise and delight. Time after time the reader anticipates the ending only to discover that once more the author has proved too clever. Yet Brown never cheats, never feeds false clues, and his endings are always plausible. His imagination is by turns puckish, grim, outlandishbut forever fresh.Brown s stories run from the fifty-word Mistake to a novelette ( The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches ). In Granny s Birthday, a two-page short short, with Granny supervising like a benign queen, the party goes splendidly, marred only by manslaughter and murder." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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