Reviews

Crime For Christmas by Richard Dalby, Peter Cushing

clevergirl216's review

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

These stories were well-thought out but were a little too intellectual for me. Made me think of books you would study in a literature class. I didn’t want to think that hard and had a hard time staying awake.

chloeimogen's review

1.0

Just plain awful. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the only good stories were the ones by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. As to the other stories, the editor seems to have picked the most terribly written and inappropriate stories he could find (Dear Mr Dalby, suicide hasn't been considered a crime since 1961, so Thomas Hardy's The Grave by the Handpost should have no place in an anthology about crime published in 1991). The only other saving grace was the cover, which was a large part of the reason I bought this book, to be honest.