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A review by lizabethstucker
Murder By The Book: Mysteries For Bibliophiles by Martin Edwards
3.0
3 out of 5.
Subtitled "Mysteries for Bibliophiles", this is a collection of sixteen short stories published between the 1930s and early 1970s. The basic theme is mysteries from the world of books, victims or perpetrators who are authors or booksellers or others with a literary connection.
I was expecting to adore this book as older mysteries are usually my favorites. Plus there are some rather big names of mystery fiction from that period represented here. Don't get me wrong, these weren't bad, they were just meh. It was rather boring a read. None of the stories rated high enough to be a favorite or low enough to hate.
Contents:
"A Lesson in Crime" by G. D. H. & M. Cole (aka George Douglas Howard & Margaret Cole, husband & wife)
"Trent and the Ministering Angel" by E. C. Bentley
"A Slice of Bad Luck" by Nicholas Blake
"The Strange Case of the Megotherium Thefts" by S. C. Roberts
"Malice Domestic" by Philip MacDonald
"A Savage Game" by A. A. Milne
"The Clue in the Book" by Julian Symons
"The Manuscript" by Gladys Mitchell
"A Man and His Mother-in-Law" by Roy Vickers
"Grey's Ghost" by Michael Innes
"Dear Mr. Editor..." by Christianna Brand
"Murder in Advance" by Marjorie Bremner
"A Question of Character" by Victor Canning
"The Book of Honour" by John Creasey
"We Know You're Busy Writing..." by Edmund Crispin
"Chapter and Verse" by Ngaio Marsh
Subtitled "Mysteries for Bibliophiles", this is a collection of sixteen short stories published between the 1930s and early 1970s. The basic theme is mysteries from the world of books, victims or perpetrators who are authors or booksellers or others with a literary connection.
I was expecting to adore this book as older mysteries are usually my favorites. Plus there are some rather big names of mystery fiction from that period represented here. Don't get me wrong, these weren't bad, they were just meh. It was rather boring a read. None of the stories rated high enough to be a favorite or low enough to hate.
Contents:
"A Lesson in Crime" by G. D. H. & M. Cole (aka George Douglas Howard & Margaret Cole, husband & wife)
"Trent and the Ministering Angel" by E. C. Bentley
"A Slice of Bad Luck" by Nicholas Blake
"The Strange Case of the Megotherium Thefts" by S. C. Roberts
"Malice Domestic" by Philip MacDonald
"A Savage Game" by A. A. Milne
"The Clue in the Book" by Julian Symons
"The Manuscript" by Gladys Mitchell
"A Man and His Mother-in-Law" by Roy Vickers
"Grey's Ghost" by Michael Innes
"Dear Mr. Editor..." by Christianna Brand
"Murder in Advance" by Marjorie Bremner
"A Question of Character" by Victor Canning
"The Book of Honour" by John Creasey
"We Know You're Busy Writing..." by Edmund Crispin
"Chapter and Verse" by Ngaio Marsh