Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense

By: Linda Landrigan

Book Overview

This impressive anthology reflects the diversity of every issue of the magazine: historicals and police procedurals, cozies and noirs, humor and suspense. From Jim Thompson in the fifties and Donald... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933648031
• ISBN13: 9781933648033
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An excellent mystery anthology

I'd never heard of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, though I am an avid reader of mystery and suspense novels. If this anthology is an indicator of what's to be found in the magazine, then the montly is definitely worth a look. Most of these thirty-four stories are very well done. There were several that didn't quite hold my interest, but that wasn't because they were poorly written: they just didn't grab me. There are several standouts in the anthology, including a wonderfully wry short by Ed McBain. Many of the names in the anthology are familiar. Some stories represent early works, some later. In any event, any mystery fan will enjoy this anthology. It will provide several evenings of fun mystery reading when you're not up to tackling the latest novel. Jerry