Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

By Julian Hawthorne

In the six volumes of the Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the first volume, we find stories written by American authors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781291650938

Reviews for Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

[reading_fox · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Urgh, one of the very few books I've been unable to finish. Just turgid dull dross all the way through. And given that this is acollection of short stories by 'famous' authors that really is quite impressive. Dickens is there - and to be fair his story was at least readable. The others weren't. I skimmed one, started the next, skimmed that, started another, began skimming again, reached about halfway through the book and thought enough is enough.Despite the title there are no detectives present (at least as far as I got) - and the "Mysteries" aren't very mysterious, merelty poor authorial attempts to insert some supernatural agent into an otherwise mundade, prolonged and dragged out Tale. In some instances the editor claims to have simplified and imporived the langauge and narrative flow. Heaven help those poor souls who read the original versions. Wordy and overblown, excessively melodramatic descriptions that run on for sentances and paragrapghs without relent, providing nothing more than an attempt to sound out the atmosphere of gloomy grey clouds and dark forboding situations when in truth nothing like that is present, and no plot or action develops, likewise neither does any character stand out in contrast or illumination worth considering. You get the gist. The ebook formatting was also particularly annoying with many SPIRITUAL words capitalised throughout as if to AID the reader in the UNDERSTANDING of whatever it is we are TALKING about. I hope this was soely the ebook formatting although I suspect it may be the editiors particular INTENSION.it's dire. Don't bother.

[antiquary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A wide range of good material --Hawthorne, Poe but also Melville D.Post, Bierce, etc.