Oxcrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters (Paperback)

from jtck121166

Proportion of good:bad very high, I thought. Predominantly British in setting, a few humorous, some very short, none over-long. Only one unreadable. Good value.

from jtck121166

Proportion of good:bad very high, I thought. Predominantly British in setting, a few humorous, some very short, none over-long. Only one unreadable. Good value.

from jkdavies

Reading 27 short crime stories at once is a little surreal and it's the odd ones that then stand out. Fred Vargas's tale of a man with sponges to sell, Yrsa Sigurdardottir's moon based tale I'll let tem all percolate, re-read another time and see whch ones are just novel and which have ideas and ...

from jtck121166

Proportion of good:bad very high, I thought. Predominantly British in setting, a few humorous, some very short, none over-long. Only one unreadable. Good value.

from Eyejaybee

This book was compiled for a very good cause and included contributions from some excellent authors but it principally served to remind me why I so rarely read short stories. There were a couple of excellent examples, including Neil Gaiman's story about an aging Sherlock Holmes learning bee-keepi...