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Lee Child
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Best Crime Stories of the Year
β Scribed by Lee Child
- Book ID
- 110745851
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 939 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781801105712
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021.
There is no finer form for a crime than the short story. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered, divulged and its significance determined; all else is mere embellishment. The classic mystery tale will be familiar to aficionados and casual readers alike: it was invented by Edgar Allen Poe, popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by Agatha Christie.
But mystery fiction has changed a great deal over the years - as have all things - and the writers within these pages present far more than a simple case of crime and resolution. Far from predictable, these stories provide fertile grounds of aberrant circumstances and the poor choices they lead to. You will find diverse methods and motivations, original perspectives and perils. Above all, you will find tales of the extremes of human psychology caused by despair, hate, greed, fear, envy, insanity or...
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