Book Review: “Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror,” edited by Dorothy L. Sayers
My rating: 3 (of 5) “stars” I bought a copy of this book online, I use AbeBooks and zvab.com to buy used/rare books. I bought the seventh impression of the book’s first (1928) edition, which was printed in June of 1932. This collection of short stories of three different genres – detection, mystery, and horror – contains a rather long introduction by the book’s editor, Dorothy L. Sayers. All in all, this book was a huge disappointment. I love detection stories, but don’t care for stories of mystery or horror, which include tales of ghosts, stories of the supernatural, tales […]