{"id":3641,"date":"2007-03-13T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:26:21","slug":"book-report-great-true-stories-of-crime-mystery-detection-by-readers-digest-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/book-report-great-true-stories-of-crime-mystery-detection-by-readers-digest-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, & Detection by Reader’s Digest (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought this book at St. Michael’s book fair earlier this year; between Great Tales of Mystery & Suspense<\/a><\/i>, my reading pace for the year is shot.<\/p>\n

This book runs 574 pages and comes from the pages of Reader’s Digest<\/i> magazine from the first half of the last century. It collects murder mysteries, a couple of ghost stories, and a long piece on the Alger Hiss espionage (starring Congressman Richard Nixon as the hero, which explains why former Vice-President Nixon offered a blurb on the back).<\/p>\n

Some of the stories overlap with The World’s Most Infamous Crimes and Criminals<\/a><\/i>, but they’re told with a punchier (partially digested) style. Also, overall, this book was not as depressing as The World’s Most Infamous Crimes and Criminals<\/i> as it didn’t have matter-of-fact accounts of genocide.<\/p>\n

Worth the buck, except for the part where it made me spend a week or so reading it. Looks like I’ll be reporting on coloring books for the next couple of weeks so I can get my average up.<\/p>\n

Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n