Review: Interesting Look at Different Writing Style
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2013
The book contains a wide  variety of stories from the 1800s  to 1930s pulp fiction to the computer age. It is interesting to see the way that writing styles have changed over the years.  Early stories will have more gentility and brain power used by the investigator, later stores will have more intimidation, gun play and fisticuffs.  One can often get an idea of the tone that a story will follow by the opening lines:"Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary has the case in hand," said Mr. Dyer, "those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows."or"The sky looked like the back of a broad's black chiffon blouse."Most of the stories are interesting even though not true mysteries and some often have rather involved, convoluted plots that one would  not find in real life. Still, that is what fiction reading is all about, an escape from reality. Yet, one wants to keep a certain degree of reality.  Or not.  One way or the other, the stories were interesting in their own different ways whether one liked all of them or not.