Alive and Screaming 3Stars

 

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Title: Alive and Screaming
Series: ----------
Editor: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 163
Words: 61K

There are times when I read this Hitchcock collections that I get really jazzed up. Other times, I simply sit back and enjoy the ride. My experience with this book was of the latter.

I enjoyed this while reading it but honestly, not a single story stood out. Even now, 2 weeks after I’ve read it, I couldn’t tell you from memory any of the storylines. It wasn’t that they were bad, they just “were”.

It’s like drinking a caramel latte. In and of themselves, they are just good. But sometimes you get that little “extra” something that makes it better and you remember those and wish that you could get that particular barista to make your caramel latte’s forever. But that doesn’t happen and you still enjoy the latte the next day. But after years of drinking them, it all kind of blends together in your mind. Except the bad ones or the REALLY good ones. That doesn’t mean you are dissatisfied with your daily latte though.

I guess my point is that this book was a caramel latte and Hitchcock would have been even fatter if he’d had caramel latte’s to drink back when he was alive. So here’s to looking at you kid.
~sips~

★★★✬☆

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Table of Contents:

The Hand from the Past—CHRISTOPHER ANVIL

The Confident Killer—TALMAGE POWELL

The Blue Man—WENZELL BROWN

The Murderess—MAX VAN DER VEER

Light o’ Love—FLETCHER FLORA

Positive Print—RICHARD DEMING

A Weighty Promotion—BRUCE HUNSBERGER

Death, the Black-eyed Denominator—ED LACY

Beware the Righteous Man—DICK ELLIS

A Message from Marsha—JAMES HOLDING

Seven Million Suspects—FRANKLIN M. DAVIS, JR.

Heaven is a Frame of Mind—RICHARD HARDWICK

The Eye of the Pigeon—EDWARD D. HOCH

The Tuesday Club—C. B. GILFORD

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