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Title: Death Bag
Series:
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Editor: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating:
3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages:
144
Words: 55K
Publish: 1969
This was a decent overall collection. The only story that really stood out to me though was “Murder and Lonely Hearts” by Helen Nielsen and even that was because I remembered the song “Escape”, better known as the Pina Colada song. Of course, while Pina Colada has a happy ending with a man and wife realizing they both still love the other, this is a murder story, so at least one of the pair has to die :-D For some very perverse reason, it just made me grin.
The rest of the stories were typical Alfred Hitchcock Presents kind of stories and by the end of this book I realized I needed to take another break from Alfie. This was the last Hitchcock book on my ereader, so when I removed it from my Era, I simply deleted the “Hitchcock” category and won’t put any more on until I feel the need for it. That might be a while. It also opens up another space so I can start some new series or author if I wish. Or I can just have a smaller selection on my Era. Considering how slowly I went through books in June, I’ll probably go with that second option. I’ve got over 20 series/author categories right now, which at the pace I read in June means it’ll take me two months to cycle through them all. That’s pushing the envelope for how long I like to have between books in a category.
★★★☆☆
Publisher’s Blurb & Table of Contents:
OUR GUARANTEE OF QUALITY IN CRIME
When you see the name of Alfred Hitchcock, you can be sure of the very finest in ingenious evil and shivery surprise—and the master of the macabre has never been in finer form than in this superb collection of the choicest tales ever to keep the pages turning far into the night.
INTRODUCTION
by Alfred Hitchcock
DYING A THOUSAND DEATHS
by Hal Ellson
YEAR-END CLEARANCE
by Mary Linn Roby
RUBY MARTINSON, EX-CON
by Henry Slesar
BEWARE: DANGEROUS MAN
by C. B. Gilford
MURDER AND LONELY HEARTS
by Helen Nielsen
TO AVOID A SCANDAL
by Talmage Powell
REVENGE IS BITTER-SWEET
by H. A. DeRosso
HOSPITALITY MOST SERENE
by Jack Ritchie
THE TENTH PART OF A MILLION
by Robert Colby
HORSE-COLLAR HOMICIDE
by Arthur Porges
SCHEDULE FOR AN ASSASSINATION
by Robert Edmond Alter
AMBITION
by Michael Brett
SUCCESSOR
by Richard H. Hardwick
STOP KILLING ME
by Hal Dresner
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