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Title: Death-Reach 2
Series:
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Editor: Cathleen Jordan
Rating:
2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages:
145
Words: 58K
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Synopsis: |
Table of Contents
UNIDENTIFIED AND DEAD - Bryce Walton
THE BIG BAJOOR - Borden Deal
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON KITE - Edward D. Hoch
FAT JOW AND THE DEMON - Robert Alan Blair
ALL THE SAME - Bill Pronzini
TWO WOMEN—TWO VICTIMS - Donald Honig
HEAVEN IS A FRAME OF MIND - Richard Hardwick
THE OPERATOR - Jack Ritchie
DEATH BY CALCULATION - Donald Martin
FIESTA TIME - Douglas Campbell
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD - John Crowe
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My Thoughts: |
I actually read this back in January when I was out of work due to covid. It had somehow gotten lost in the mix however, so I never wrote up anything about it.
This was not an actual “Alfred Hitchcock” presents anthology. These were all stories that did appear in his magazine but I don't know if that was when he was running it or after. He's not the editor here, but some other person and personally, I blame her for the utter mediocrity of this collection.
I didn't dislike any particular story but at the same time none of them hit me in the gut either like so many of Hitchcock's other collections have. It probably didn't help that I was sick with covid while reading this either.
But the biggest thing is that this book exemplifies WHY I blog at Wordpress, Blogspot and Librarything. I had added it to my LT library but never reviewed it, so at least I knew I had read it. Multiple redundancies are a bloggers best friend. Can you imagine the horror of having read this and never recording it? My record would be marred!
★★✬☆☆
