Guilty Creatures (British Library Crime Classics): A Menagerie of Mysteries: 91

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C. Bailey’s old-fashioned yet strikingly contemporary “The Yellow Slugs,” and the cat in Clifford Witting’s admirably concise one-off “Hanging by a Hair” offer clues or red herrings instead of violence. But there’s a man going around the neighbourhood shooting birds, and he seems to be unable to tell the difference between jackdaws and crows (which everyone seems to think it’s OK to shoot). The Redbury Stakes has attracted significant interest from the betting fraternity, with sizeable amounts of money riding on Janissary as the pre-race favourite.

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The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. The Hornet’s Nest” ends the collection, another dark tale but really probably the most enjoyable story in this collection.

Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. harming you in your house if they come out of no where and try to kill you with there dirty venom like spiders. A few of the stories were familiar, but were welcome re-reads, like Doyle's "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers but the review si entirely based on my ownreading experience.

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PIt of Screams" by Garnett Radcliffe is another one I'd read before, but I'd forgotten the trick ending, which is a very pleasing one. The anti-heroes in this story have a longer tale (which I found out thanks to the introduction), of which this is a small piece. Father Brown likes dogs, but refuses to believe in the mutt as an omniscient being who sees into the souls of men. I'm a great admirer of the British Library Crime Classics short story collections and its editor Martin Edwards.

Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key witness, the sleuth’s trusted companion. Some of the stories are weaker, mystery-wise, such as "The Man Who Shot Birds" by Mary Fitt, but the tale itself is so entertaining that that can be overlooked. Pyrrhus’ vengeance for his father's death is a reminder of the duty laid on Hamlet, as well as on Laertes and Fortinbras. Edwards provides a short biography of each author as well as the background of the publication of each story.

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The first is The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane which is written from Holmes’ point of view as it occurred after Holmes’ and Watson’s retirement. The way the issue is resolved is different but provides no opportunity for the reader to make an educated guess.SARAH: And it's brilliant that Hamlet is inspired by the arrival of the company of players, getting from them the idea of using a piece of theatre to expose Claudius — a play within the play. There's a story by Clifford Witting that reminded me of how much I enjoyed the one Witting book I found at a library years ago. It’s something that gives this anthology an interesting edge, very much in line with the predatory characteristics one might observe within the animal kingdom itself. Animals such as monkeys, horses, dogs and birds are highlighted and are victims, witnesses and detectives in these impossible crimes. It’s a rare anthology that isn’t hit and miss; however, unlike Martin’s usual fare, Guilty Creatures contains as many duds and mehs as gems.