Tom, 3 years and 2 months agoOtto Penzler: The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
I found this book, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, on the bargain rack at Barnes and Noble. At the time I was not a big fan of mysteries, my preferred genres were science fiction and historical fiction, but this book and a few others set me on a mystery reading spree. The book opens with Edgar Allen Poe's The Purloined Letter and includes works by Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, G.K. Chesterton, A.A. Milne and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Penzler says in the Introduction that,
Attempting to compile any list of the best of anything is inevitably an exercise doomed to failure.
If that is the case, I want to read more failures.
There is only one Amazon review and it's odd. He seems upset that some of the stories don't fit his idea of what constitutes a «mystery» and gives a rank of two stars, but then goes on to say, «On the other hand, if you are caught bookless and need 567 page of choices, you will find some good stories, some seldom published historical oddies to leaf through, some to skip and certainly, along the way, something to like.»
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