Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781405032575 (140503257X)
Publish date: October 6th 2006
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Short Stories,
Short Story Collection,
American Novels
An anthology of shorts stories mostly centered around criminal breaches of trust. It is quite easy to empathize with the motivation behind some of the wrongdoings, and might even give a less scrupulous person unsavory ideas. As with his other collections of short stories, there is always a little tw...
I always have a book of short stories on the go somewhere in the house ... this one was quite ecclectic ... some I loved others not so much.
Archer is quite good at taking urban legends and fleshing them out into real stories. And I am quite a fan of stories with a twist at the end. I blame the teachers who started me out with Stories from the Twilight Zone and The Most Dangerous Game And Other Stories of Adventure and The Illustrated ...