by Martin Edwards
I used this collection of thirteen Christmas-themed Golden Age detective short stories as a sampler to help me decide which writers to read in 2019. I found two authors I want to read more of. Most of the rest were entertaining but not enticing. The stories I enjoyed most were both by women. "...
On the whole, it's pretty much a safe bet that just about any anthology collection is bound to be hit or miss: some stories will hit all the marks, while others will be, at best, 'meh'. Silent Nights is one of the rare ones where even the weaker stories are better than average. I reviewed the firs...
Book themes for Advent: Read a book with a wreath or with pines or fir trees on the cover. Silent Nights is the first of (at this point) two Christmas mystery short story anthologies in the British Library's "Crime Classics" series, edited by Martin Edwards. The anthology combines stories by well-...
Like any collection of short stories, this one is a mixed bag. Martin Edwards is, of course, an expert in the stories and authors selected here, but as with his other selections, and indeed any other selection, his tastes and favourites are somewhat different to mine. And, let's not forget that so...
I'm reading this with BrokenTune and Themis Athena as a buddy read and since it's a book of short stories, I'm marking my status updates as reviews for the individual stories I've read to date. My 4 stars is a sorta/kinda average of the three stories, which I've rated individually below. I skipp...
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