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

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A few of the stories were familiar, but were welcome re-reads, like Doyle's "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane." I'd forgotten that Doyle did occasionally have Holmes self-narrate a tale, and it's interesting to see Holmes through his own eyes. RALPH: We should also notice Shakespeare's wonderful language in this passage. He takes a common proverb at the time — "Murder will out," meaning a murder can't be kept secret — and turns it into this line: "For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ." Ham. It shall to the barber's, with your beard.- Prithee say on. He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. Say on; come to Hecuba. There's a Dr Fortune story and he's less annoying than he is sometimes. It's a grim tale of how people caught in poverty and powerlessness are easy prey for religious charlatans. To his credit, Dr Fortune's concern is for the two small children involved. He's not sentimental, but he's not ready to believe that a young boy would kill his tiny sister so that they can go to heaven. As he always does, he uses his wide base of knowledge to figure out who murdered whom and why.

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However, I’m afraid most of the tales left me cold. The Man who Hated Earthworms; Pit of Screams; and The Man Who Loved Animals are not mysteries at all and one wonders why they were included. Bailey’s The Yellow Slugs was disappointing. Reggie Fortune is hard going and this tale just wasn’t worth the effort. hesitate. He looks like maybe he’s not having such a great day already. Getting smushed is the last thing this guy needs. Ironically, the first story in the first collection of Martin Hewitt stories is "The Lenton Croft Robberies" - a delightful illustration of our fascination with animals and how they become involved in all aspects of our lives, including crimes. It's a far more interesting story than "Janissary" and shows Martin Hewitt's common sense and knowledge of human nature at its very best.I was so pleasantly surprised by this anthology. To be honest, I usually favor full-length novels over short story collections, but I had a great time reading this. There was so much variety in tone and style, so it never felt redundant or repetitive. The story introductions by editor Martin Edwards also gave some great insight into each of the writers and their careers—thanks to this, my TBR list just got even longer! Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Do you ever think about your Olympian-like power, as the author of this article does, when smushing a bug? Does it make you think twice? The “O! what a rogue and peasant slave” speech, performed live on Broadway in 1964 by Richard Burton, under the direction of Sir John Gielgud:

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This felt very familiar, although the end result was new. There is a bank robbery, and a young man with a sterling reputation is the accused. The way the issue is resolved is different but provides no opportunity for the reader to make an educated guess. (2 stars) Moreover, they can also provide – or indeed uncover – vital clues in the investigations, as illustrated by some of the best stories showcased here. This was the most entertaining of the lot, for some reason. The characters in this are all unlikeable, but given the duration of the time we spend with them, it was quite surprising how easy it was to form opinions on what could have happened and what to think of the people themselves. A man is cheating on his wife quite brazenly, and his mistress is found dead after his visit. The cats are definitely important here.(5 stars) Another anthology of vintage mystery stories from the British Library and Martin Edwards, this time themed around animals, birds and insects but happily they are all in the nature of clues rather than victims! There are fourteen stories in total, as usual including some very well known authors, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and Edgar Wallace, some that were new to me, such as Garnett Radcliffe and Clifford Witting, and some that have become stalwarts of this series, such as HC Bailey and F Tennyson Jesse.

in the wrong place at the wrong moment, while the guy next to him is miraculously spared for no reason at all. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. Animals play an extraordinarily wide variety of roles in crime stories. They may be victims, witnesses, even detectives. (p. 8) I absolutely loved this one. So bizarre and quirky, just the kind of tone I like in a classic. I really enjoyed the personalities of these characters, and the criminal that they manage to thwart was just hilarious.

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Pol. The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral; scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men. Solving the death depends on interpreting the actions of the family dog. Father Brown likes dogs, but refuses to believe in the mutt as an omniscient being who sees into the souls of men. He scorns this as a reversion to paganism with its mystical gods who take the forms of animals. I love his sweeping statement, "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense and can't see things as they are." That's telling 'em, Father. So some excellent and varied stories and, as always, despite the varying quality in these anthologies, they are a great way of being introduced to new authors to look out for. SARAH: As it turns out, Hamlet's idea to cause a criminal to confess by using a play would have been reasonable to Shakespeare's audience. There were numerous accounts at the time of criminals being so moved by a play that they confessed their crimes. These accounts were useful for playwrights and producers who were anxious to defend the theatre against those who argued that the theatre promoted immoral behavior. Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019).The British Library’s Crime Classic, Guilty Creatures, is once again edited by Martin Edwards. It’s a collection of 14 short stories, all featuring animals, birds, insects, etc.. The stories are: When my kitchen became infested with ants this summer, as it does every year, I put out ant traps, which, in another annual rite, did exactly nothing. So I did what I always end up doing — inefficiently smushing the ants one by one. Sometimes I’ll

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This story went on a little longer than I expected it to. It lays out the foundation of the place and the people pretty well before even venturing into the possible plot. There is a strange couple looking after an even stranger girl whose only sole care is for a green Parakeet. A visitor to the neighbourhood gets attached to her and therefore ends up speeding up the end of the events. This last part was not satisfying to someone like me.(2 stars) Ham. I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players. Mark it.--You say right, sir; a Monday morning; twas so indeed. I wonder if it is now time for BLCC to stop issuing these under themes and perhaps just calling them Summer and Christmas collections? For me an animal centred set of tales came out as a bit of a mongrel. The Man Who Hated Earthworms” by Edgar Wallace (Pamela’s pa) is awful, Garnett Radcliffe’s 1938 “Pit of Screams” was simply unreadable, and the rest forgettable. That includes G.K. Chesterton’s “The Oracle of the Dog” (1923) and “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” (1926), which is not up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s usual standard (as is true of many of Conan Doyle’s later stories).

The story here moves through several years before reaching a conclusion but going from start to finish felt engaging. A man loses jewellery stolen by an insect, or so he claims. These claims almost ruin his life, but he keeps moving on. I found the explanation more plausible than I would have imagined given how things had happened.(3 stars) Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries” is one of the latest offerings in the British Library Crime Classics series, edited and introduced by Martin Edwards, a superb set of books that brings out some lesser-known mysteries and thrillers from the gold age of mysteries. This release is a collection of short stories, all having to do with animals in one form or another. As is usual with these short story collections, we have a mix of known authors and unknown, interesting stories and some that may be better off forgotten. Given the ominous situation at the very beginning, I was quite sure about what events were set to occur. I was wrong about half of them. The death occurs in a zoo, and it is with extremely small chance encounters that the issue is resolved, but it feels possible for the reader to follow the logic without dwelling too much on it.(3 stars) Well written, this entry and the series as a whole are well worth seeking out. This would make a superlative selection for readers of the genre as well as an introduction to classic crime fiction from the golden age. It's so nice to see these being released for a new generation of fans.