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Accompany Thomas Stanwick as he hears about a crime, arrives on the scene, interviews the authorities and witnesses, examines the body, surveys the surroundings, and announces which suspect to arrest. All under 5 minutes. You'll be right there with him for dozens of different crime scenes, and if it takes you less than five minutes to bust the case open, consider yourself a match for the brilliant Stanwick. 96 pages, 40 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
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Excellent mystery puzzles!.......2002-06-21
Smith's clever mini mysteries kept me entertained for hours. I recommend this book to all amateur logicians. I'm anxious to start his Five Minute Crimebusters.
Greatly Disappointed.......2000-12-15
The book was greatly disappointing. Rather than interesting mysteries to read, they were simple and futile exercises in solving the same logic exercise over and over. For example, 5 suspects: One is lying, the other is telling the truth, the third is maybe telling the truth, the fourth is maybe lieing, etc. This was repeated throughout most of the stories. They were simply too tiring to read. The other few stories that did not have that approach had only one person in the story, so there was no mystery as to the identity of the culprit. You can better spend your money with mysteries by Hy Conrad. Hy Conrad's books are more enjoyable to read.
Worth reading .........2000-11-26
I liked this book quite a bit, although I was disappointed to find that at least 1/3 of the 'mysteries' were actually logic puzzles. All in all, though, I'd have to recommend it.
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Professor of Criminology Dr. Quicksolve and his son Junior bust crimes wide open by simply. . .paying attention! Join them as they visit over 40 crime scenes, and solve each mystery in minutes. Figure out how they did it. Check each clue to see if it's real or just a red herring. The puzzles present robberies, kidnappings, firebombings, prison escapes and more. Sharpen your wits and become a master detective too.
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Good, clean fun!.......1999-11-19
These mini-mysteries (at a page or two each) provide hours of fun at bedtime, in the bathroom, or around the family coffee table after dinner. If you're in the market for family fun, this is the book for you.
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The Detective Story showcases 22 mysteries written by 15 leading authors. This engaging text was carefully constructed using the finest, most captivating stories from such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, William Brittain, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and many more!
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It's crime time in the wonderful world of full-color mazes-and children can find their way to solving a whodunit and catching the thief. A robbery has taken place at the Great Cake Bake contest during the annual county fair: a dirty, rotten scoundrel has snatched some of the delicious goodies. In order to save the day and collar the guilty, kids will have to gather their detective equipment without stepping where they shouldn't, collect clues in a variety of rooms (no backtracking allowed), place cameras in front of each house to get a picture of the culprit, and more. At the end of the day, young smarties who complete all the mazes will capture the bad guy, too.
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Third graders love them!.......2007-01-09
I bought two different Roger Moreau maze books (on request from parents as a favorite maze-book author). Our two grandsons are in third grade and both love to work mazes and they really like to solve mysteries. Roger Moreau makes mazes fun and interesting and challenging! Both books were a hit!
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Amazing mazes, crafty whodunits, marvelous visual tricks, sly lateral thinking puzzles, and stupefying optical illusions: all these fun challenges--packaged in a cool book that's shaped like a magnifying glass--will give kids a brain workout they'll really enjoy. Every page has a picture of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 magnifying glasses; that symbol indicates how easy or treacherously difficult the puzzle will be. For example, finding the guilty party in "Foul Play," a one-glass Dr. Quicksolve mystery, should be relatively simple for budding sleuths. The "Mystery Ruins" maze (3), where you must get from point A to point B through a series of small and winding paths, is harder. And you'll need very sharp eyes and a sharp mind to solve "Circle Quest," a 5 magnifying glass optical illusion. One thing's for sure: by the time kids are done with every one of these, they'll feel super-smart.
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- A NEW AND TRIM COMPENDIUM OF EVERY ASPECT OF THE MYSTERY GENRE
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Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.
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A NEW AND TRIM COMPENDIUM OF EVERY ASPECT OF THE MYSTERY GENRE.......2007-05-11
Reviewed by Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum (see all my other reviews at BOOKREPORTER.COM
Our culture is awash "Mystery Related" ephemera. Bookstores, public libraries, school and college libraries offer all kinds of "how to write a mystery" to scholarly and not so scholarly books, movies, plays, short stories, anthologies, magazines and true crime/true crime novels.. For the novice just coming to the genre this can be an overwhelming, Questions like: Who do I read? What should I read? What are differences between books by Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers or more contemporary writers like Carol Goodman and Dennis Lehane. Just reading reviews is not always the most informative way to choose. In an amazingly large novel form which includes such a diverse selection ranging from: the cozy, procedurals, cop/buddy series, lay detective's adventures, locked room, spy thrillers, romance laced "mystery," historicals, sci-fi and other forms of "mystery stories" are different and usually each attracts its own fans. And of course, experimenting is the best guide to choosing ones' niche.
Nobody, scholar or otherwise can compile a "What Mystery Writers To Read ..." compendium and include every writer who has penned a genre story, regardless of form.
Nevertheless many such books are available and usually helpful. The "Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing" debuted in 1999 is still the most formidable and approachable text covering mystery writers, plots, characters, especially those who appear in a series and much more arcane tidbits. Thus at this hearty staple of the genre is a major source for Rosemary Herbert's encyclopedic "Whodunit: A Who's Who in Crime and Mystery Writing." As is the way of the world her book is not an imprint of the older contribution made by the "Oxford...." She has courageously taken on the task of bringing a new tome that is fresh, literate and timely updated.
Over the past eight years the market has been swamped with every kind of "straight" mysteries along with new approaches to writing them. New authors have emerged who have become stars and whose work is outstanding. Between the easy availability of books through libraries, chain bookstores, genre specific bookstores and independent book sellers mingled with the world of used material readers will gain enormous insight and information from Ms. Herbert's magnum opus: "Whodunit A Who's Who in Crime and Mystery Writing. Happy sleuthing!
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Excessive exclusions of important potential entries renders this reference of little value........2007-02-17
Obviously in a field as large as mystery writing some limits had to be established to produce this relatively small book, somewhat longer than 200 pages. However, in this case the limits are so restrictive as to make this book of relatively little value to the mystery enthusiast.
The book is organized alphabetically, with a section for each letter of the alphabet and an index. Although there is no section for X and the sections for Y and Z are only a half-page each. The entries present are well written, but there are simply too few entries. For example, although the book's title is "Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime and Mystery Writing" by my count there are only three authors listed under A and seven under T.
Because of the excessive pruning of significant and even important potential entries, this is not a book than can be recommend as a reference.
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Solve the crimes...if you can. Armchair detectives who love a baffling mystery will find just what they crave in this collection of wickedly devious whodunits. These are stories where the writer plays skillfully with the reader's mind and where the pivotal piece of evidence appears at first to make no sense--even though it must. Match wits with some stupendously clever sleuths (including Sherlock Holmes) on their cases and try to figure out the puzzles, clues, and marvelous twists that unlock the mysteries. Every story is brain-busting fun.
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Best mystery book ever!.......2005-04-27
This is the best mystery book ever. It's fun for all ages and gets you thinking.You won't regret buying it. you might even read the stories more htan once.
Not totally well thought out.......2005-03-02
The book is separated into four parts: the first is your classic whodunit Encyclopedia Brown style mysteries. The second is primarily logic puzzles (A, B, C, and D live on 1,2,3, and 4, with the following clues, who lives where?). The third are stories that are drawn from online mysteries where people could ask questions; those quesions and answers are provided, but you cannot ask your own. The fourth is also logic, very easy. However, there are mistakes littered throughout the book (The solution to "Four into 16" is completely incorrect) and misleading grammer (if someone always lies, but he says A did this and B did this, this does not necessarily mean that BOTH A and B did NOT do their respective deeds). For a mystery book, the authors needed to be MUCH more careful in devising their clues.
Perfect!.......2004-07-24
This is a great book! The stories are not to hard, but not to easy. Perfect!I strongly recommend this book to any readers who love solving mysteries!
Bought this up in Provincetown on Summer Vacation.......2004-07-08
Perfect beachread. Read just or three pages in this little hard cover book, and you have a mystery to solve.Simple, logical, and sometimes with twists,it is a perfect beach book. As a hard cover book, the pages won't blow and blow.Read the mystery, and then close the book, roll over, bask in the sun, and ponder the solution. The answers are in the back of the book. Read another mystery, apply more lotion, have a lovely beverage, and ponder the solution to that story.Answers are formatted in the back of the book. Mysteries are indexed both by story and solution.With close to one hundred "Whodunits"...you'll have enough reading to keep you busy for your whole vacation.
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A Case of Classic Whodunits
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culinary excellence.......2004-03-18
Charlie Trotter, what a great chef and entrepreneur. This book is for the People who want one day to own a buisness. Reading this book gives you the aspects of running a restaurant and being the best. Having passion for this line of work, he cant stress more. Without passion for food or being sucsessful it will not work. Charlie Trotter gives great lessons in excellence, from hiring anf firing, to running a kitchen without rasing a voice
If Excellence is your Goal, there are lessons for you.......2001-09-10
This is both an interesting and boring work, due to the insights shared from Charlie Trotter's success. The boring stuff is the repitition of common-sense advice which everyone knows but few implement habitually. This is what separates the mediocre from the excellent.
Trotter maintains an atomosphere of excellence, from his hiring practices to discipline to innovation to publicity, etc.
One can certainly take much from this work to ponder about possible adaptation for one's own enterprise.
Better if "as told to" rather than "as interpreted by".......2001-04-23
As a big fan of Trotter and his innovation and creativity, I was excited to read this book. Unfortunately, it's just not very good. Mr. Clarke uses a notion or two per chapter that Trotter has applied as a successful entrepeneur, then boils it down, oversimplifies it, and creates tedious little pop quizzes of the "rate yourself" variety. It's as if he doesn't know whether he's writing a do-it-yourself workbook or a study of business. Clarke's very intrusive and heavy-handed, and this blunts the force of the good observations he does make. All in all, Clarke's interpretations of Trotter's wisdom lack the ring of authenticity of someone who's actually done what he espouses. This would be a lot better if it was actually Trotter doing the teaching.
A good lesson indeed...........2001-01-13
I happen to find this book very interesting. It gives you some insight as to how Charlie Trotter runs his restaurant in Chicago. For anyone who knows of this restaurant, you will know how successful it is and how much pull Charlie Trotter has in the restaurant business. This book won't teach you how to become a better person in life, but what it will do is teach all of us how to be more effective in the workplace. We all think we know the best way to run a business, but the truth is you can't do any of it without a great team of minds to assist you along the way.
This book was very informative. I, for one, always wanted to know some of the secrets myself about this place. The restaurant hardly ever drops the ball when it comes to providing a great dining experience.
This book would be great for managers, VP's, and directors of any company. Not just the restaurant business. It explains how to treat your workers with respect and how to also tighten the ropes when you need to get things accomplished sooner than you already are without killing the integrity of the worker.
All in all, a really good book. Buy this if you are a fan of the restaurant or would like a good idea of how the place has run over the last 12 years.
Where are the Lessons?.......2000-03-31
I found the book to be void of any new leadership "Lessons" and to be particularly skimpy on any real "Lessons from Charlie". Ok, so someone leads each guest to the restroom and checks to see that it's in order and his servers wear double-stick tape on their shoes. But other than those two specifics, there's just no Charlie Trotter flavor to the book. (And, I'd personally be totally uncomfortable having someone follow me to the ladies' room every chance I got up. Can't they straighten the room on someone else's time, not while I'm waiting to use it?)
The book talks about Trotter's passion, but fails to explain or illustrate his inspiration and execution. The book is dull, with no feeling for the fire that incents Trotter. I'd love to know how he goes about changing the menu every day. There has to be a process to his creativity, not just the outcome. But we're left with nothing.
For the first time in my life, I threw the book away. There was no one I could imagine who would be willing to waste the time I had on the book.
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