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

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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. hesitate. He looks like maybe he’s not having such a great day already. Getting smushed is the last thing this guy needs. When you see a bug in your home, what do you do? Do you leave it alone? Do you kill it, or ask someone else to do the dirty work for you? Or do you ever try to catch it and set it free outside? Why do you make those brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. 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.

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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.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)

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Some of the stories are weaker, mystery-wise, such as "The Man Who Shot Birds" by Mary Fitt, but the tale itself is so entertaining that that can be overlooked. I enjoyed the writing and the secrecy behind the narrating voice. A woman is chatting up a man who claims to have great skills with all animals. he seems like he is lonely and alone. I was, therefore, thrown by the ending, which felt almost unnecessary. I will not go any further into it because that twist is what drives the plot. (2 stars) 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 wish I could find more of F Tennyson Jesse's stories featuring the unique detective Solange Fontaine. She's the daughter (and professsional partner) of a scientist, but her detecting is based on her intuitive sense of evil, even in the most innocent of situations. I liked this story about a French family of modest means. The sweet, elderly parents are devoted to their adopted daughter, who is devoted to her pretty parakeet. What could possibly be wrong in this picture? 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)

Ants, as individuals, do not seem like very complicated animals to me (I’m sure E. O. Wilson would correct me), but every time I smush one I am aware I am extinguishing for all eternity one being’s Some were downright dull. As I get older I like Chesterton less and less and the Father Brown story sat like a lump in the middle of this. However it was worth buying for Clifford Witting, Tennyson Jesse, Mary Fitt, Vincent Cornier and Garnet Radcliffe. 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. Other than that quibble, I enjoyed most of the stories in the book. The usual suspects are here, including a Father Brown story. I can't make up my mind about him. Sometimes I like his stories and sometimes they bore me. Like his creator, Father Brown was a devout Christian in an increasingly secular society and he was fighting a valliant battle to show "rationalists" the error of their ways. Ham. God's bodykins, man, much better! Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in.

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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?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.