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3.7/5 Pan Macmillan Publication date July 1994 ISBN 0-00-224329-6 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 324 Originally published July 1994 Page count 324 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Suspense, Mystery Similar Works by Jeffrey Archer, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Twelve red herrings by jeffrey archer audiobook excerpt
Twelve Red Herrings (or 12 Red Herrings) is a 1994 short story collection by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer. Archer challenges his readers to find "twelve red herrings", one in each story. The book reached #3 in the Canadian best-sellers (fiction) list. J. K. Sweeney from Magill Book Reviews (01/01/1995) reviews the stories as "An attempt, it must be said, which is of such a nature that quite often the author succeeds in the effort."
Contents
For the story "One Man's Meat..." the reader is offered the choice of four different endings: "Rare", "Burnt", "Overdone" and "À Point". Sweeney from Magill Book Reviews comments on this: "Each of the conclusions is quite plausible, although the average reader may find one far more convincing that the others--a circumstance which the author no doubt anticipated with a certain degree of relish."
Contents
The book contains 12 stories.
In the preface the author notes that the stories indicated with an asterisk are "based on known incidents (some of them embellished with considerable licence)."