TWELVE RED HERRINGS.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[True UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn originally published 5 years earlier,by the same publisher,1994.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,black background with colour pictorial artwork,by Duncan Gutteridge,illustrated dw/dj,with gilt and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges very lightly toned but still bright and clean,fore-edges less toned,so brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,3-323pp [paginated] includes 12 short stories; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,individual title separator page each with a b/w vignette illustration,b/w vignette illustrated 1st page of 2pp blanks and a further 2pp unillustrated blanks at the rear.
Jeffrey Archer has been acclaimed as 'probably the greatest storyteller of our age' (Mail on Sunday) and 'a stroyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas' (Washington Post).Of his stories the Sunday Express wrote: 'Jeffrey Archer brings to the short story all the sophisticated skills that have been the foundation of his success as a novelist.'
This new collection surpasses either of its predecessors,and will enhance Jeffrey Archer's reputation further.
In each of the stories,men and women are put under pressure - how do they react when they have an opportunity to seize,a crucial problem to solve,a danger to avoid? Archer plunges his readers twelve times into impeccably paced plots that will arrest them in the first paragraph and then keep them turning the pages as only he knows how.And for the first time in a Jeffrey Archer collection,we are offered in the final story a choice of endings - a device intriguing in itself and indicating the variety of directions in which a great storyteller can lead you down the wrong path.
'Twelve Red Herrings' is full of characteristically Archerian twists.But additionally,there is buried in each story a diversion of a kind - let us call it simply a red herring - which he challenges his readers to uncover.Will you be the first to spot all twelve?
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