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Title: The Sleuth of Baghdad by Charles B. Child ISBN: 1-885941-75-7 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Moderately Entertaining Stories in an Ugly Package
Comment: My first instinct on picking up this book was to wonder why a publisher would go to so much trouble to collect and resurrect these stories only to package them so unattractively. The utterly amateurish cover and inside typography detracts a great deal from the enjoyment of the book, which collects 15 of the roughly 34 Inspector Chafik stories published in Colliers, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and John Bull between 1947 and 1969. Set in post-WWII Iraq, the stories feature a cunning Baghdad police inspector. Drawing on his wartime experience in Iraq, Child created a kind of stereotypical genius inspector who's smarter than everyone else and has those abstract leaps of intuition that are the mark of the brilliant fictional detective. Fortunately, he's not infallible, and in several stories must be rescued by his faithful assistant or his adopted son. In each, there is an initial murder which Chafik tackles, although sometimes he metes out his own form of justice rather than proceeding strictly according to law. The stories need to be read slowly over time, otherwise they tend to blur into each other as the author's style and construction is unvaried throughout. As a portrait of Baghdad, it's occasionally insightful. For example, in the stories Chafik deals with Armenians, Greeks, Sunnis, Shi'ites, city folks, villagers, rich, and poor. In that sense it does a good job of showing the diversity that exists in may Arab cities, but otherwise it's a fairly static and romanticized picture of Baghdad just before rapid modernization hits. Altogether, a moderately diverting collection of old-fashioned stories in an unusual setting.
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT COLLECTION
Comment: Crippen landru continue their LOST CLASSICS series with a great adition, the Child stories. They are good puzzles and will provide a great read in a caracther you probably wont know but will want another collection after reading this one. BUY IT!
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Title: The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf le Roux by Peter Godfrey ISBN: 1885941692 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing by Helen McCloy, B.A. Pike ISBN: 1932009078 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth by Edward D. Hoch ISBN: 1885941919 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: 07 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Karmesin: The World's Greatest Criminal -- Or Most Outrageous Liar by Gerald Kersh, Paul Duncan ISBN: 1932009035 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles by Stuart Palmer ISBN: 1885941854 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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