Reviews for The detection collection

The average rating for The detection collection based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-20 00:00:00 David Poel A mixed bag of short stories from member of the Detection Club. Given some of the class crime authors involved, I expected this to be much better than it was; there are one or two good stories but most fall a little flat, starting off well but rounding off with a weak ending, as of the author ran out of his allotted word-count - Lindsey Davis' Going Anywhere Nice? and Clare Francis' The Holiday seeming to fit this bill.. Best by far in my opinion, is Reginald Hill's contribution, a rare outing for Dalziel without Pascoe.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-26 00:00:00 William Perry Some of the stories were really good and engaging- I liked the first two ("Part Time Job" and "Partnership Track") the best. However, I thought some of the others had very little plot, or in a couple of cases, had a decent story but the ending stunk. I did find a few authors that I will look up after reading their short stories, but overall, I would only give this book a mediocre rating, as the number of mediocre to bad stories trumped the few exceptional ones.