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Alfred Hitchcock Presents A Baker's Dozen of Suspense Stories

de Alfred Hitchcock (Editor)

Altres autors: Samuel Blas (Col·laborador), Ray Bradbury (Col·laborador), Georges Carousso (Col·laborador), Agatha Christie (Col·laborador), Mary Deasy (Col·laborador)8 més, Graham Greene (Col·laborador), F. Tennyson Jesse (Col·laborador), D.H. Lawrence (Col·laborador), Robert Lewis (Col·laborador), Louis Pollock (Col·laborador), Eugene Manlove Rhodes (Col·laborador), Ellis St. Joseph (Col·laborador), John Steinbeck (Col·laborador)

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A skillful, literate ("New York Times Book Review") biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment that may have led to his suicide.With a novelist s sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor and elegantly explains his work and its implications."… (més)
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Five stories provide young detectives with clues to solving bizarre mysteries involving talking skeletons, evaporating men and cantankerous millionaires.
  isabelrocio25 | Oct 23, 2022 |
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Title: A Baker's Dozen
Series: ----------
Author: Alfred Hitchcock (Editor)
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 170
Words: 67K

Synopsis:

From the Inside Cover

NEVER SAY DIE.

For those who had the courage to come back for more, that generous master of suspense has provided a baker’s dozen of the bizarre, a little extra in the way of horror and intrigue. Here is a supreme collection of skin-prickling suspense, cunningly chosen to startle and terrify, by.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Table of Contents:

F. TENNYSON JESSE - The Mask

AGATHA CHRISTIE - Accident

GRAHAM GREENE - A Day Saved

ROBERT LEWIS - Roman Holiday

SAMUEL BLAS - Revenge

JOHN STEINBECK - The Snake

MARY DEASY - Long Shadow on the Lawn

RAY BRADBURY - The Night

D. H. LAWRENCE - The Rocking-Horse Winner

GEORGES CAROUSSO - The Warden

ELLIS ST. JOSEPH - Leviathan

LOUIS POLLOCK - Breakdown

EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES - The Fool’s Heart

My Thoughts:

This was a decent read and I don't have anything to complain about but it wasn't as fantastic as some of the other books that Hitchcock has edited. With authors like Christie, Steinbeck and Bradbury I have to admit I was expecting something a notch above what I got.

In terms of food, it was the difference between the pictures of a hamburger that you see at fastfood places (like McDonald's) and the reality of what you get. Nothing wrong with the burger and you're going to eat it and enjoy it. But no one can say that it looks anything like the picture of perfection you see up on the menu or in the ads.

I am content with my time spent with this book but have nothing to rave or rant about. Makes writing this review pretty easy though!

Oh, technically this book is called “A Baker's Dozen of Suspense Stories” but that is a ridiculous mouthful.

★★★☆☆ ( )
  BookstoogeLT | Dec 3, 2021 |
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Hitchcock, AlfredEditorautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Blas, SamuelCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bradbury, RayCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Carousso, GeorgesCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Christie, AgathaCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Deasy, MaryCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Greene, GrahamCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Jesse, F. TennysonCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Lawrence, D.H.Col·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Lewis, RobertCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Pollock, LouisCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Rhodes, Eugene ManloveCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
St. Joseph, EllisCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Steinbeck, JohnCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
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A skillful, literate ("New York Times Book Review") biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment that may have led to his suicide.With a novelist s sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor and elegantly explains his work and its implications."

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