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Originally Posted by crich70
I haven't read them yet but there are some collections of hardboiled stories at Amazon under the title of "Beat to a pulp." They aren't novels of course but there are a number of authors represented in each one and some of them have other works that might be longer. So you can get a look at their writing styles in the short works before dipping into a longer tale.
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We tried some shorts a couple of times on the last roadtrip. Didn't work out at all. I like the idea, but the vast majority of the stories were just plain awful. I had checked out the famous collections of mystery series put together by a famous editor...name starts with a "P" I think. His last name. Anyway, there was one story in there out of several sets we liked. Not much room for character development and by and large some of the most depressing garbage we'd ever listened to.
I think we both decided we'd rather listen to longer works.
I do read short stories, but generally only AFTER I like the author. Collections are just too off the wall for me. I tend to like collections by one author that stick to the same characters like Frank Tuttle's Wistril Compleat. Nancy Fulda has a collection that has various stories and characters and I liked about half of those--but I like her caper, adventure stuff, not that darker stories.