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The Big Book of Reel Murders

Stories That Inspired Great Crime Films (Big Book Series)

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The Big Book of Reel Murders

By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Christina Delaine, Gildart Jackson
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Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood is made of.

Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book Series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that became some of the greatest films of the silver screen. Among these are Robert Louis Stevenson's horrifying tale that was later turned into the iconic movie The Body Snatcher, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff; and "Cyclists' Raid", the short story that formed the basis for the legendary Brando film The Wild One.

Otto Penzler delivers the director's cut on these classic short stories and the films they gave rise to. So grab your Sno-Caps and a jumbo box of popcorn and curl up with these cinematic tales from the likes of Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Dashiell Hammett, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

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This collection is great value. The stories range in quality, from exceptional to so-so. The biggest issue is the narration. Fortunately, the vast majority are narrated by the male US actor, who they have assigned stories from the USA to. The male English narrator can only sort-of do US accents, and so the choice to assign him some stories from the USA is a bit of an odd one. The really unfortunate piece of casting is the female US actor. She truly can't do any British accents - they all sound quasi-Australian. Why they've assigned her multiple British-led stories is beyond me. It's a shame that she reads one of the best stories on terms of content (Don't Look Now), because the accidentally comedic accents are a bit distracting. But the collection is big enough that a few duds are ok!

Great value, narration and story quality a mixed bag

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