I purchased and began to read _The Vintage Book of Classic Crime_, edited by
Michael Dibdin.  The table of contents reads like a Mystery Hall of Fame,
from Poe to PD James to Chandler, from Checkhov to Symons to Singer to Kafka.
It sounded great until I began to read the book and discovered that there
wasn't a complete story in the book--nothing but extracts from larger works.
I am very disappointed as I had not expected this.  If I had known it was a
collection of extracts, I wouldn't have purchased it.
I can't find anything that spells this out, although I suspect the publisher
could point to the back cover where the blurb mentions "the stories, essays,
and novel excerpts in this volume..."  I saw that but thought it meant the
excerpts were of the novels, which wasn't a problem.
Oh well, chalk it up to experience.  I will just view anything published by
Vintage with some suspicion from now on.
FINISHED: Robert Silverberg, BEYOND THE SAFE ZONE, short story coll.
CR: Michael Dibden, "Serious Business" in  THE VINTAGE BOOK OF CLASSIC
        CRIME, ed. by Michael Dibdin, 1/432
CR: Marcel Proust, SWANN'S WAY, 138/462.
CR: Stephanie Barron, JANE & THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT SCARGRAVE MANOR, 162/318
Email: fredr@gci-net.com
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