Twelve Red Herrings

Twelve Red Herrings

First edition (UK)
Author Jeffrey Archer
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
July 1994
Pages 324
ISBN 0-00-224329-6

Twelve Red Herrings (or 12 Red Herrings) is a 1994 short story collection by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer. Archer challenges his readers to find "twelve red herrings", one in each story. The book reached #3 in the Canadian best-sellers (fiction) list.[1] J. K. Sweeney from Magill Book Reviews (01/01/1995) reviews the stories as "An attempt, it must be said, which is of such a nature that quite often the author succeeds in the effort."[2]

For the story "One Man's Meat..." the reader is offered the choice of four different endings: "Rare", "Burnt", "Overdone" and "À Point". Sweeney from Magill Book Reviews comments on this: "Each of the conclusions is quite plausible, although the average reader may find one far more convincing that the others--a circumstance which the author no doubt anticipated with a certain degree of relish."[2]

Contents

The book contains 12 stories.

In the preface the author notes that the stories indicated with an asterisk are "based on known incidents (some of them embellished with considerable licence)."

See also

References

  1. "Fit for a magnate". Maclean's. 107 (29): 6. July 1994.
  2. 1 2 Sweeney, J. K. (January 1995). "TWELVE RED HERRINGS Jeffrey Archer 1994 Short Stories". Magill Book Reviews.
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