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Original Title:	The Collected Short Stories
ISBN:	0006514057 (ISBN13: 9780006514053)
Edition Language:	English

Collected Short Stories

Jeffrey Archer

Paperback | Pages: 710 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 2332 Users | 69 Reviews

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Title	:	Collected Short Stories
Author	:	Jeffrey Archer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 710 pages
Published	:	1999 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published November 3rd 1997)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery

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Some great stories. Liked Old Love (sentimental), Cheap at Half the Price (neat trick), The Perfect Murder (liked the twist), The Loophole (any day the people can get back some of their money from the government is a good one), The Steal (another good twist and a classic example of Archer's showing up the rude and unrefined), Christina Rosenthal (sad), Colonel Bullfrog (good yarn), Not For Sale (sentimental twist), A La Carte (Archer is also good at stories at people finding their niche and rising within it, e.g., his novel As The Crow Flies), and The Wine Taster (comeuppance again, although the bias is a bit annoying). Some of the others weren't so great, though (e.g., The Luncheon, which was sort of pointless, and Not the Real Thing, which seemed too unlikely even for fiction).

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I have extremely fond memories of this book as it got me round New Zealand. My boyfriend and I rented a campervan and drove around NZ for a month and unfortunately NZ radio rarely worked and we didn't have an adapter for our ipod so there wasn't a lot to pass the long journeys with. We popped into a Charity shop and found this hidden amongst the shelves. We've both read Archer's short stories before and thought it would be great to read each other the stories as we drove.They turned out to be

A re - read for the year. It was great to revisit some of the most amazing stories I read as a teenager. I recommend Old Love and Christina Rosenthal, most favorite of the lot.

This is my first Jeffrey Archer book, and if it hadn't been for a certain person, I might not have ever known of JA. Also before this, I hadn't been interested in short stories, and after reading just a few short stories from the first collection, A Quiver Full of Arrows, I was already in love with JA. At the end of his stories I find myself always at awe because it was not only written so well, but simple to comprehend when the story itself if full of twist and turns. JA really does have a



got this from the library, wanted to see what Jeffrey Archer is all about. Maybe the novels are better. These stories all have "surprise" endings, including one in which the narrator turned out to be a cat. Mostly, they are nasty, misogynistic, and often cruel. I read about half, and happily returned the book.

PLOT OR PREMISE:This book is an amazing collection of 36 shortstories from a master storyteller combining romance, history, danger, twists, international intrigue, and domestic angst..WHAT I LIKED:"A really nice mix, particularly some of the ones with twist endings. Here is an overview of each of the stories and the ratings for each..- NEVER STOP ON THE MOTORWAY: Woman driver is chased by a van down the motorway, with the context backlit by recent rapes and murders. Fantastic twist. 5.00- OLD

It combines three volumes of Archer's short stories and contains several very enjoyable pieces.Archer is better at the short story than the novel,always dreaming up some very inventive ideas.