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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent mystery puzzles!
Smith's clever mini mysteries kept me entertained for hours. I recommend this book to all amateur logicians. I'm anxious to start his Five Minute Crimebusters.
Published on June 20, 2002 by Norman Wagner
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Greatly Disappointed
The book was greatly disappointing. Rather than interesting mysteries to read, they were simple and futile exercises in solving the same logic exercise over and over. For example, 5 suspects: One is lying, the other is telling the truth, the third is maybe telling the truth, the fourth is maybe lieing, etc. This was repeated throughout most of the stories. They were...
Published on December 14, 2000 by Eric J Pollock
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Greatly Disappointed,
By Eric J Pollock (Seoul, Yongsan-Ku Korea (South)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Five-Minute Whodunits (Paperback)
The book was greatly disappointing. Rather than interesting mysteries to read, they were simple and futile exercises in solving the same logic exercise over and over. For example, 5 suspects: One is lying, the other is telling the truth, the third is maybe telling the truth, the fourth is maybe lieing, etc. This was repeated throughout most of the stories. They were simply too tiring to read. The other few stories that did not have that approach had only one person in the story, so there was no mystery as to the identity of the culprit. You can better spend your money with mysteries by Hy Conrad. Hy Conrad's books are more enjoyable to read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Worth reading ..,
By penny gray (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Five-Minute Whodunits (Paperback)
I liked this book quite a bit, although I was disappointed to find that at least 1/3 of the 'mysteries' were actually logic puzzles. All in all, though, I'd have to recommend it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent mystery puzzles!,
By Norman Wagner (Freeport, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Five-Minute Whodunits (Paperback)
Smith's clever mini mysteries kept me entertained for hours. I recommend this book to all amateur logicians. I'm anxious to start his Five Minute Crimebusters.
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Five-Minute Whodunits by Stan Smith (Paperback - June 30, 1997)
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