Garden of Deadly Delights (Paperback)

~ Cynthia Manson (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

What's fun about short story collections is that if you don't like one story, you know it will end soon. The bad thing is that some stories end too quickly. The latter is the case with most of the stories Cynthia Manson has gathered in this quirky anthology of murder stories involving. . . gardens. As the reader worms his or her way through these stories, all sorts of . . . bodies . . . and things turn up in the lushest of gardens. This collection will give any serious gardener pause before they till their soil for the year's harvest. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Description

Nineteen tales of mystery and suspense include Agatha Christie's story of a poisoned matriarch, Ruth Rendell's spin on a flesh-eating plant, and Edward D. Hoch's puzzler about a gypsy detective.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Signet (April 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451187725
• ISBN-13: 978-0451187727
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,191,045 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An OK mix of stories, October 8, 2002

By A Customer

Here's a list of the authors: Agatha Christie, Henry Sleasar, Carol Cail, Donald Olsen, G.K. Chesterton, William Bunce, Frances Usher, Ruth Rendell, Edward D. Hoch, Sherita Saffer Campbell, Eudora Welty, Frances & Richard Lockridge, Lord Dunsany, K.D. Wentworth, Dan Crawford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dorothy B. Davis, Wyc Toole and Lawrence Treat. The copyright on this book is 1996. The one story I did not like was the one by N. Hawthorne. I read a lot of anthologies so there were 2 stories here that I read somewhere else, the Christie & Slesar ones. All the rest were new to me and interesting in the way the theme of the garden was used. I always thought gardens were supposed to be theraputic, but in these stories there is always a menace/threat hovering in the air. If you enjoy mystery short stories, try this one.