Down By the Old Bloodstream - Alfred Hitchcock
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000BPJPL4 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 293 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alfie invites you to jump right in. Includes 14 stories. The gore is fine
ealovitt said A few good stories in an otherwise uninspiring collection. Alfred Hitchcock writes his usual tongue-in-cheek introduction to this 1971 short story collection, in which he bemoans the attempts at removing violence from TV programs, most especially premeditated murders. I suppose he needn't have worried.At any rate, this anthology contains several premeditated murders, but I thought the best stories in a rather uninspiring collection made do without any killing at all. If you enjoy the pulp fiction of mid-century America, you might find some merit in this . a sorry collection of stories This is yet another short story collection supposedly edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Well if old Alfie indeed chose these stories and plop his name on the book then, well, he was an old fool. All the stories are uniformly mediocre. I suspect they were never published elsewhere. The book publisher undoubtedly got these stories on the cheap and thought they could make a buck off the Hitchcock name. Well they didn't get a buck off me, I paid 50 cents for this book at a thrift store. Even still I feel