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by: Susan Wittig Albert, Dorothy Cannell, Paula Woods Jan Burke, Parnell Hart, Tim Myers Susan Dunlap, Monica Ferris & Denise Williams, Judith Kelman Victoria Houston, Sujata Massey Margaret Maron, Gillian Roberts Sharan Newman  List Price: $21.95 Price: $6.00 You Save: $15.95 (73%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0872083527455 EAN: 9780425202067 Edition: anthology ISBN: 0425202062 Label: Berkley Hardcover Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: April 05, 2005 Publisher: Berkley Hardcover Studio: Berkley Hardcover Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Handicrafts are fast becoming a favorite American pasttime. Another, of course, is a good mystery. Combine the two and you have this delightfully different anthology on the art and craft of murder, in which the likes of knitting needles, handblown glass, wood files, and adhesives prove to be implements of a nastier sort of handiwork. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Good ArrangementI'm not big on short mystery stories, mainly because the plot seems to be either way too thin to offer much intrigue, or way too complicated to be packed into a few thousand words. I was pleasantly surprised with Murder Most Crafty. Most of the stories were meaty enough to offer some level of speculation regarding "whodunit," while not too complicated to follow. I found some old favorites, as well as some new authors to check out - and the craft projects were an added plus. Rating: - A Mixed Bag of Suspense and Crafts"Murder Most Crafty" offers the reader 15 short stories which combine murder/suspense with a "craft" theme. Each short story is followed by a simple introductory project for the craft featured in the story. Crafts run the gamut from basket-making and fly-tying, to making paper by hand. As in any collection of stories, the quality of the stories varies widely. My favorites in the collection were "How to Make a Killing Online", by Victoria Houston, "The Deepest Blue" by Sujita Massey, and "The ... Read More Rating:  - Too much crafts, not enough craftThis is supposed to be a short-story murder-mystery anthology where all the stories have a "crafts" tie-in. Unfortunately, it serves as an excellent example of the things I find wrong with much of the current "hobby mysteries" craze. There are 14 stories in the collection, all by authors with at least one professionally-published murder mystery to their name. Out of that 14, four aren't murder mysteries at all; they're descriptions of how the killer got away with it. Another is about ... Read More Rating:  - superb anthologyThough technological advances have made mass production not only much easier but customized so the phenomena of craft shops and shows around the country might seem like an anachronism but remain very popular. This fifteen short story collection anthology adds murders as the extra ingredient in the artistic crafts. The tales are top rate with each hooking the audience (and not just because the star is making a rug) as the reader seeks the pattern to the homicide. Fan favorites include China Bayles, ... Read More 
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