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Author:
Stephen King
By Dorchester Publishing Co.
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $5.99
Our Price: $9.99
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780843955842
ISBN: 0843955848
Label: Dorchester Publishing Co.
Manufacturer: Dorchester Publishing Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co.
Studio: Dorchester Publishing Co. |
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Product Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues.But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...
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Colorado Kid book on CD, 2010-08-15
I enjoyed the book. I ordered it because on the TV credits, it mentioned that the new SyFy program "Haven" was based on this story. Even though there was not a close connection between the book and the show, I enjoyed the mystery. The item was in very good condition and I was able to play it as soon as it arrived.
A short Noir Stephen King novel, 2010-08-16
This short Stephen King mystery is a who dun it, why dun it, even when dun it-- to whom. Putting the pieces together is the fun, but their are no absolute answers. You might be able to create your own Murder Mysrtery Party at home based on this.
This novel is the basis for the tv show HAVEN, but the events of the book take place 20 or 25 years before the tv series.
The Colorado Kid, 2010-08-09
It was not up to the usual Steven King novels It was kind of slow and hard to stay interested.
Not the Thing I wanted - Not the Love Affair I hoped for, 2010-08-11
This mystery could have been so much more had King wanted it to be. Instead of going out and creating the thing that I thought I migt be getting into, however, King created a book that made me wonder and keep wondering even after i was done. I would have been fine with the mysterious way that the story ended had I felt like it had finished well but, as with some King books, it had a lot of flaws.
First, I felt like there were a lot of flaws in the waythis beast was delivered. The main charcters that told me the tale did not make me want to keep reading - they seemed like they had been created solely to do something but not to ever breath. Since I am a character person and love the way characters enhance a story, I was saddened by the way many of these people seemed to appear without so much as a reason. It made the thing seem mechanical and, when it seems this way, the reading slows to a crawl.
The plot was one that I wanted to get into but, as i progressed, i felt lost in places. i THINK this happened because the problem i named earlier interferred with me taking in the story as a whole, and it hurt my attention span. I could see what King was creating - liking it was easy when I started out and sometimes that leaked out and the story got going again. But, all in all, it was not what I had thought I would get.
Check this out and see if you like it by sampling pieces provided here and there. Also, some reviewers have given several things that answer all kinds of questions INCLUDING when editions of this will be released. I have to commend them for that and ask that you see my review as my opinion, noting I am no literary icon and my opinion is that of a reader reading.
I would include more but I fear spoilers, knowing what they do to me. Besdes, you are the real voice that matters in the end. Check out what you see - hopefully you can find more here than I did.
"Colorado Kid"- the Anti-Mystery ?, 2010-08-11
If ever a book could be called an "Anti-Mystery", it's "The Colorado Kid". At the end of the mystery, the detectives are still as baffled as when they started. There are enough unsolved mysteries in real life, we don't need fictional ones. I thought part of the fun of mystery novels is that the detective solves them in the end, "The Colorado Kid" doesn't do that plus there was no "mutant of the Week" as in the " Haven" TV series that is supposedly based on this book.
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