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Author:
Stephen King
By Hard Case Crime
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $5.99
Our Price: $0.49
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780843955842
ISBN: 0843955848
Label: Hard Case Crime
Manufacturer: Hard Case Crime
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Studio: Hard Case Crime |
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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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King abdicates his throne, 2010-02-21
Two old Maine newspapermen regale a young intern with the story of the only real mystery ever to present itself on their peaceful little island.
Stephen King's entry in the Hard Case series of modern noir thrillers is neither a noir nor a thriller. Instead, it is a cozy little puzzle with no thrills and no sense of danger. The real mystery is that it was ever published. Of course, even that is not a real mystery. A writer of King's stature is popular enough to get virtually anything published, as he has demonstrated on occasion. The real question is: why would he allow this to be published?
I do not think King is a lazy writer or one who does not care about his craft. I have certainly not read the majority of his work, but what I have read is almost always compelling and sometimes brilliant. I have seen some god-awful work from him, but, prior to reading this novel, I always found it among his short fiction. I can only conjecture that these types of old Yankee characters are so close to his heart that he deluded himself into believing that he had produced some quality work here and no one around him was willing to tell him differently.
A Story about Not Solving Mysteries, 2009-11-19
Picking this up, I thought it would be about an old, unsolved mystery that is finally solved. Spoiler - nope. It never gets solved. The story itself is based on the characters and how they live and dwell on old, unsolved cases, about how they can never just let them go. As a character study, it is interesting. As a story, a bore. I was frustrated by the end, felt like I had wasted a few hours of my life and for what? An unsolved case to remain unsolved? I see what King was getting at, I really do, but it still failed for me because at the end of the day I want answers and closure, thats why I read. Realistically, sure, there are unsolved cases, but we read to get that certain closure we cannot get in daily life, an escape with an ending. Will this story stick with me? Absolutely, but in a frustrating way. Bleh.
Trading on His Name, 2009-08-14
Stephen King is in the position where if he bundled up his old junior high notebooks and sent them to his agent, publishers would bid on them.
The is the only explanation for THE COLORADO KID.
The plot is, "What if there was a murder with mysterious clues that made no sense at all? The end." Gee, a mystery story with no solution! That probably isn't tried more than a hundred times a year by unpublished authors, to be met with form letter rejection every time (wouldn't Form Letter Rejects be a great name for a band?).
Written so quickly that King places a Starbucks in 1980 Denver, and since publishers have been too embarassed to edit Mr. King for well over a decade, it stayed in the book.
so boring, 2009-12-31
I enjoy Stephen King, especially on audio-book. This, though, was so boring that I quit half way through. I think that Stephen King was more interested in giving us a taste of Maine than he was in telling a good story. Don't waste your time like I did.
Come on you're a King, not a kid, 2010-01-02
I'm a long time Stephen King lover, but this little story there's rarely anything to love. The characters are very one dimentional. The muder if you can call it that is decribed with great detail which everyone should exspect of King. And that parts interesting, but little else. The solving process is so repetive as if written for a child.
The Cover to this book looks so good, like who is this raven haired beauty, she looks like she could cause some trouble but no!! She just solves a murder for a small paper that no one really cares about and is not that interesting.
It's a short read that should take less than three hours, if your a true King fan your going to read it regaurdless of what I say, this is more for those people that have never read King because his books are too big, and they might see this and go I've always wanted to read a Stephen King, well don't pick this up get something earlier please. This is not King or Bachman by any means.
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