Handle With Care: Frightening Stories

Kahn, Joan

ISBN 10: 0688046630 ISBN 13: 9780688046637

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1985

Synopsis

A collection of fourteen mystery stories by such well-known authors as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, M.R. James, Isak Dinesen, and others

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From Publishers Weekly:

Kahn's name is all a shudder fan needs to see on a book. The editor has introduced innumerable masters of mystery to readers of all ages and her unerring judgment is evident in this collection. Barbara Williamson's elegance disarms the reader of "The Toy Killer," epithet for young Bobby whose highborn parents Eva and Robert LaSalle, are nearly desperate. Every toy Bobby swears to cherish is found mutilated. The grieving child doesn't remember destroying his treasures and the solution to the puzzle comes like a blow to the heart. Never-fail Agatha Christie is represented by the unearthly "The Dressmaker's Doll," so troubling that its owners are tempted to burn it as a witch. There are 14 remarkable frisson makers in the book, each by an expert at turning the screw that extra, shocking bit and abundantly fulfilling Kahn's claim: "the authors are a very skillful, if very terrifying, lot."
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6 Up It's not for nothing that editor Joan Kahn recently won the prestigious Ellery Queen Award presented by the Mystery Writers of America for "outstanding contributions to the mystery field." Her talents are once again manifest in this excellent collection of what she modestly calls "potentially really frightening stories." This potential is amply filled in such page-turners as Agatha Christie's "The Dressmaker's Doll," Rog Phillip's "The Yellow Pill," and Michael Gilbert's haunting "The Happy Brotherhood." Even such old, often-anthologized warhorses as Jerome K. Jerome's "The Dancing Partner" and M. R. James' "Lost Hearts" still demonstrate a powerful kick. Altogether there are 14 stories which are about evenly divided between mystery/detection and the supernatural. Together they demonstrate that Kahn continues to contribute! Michael Cart, Beverly Hills Public Lib .
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0688046630
• ISBN 13: 9780688046637
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209