karenchase's review against another edition
4.0
This is a pretty wide-ranging graphic sampler of crime and mystery fiction, spanning almost the entire history of literary creation. Everything from ancient Greek tragedy to the Bible to Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe are represented, in a variety of graphic styles. Each piece has a nice introduction, to both the original work and the graphic (and sometimes textual) adaptation. There are a whole bunch of these volumes, and I'll probably continue to delve in, but in some ways they are like short story collections, with some pieces only a couple of pages long, some longer, and others really like annotated paintings, with only the barest interpretation of the original work. It's an interesting approach, though I do tend to favour long-form literature, so I'm not sure how much I got out of it. I did share a couple of snips with others though.
revslick's review
3.0
The artists are given free reign to create a section of great crime and mystery and their renditions and are a 5/5 though many were so short it left me wanting for more 2/5. Probably the top aim was to give the reader a hunger for more, which it did. As I read each vignette, I reminisced the stories that I had read and added to my list of new worlds to explore.
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