ALFRED

HITCHCOCK

PRESENTS

A MONTH

OF

MYSTERY

Random House (NY) ©1969

CONDITION:  GOOD hardcover BOOK, but no jacket; old price mark on front flyleaf, some shelfwear at edges and corners.  Well-bound, except for a break in the binding at pages 124 & 125; but the pages are not loose.

Here is a selection of the widest possible assortment of reading pleasure for the mystery reader. It is broken down into : A Week of Crime, A Week of Suspense, A Week of Detection, A Week of the Macabre, A Short Week of Long Ones. — The thirty-one selections include fascinating stories guaranteed to keep the reader pleasantly diverted, puzzled, or terrified, depending on which week he has chosen from.

Commentaries on line:

These and more stories give the reader a few good thrills and chills. Though to be fair, the mysticism seemed out of place for the Master of Suspense. Hitchcock himself didn't dabble into the supernatural. Outside of Rebecca or The Birds, his tales were all explainable without resorting to The Unknown. Still, the wide variety of concepts and settings give light to enjoyable quick reads.

Recommended for people who want to fill a month.

A collection of 31 short stories. Some are certainly better than others. But as a whole it was a fun read.

Wonderfully charming little tales of mystery & suspense with a grimly hilarious preface by the Editor. 

It was really scary! The man was twisted.

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