Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible volume...

THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES
A Quiver Full of Arrows takes readers on a journey of encounters that befall an assortment of kindly strangers, wary old friends, and long-lost loves.

Sly reflections on human nature are at the center of A Twist in the Tale in which blindly adventurous game-players compete for stakes higher than they dreamed.

Expect the unexpected and you'll still be surprised in Twelve Red Herrings, a dozen tales of betrayal, love, murder and revenge capped with a startling twist.

Thirty-six stories in all, each poised to astonish and inspire, revealing "master entertainer" (Time) Jeffrey Archer at his artfully entertaining best.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312937709 (December, 2005), 627 p., $8.99.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories (UK 1999)

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The thirty-six stories, drawn from the three volumes - A Quiver Full of Arrows, A Tivist in the Tale and Twelve Red Herrings - show Jeffrey Archer at the peak of his form. His mastery of characterisation and suspense, combined with his great gift for the unexpected plot twist, provides a feast of entertainment for readers old and new.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0006514057 (November, 1999), 705 p., £6.99.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories (USA 1998)

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"Jeffrey Archer ranks in the top ten storytellers in the world - Los Angeles Times
Millions of readers around the would have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Now, for the first time, all three collectons are gathered together in one handsome volume.

One of the most acclaimed authors writing today, Jeffrey Archer is a dazzling storyteller. A master of character and suspense, he has a gift for the unexpected plot twist that has catapulted all three of his short story collections -- A Quiver Full of Arrows, Twist in the Tale, and Twelve Red Herrings -- onto international bestseller lists and earned him widespread critical praise.

The stories from A Quiver Full of Arrows take us on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power. Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, love lost and rediscovered. As Publishers Weekly said about this collection, "Somerset Maugham never penned anything so swift or urbanely witty as this."

The spellbinding stories from A Twist in the Tale lead us on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor -- to places we've never visited and people we'll never forget. Readers will meet an extraordinary cast of diverse characters: a philandering husband who thinks he's committed a perfect murder, a self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash, a finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. The New York Times raved about A Twist in the Tale, "Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with the reader in twelve original stories that end, more often than not, with our collective whiskers twitching in surprise."

From his inventive third collection, Twelve Red Herrings, come a dozen delectable morsels in which human beings are given opportunities to seize, crucial problems to solve, or dangers to avoid. And buried in each is a red herring Archer challenges his readers to uncover. In these stories things are never quite what they seem: an imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive, a female driver is tailed relentlessly by a menacing leather-jacketed figure in a pursuing vehicle; a young artist gets the biggest break of her career an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list lands unexpectedly in his homeland. The Daily Express hailed Twelve Red Herrings as "Outstanding... White-knuckle suspense and witty denouements."

These thirty-six tales are jeffrey Archer at the peak of his form. Wonderfully entertaining, The Collected Short Stories will astonish, delight, and enthrall Archer's many fans, both old and new.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0060192240 (October, 1998), 598 p., $26.00.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
The complete short stories of "the greatest storyteller of our age (Mail on Sunday) are collected together in one volume for the first time.
Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. His first collection, A Quiver Full of Arrows, was acclaimed by The Times as 'stylish, witty and constantly entertaining. Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories', while Publishers Weekly wrote 'Somerset Maugham never penned anything so swift or urbanely witty as this'.

Of his second collection, A Twist in the Tale, the New York Times said: 'Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with the reader in twelve original stories that end, more often than not, with our collective whiskers twitching in surprise', and The Times concluded that it was 'certain to delight his many fans'.

His third, Twelve Red Herrings, was described by the Daily Express as 'outstanding white-knuckle suspense and witty dénouements', and by the Daily Mail as 'an exemplary collection of short stories'.

These thirty-six stories show Jeffrey Archer at the peak of his form. His mastery of characterisation and suspense, combined with a gift for the unexpected plot twist, demonstrate why he is Britain's most successful author, and will provide a feast of entertainment for readers old and new.

Jeffrey Archer: The Collected Short Stories. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0002256177 (November, 1997), 596 p., £19.99.