{"id":607,"date":"2003-04-20T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-607.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"lawrence-block-the-collected-mystery-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/04\/20\/lawrence-block-the-collected-mystery-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Block &#8211; <i>The Collected Mystery Stories<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with most collections, this one has some excellent stories in it, and some throwaway rubbish.  They range from traditional mysteries, through folksy con jobs, to character sketches without even a hint of crime, with even a few tales of psychological horror tossed in along the way.  The bulk of the stories are one-offs, and that&#8217;s where most of the variability occurs.  It&#8217;s the ones about Block&#8217;s series characters (Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matt Scudder, Keller) that are the really worthwhile nuggets, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with most collections, this one has some excellent stories in it, and some throwaway rubbish. They range from traditional mysteries, through folksy con jobs, to character sketches without even a hint of crime, with even a few tales of psychological horror tossed in along the way. The bulk of the stories are one-offs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}