{"product_id":"the-collected-short-stories-jeffrey-archers-previously-published-stories-compiled-for-the-first-time-in-one-definitive-volume","title":"The Collected Short Stories: Jeffrey Archer's Previously Published Stories  Compiled for the First Time in One Definitive Volume","description":"\u003cp\u003eMillions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archers shortstories. Now  for the first time  all three collections are gathered together inone handsome volume. One of the most acclaimed authors writing today  JeffreyArcher is a dazzling storyteller. A master of character and suspense  he has agift for the unexpected plot twist that has catapulted all three of his shortstory collections--A Quiver Full of Arrows  A Twist in the Tales  and Twelve Red Herrings--onto international bestseller lists and earned himwidespread critical praise. The stories from A Quiver Full of Arrowstake is on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance  of cutthroat businessand kindly strangers  of lives lived in the realms of power. Fortunes are madeand squandered  honor betrayed and redeemed  love lost and rediscovered. AsPublishers Weekly said about this collection  \"Somerset Maugham neverpenned anything so swift or urbanely witty as this.\" The spellbinding storiesfrom A Twist in the Tale leads us on a journey of thwarted ambition undying passion  and unanswered honor--to placers weve never visited and peoplewell never forget. Readers will meet an extraordinary cast of diversecharacters: a philandering husband who thinks hes committed a perfect murder  aself-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higherthan the secrets of a Swiss bank. The New York Times raved about ATwist in the Tale  \"Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with thereader in twelve original stories that end  more often than not  with ourcollective whiskers twitching in surprise.\" From his inventive thirdcollection  Twelve Red Herrings  comes a dozen delectable morsels inwhich human beings are given opportunities to seize  crucial problems to solve  ordangers to avoid. And buried in each is a red herring Archer challenged hisreaders to uncover. In these stories things are never quite what they seem: animprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive  afemale 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 escapedIraqi on Saddam Husseins death list lands unexpectedly in his homeland. TheDaily News Express hailed Twelve Red Herrings as\"Outstanding...White-knuckled suspense and witty denouncements.\" Thesethirty-six tales are Jeffrey Archer at the peak of his form. Wonderfullyentertaining  The Collected Short Stories will astonish  delight  andenthrall Archers many fans  both old and new.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986213204021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0060192240","price":21.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060192242.jpg?v=1770892527","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-short-stories-jeffrey-archers-previously-published-stories-compiled-for-the-first-time-in-one-definitive-volume","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}