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The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime, 013-I)
Stephen King's bestselling unsolved mystery, THE COLORADO KID -- inspiration for the TV series HAVEN -- returns to bookstores for the first time in 10 years in an all-new illustrated edition. On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified. And that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself...
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This book is something else. Such a change to his horror novels! But in the best way. The story of The Colorado Kid is a fantastic read. It's part of the Hard Case Crime books, in which various authors write books which are called Hard Case Crimes.
First off the cover of the book is gorgeous, very pulp fiction. The illustrations in the book are fabulous and go along with the story.
The story itself is so great. Stephanie is a college intern working at a newspaper in Maine. She works with two older men called Dave and Vince who she is very friendly with. The three go to lunch and are joined by a man who wants to find some unsolved mysteries to writw about. All the same mysteries keep getting mentioned the ones that have been back and forth over the years. Later back at the newspaper office Stephanie who the men call "Steffi" for short, asks them if there are any unsolved mysteries that they could have told the guy about. The men looked at eachother and unravelled the story about The Colorado Man.
I like all the little details about the unsolved mystery of "The Colorado Man" and how he came to be. The back and forth between Dave and Vince as they tell Steffi the story is such a great read, it's really good how it was done. It really felt like I was there being told the story to.
Fantastic read, I would highly recommend you read it.
First off the cover of the book is gorgeous, very pulp fiction. The illustrations in the book are fabulous and go along with the story.
The story itself is so great. Stephanie is a college intern working at a newspaper in Maine. She works with two older men called Dave and Vince who she is very friendly with. The three go to lunch and are joined by a man who wants to find some unsolved mysteries to writw about. All the same mysteries keep getting mentioned the ones that have been back and forth over the years. Later back at the newspaper office Stephanie who the men call "Steffi" for short, asks them if there are any unsolved mysteries that they could have told the guy about. The men looked at eachother and unravelled the story about The Colorado Man.
I like all the little details about the unsolved mystery of "The Colorado Man" and how he came to be. The back and forth between Dave and Vince as they tell Steffi the story is such a great read, it's really good how it was done. It really felt like I was there being told the story to.
Fantastic read, I would highly recommend you read it.
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