{"product_id":"9781250102102","title":"Collected Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eMillions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's shortstories. Now, for the first time, all three collections are gathered together inone handsome volume. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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—\u003ci\u003eA Quiver Full of Arrows, A Twist in the Tales,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwelve Red Herrings\u003c\/i\u003e—onto international bestseller lists and earned himwidespread critical praise. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The stories from \u003ci\u003eA Quiver Full of Arrows\u003c\/i\u003etake 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. As\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e said about this collection, \"Somerset Maugham neverpenned anything so swift or urbanely witty as this.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The spellbinding storiesfrom \u003ci\u003eA Twist in the Tale\u003c\/i\u003e leads us on a journey of thwarted ambition,undying passion, and unanswered honor—to placers we've never visited and peoplewe'll never forget. Readers will meet an extraordinary cast of diversecharacters: a philandering husband who thinks he's committed a perfect murder, aself-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higherthan the secrets of a Swiss bank. The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e raved about \u003ci\u003eATwist in the Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From his inventive thirdcollection, \u003ci\u003eTwelve Red Herrings,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Hussein's death list lands unexpectedly in his homeland. The\u003ci\u003eDaily News Express\u003c\/i\u003e hailed \u003ci\u003eTwelve Red Herrings\u003c\/i\u003e as\"Outstanding...White-knuckled suspense and witty denouncements.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thesethirty-six tales are Jeffrey Archer at the peak of his form. Wonderfullyentertaining, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e will astonish, delight, andenthrall Archer's many fans, both old and new.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047400947952,"sku":"9781250102102","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250102102_p0.jpg?v=1763702920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250102102","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}