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''Twelve Red Herrings'' (or ''12 Red Herrings'') is a 1994 short story collection by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer. Archer challenges his readers to find "twelve red herrings", one in each story. The book reached #3 in the Canadian best-sellers (fiction) list. J. K. Sweeney from ''Magill Book Reviews'' (01/01/1995) reviews the stories as "An attempt, it must be said, which is of such a nature that quite often the author succeeds in the effort." For the story "One Man's Meat..." the reader is offered the choice of four different endings: "Rare", "Burnt", "Overdone" and "À Point". Sweeney from ''Magill Book Reviews'' comments on this: "Each of the conclusions is quite plausible, although the average reader may find one far more convincing that the others--a circumstance which the author no doubt anticipated with a certain degree of relish."〔 ==Contents== The book contains 12 stories. *"Trial and Error" *"Cheap at Half The Price" * *"Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm" * *"Do Not Pass Go" * *"Chunnel Vision" * *"Shoeshine Boy" * *"You'll Never Live to Regret It" * *"Never Stop on the Motorway" * *"Not for Sale" *"Timeo Danaos" * *"An Eye for an Eye" * *"One Man's Meat..." In the preface the author notes that the stories indicated with an asterisk are "based on known incidents (some of them embellished with considerable licence)." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twelve Red Herrings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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