A short story that appears in Eugene Thwing’s “The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories”

I gotta say that I didn’t have a lot of hope for this short story but I’ve read it anyways. 

The plot here revolves around a quirky take on a simple object which of course is as the title say Hard Boiled Egg. Which really made this short story very ridiculous for me which is one of the reasons for the low rating from my part.

The author attempts to give us some humor in this short story but in my opinion the humor felt very forced which only made me cringe instead of laugh. 

There were a lot of moments during me reading this short story I felt that the story was often tedious, with a lot of drawn-out scenarios and a predictable plot.

The characters in this short story are very bad and boring. Because are very one-dimensional and at the same time the characters are lacking depth and relatability. Which really doesn’t add to me liking the short story more. It does the opposite of that actually.

There were a lot of times where the short story drags for far too long and focuses on some jokes which would have worked at the time when the short story was published and not in 2020s.

I Give This Book 1 / 5