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Mr. Murder Ltd.
by Dean Koontz
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Putnam Adult (1993-10-27)
ISBN: 0399138994
EAN: 9780399138997
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover
Edition: Limited
SKU: 23783
Condition: New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! Knopf, 1993. THE UNABRIDGED ORIGINAL 1ST EDITION. HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET and pages are BRAND NEW! Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking, AIR MAIL.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Mystery writer Marty Stillwater finds his life and family threatened by a psychotic killer professing to be the real Marty Stillwater, who embarks on a campaign to eliminate Marty and claim his family. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Alt.
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Amazon.com Review
Martin Stillwater is a novelist with a wife and children he adores -- and an imagination he can't control. One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into Martin's house and accuses him of stealing his family, his name, and his life. Martin has no choice but to take his family and flee, even as he questions his own sanity. But wherever they go, the stranger is right behind them.
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Customer Reviews
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Didn't Enjoy That Much
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-10-11
Martin Stillwater is a mystery novelist with a wife who is a psychologist and two daughters. There is somebody else out there who is a killer . . . who could that be? They want to take over Marty's life and identity . . . They want what Marty has . . . Could that be Marty himself or somebody else? I will not tell you the answers, but I could not wait until I found out for myself.
Anyway, the storyline was a pretty good idea. However, I didn't like the writing style. A lot of unnecessary detail and rambling on made this book tiring.
I won't say more about this book, because I don't want to give it away. But, however, I wouldn't recommend it. Even if you like the author. I like a different book by this author, but this book wasn't as good.
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Fine Read, Great Entertainment
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-09-10
Mr. Murder is a raise the hair on the back of your head type of book with page turning abilities that keep you reading until the end. Don't start this book at 10 PM; you'll be up all night.
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I know it's a cliche, but I couldn't put it down.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-17
Before I read this book, I hardly ever read. I only did it once a year for book reports or when I had to read. But I picked up this one, and within hours I had to continue it. I didn't put it down until I was finished.
I went from reading one book a year to reading 9-10 a semester. Almost all Dean's books. He is the only author who has genuinely gotten me interested in reading.
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Typical Koontz
Rating (2)
Date: 2008-04-26
Another book by Koontz that has once again given reason to why I dislike most of his writing. Once and awhile, he pulls out a winner, but this, sadly, is not it.
He takes a seemingly interesting premise, that of a dopple-ganger terrorizing a family, and kills it. The characters are flat, all too perfect, and lack any developement. Like in many of his books, Koontz pulls out the genetic, government-created killing-machine as the answer to the villain of the book.
It worked in 'The Watchers', but not here. It seems the man has to do something like this in a lot of his work just so he can pull out a rant about how humans shouldn't 'play God' and about how screwed up humanity is.
Several, and in my opinion better, Koontz books include the Odd Thomas and Frankenstein series, 'Life Expectancy', 'Intensity', and, of course, 'The Watchers'. But this is definately not a book I will read again.
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Only Koontz Novel I've Put Down
Rating (2)
Date: 2007-12-29
I like Koontz as an author, and I've read his other works. My favorites were Odd Thomas and The Face. If you've read other Koontz novels, the story in Mr. Murder will be a distilling of the 'standard' Koontz archetype. It could be said the book is a self-parody of Koontz, but it is clearly intended as a serious work.
A typical cornier-than-the-Brady-Bunch American family are stalked by the typical Koontz psycho-killer who's a sexual predator. For Koontz, the pacing is slow (50-75 pages could be cut easily), and the prose limp. The main character being a horror novelist uncomfortably reminded me of Stephen King's "Misery." Overall, it felt like I was reading about caricatures (gutsy horror novelist protagonist {biographical?}, bombshell wife, too-smart kids) and not characters.
I found 'Mr. Murder' narrow and too similar in plot and events with other Koontz novels. Predictable. I recommend you read a different Koontz novel instead, as this was his worst effort.
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