Book review: Death Sentences

THE physical book may be under threat from the digital revolution and its e-books, according to perceived wisdom, but book collectors and bibliophiles are in far more immediate danger of being wiped out.

At least, that’s the recurring theme in Death Sentences, a collection of short stories edited by Otto Penzler and written by 16 crime and mystery authors who are, according to Ian Rankin’s introduction, ‘masters of their craft’.