This collection, published in 1933, contains two stories that I first read as part of a college curriculum, the title story Death In the Woods and Brother Death. These I enjoyed rereading: actually for the third time. As for the others they are simple and straightforward, but I found the writing to be somewhat choppy: very terse sentences; brief paragraphs. In most the narrator, or some other character, is a writer: some successful, others not. At any rate they are interesting.

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