Murder in Three Acts vs Presumed Innocent: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Detective and mystery fiction, Murder, Mystery, Fiction
Murder in Three Acts
Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of…
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Presumed Innocent
The novel that launched Turow's career as one of America's pre-eminent thriller writers tells the story of Rusty Sabicch, chief deputy prosecutor in a large Midwestern city. With three weeks to go in his boss'…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Murder in Three Acts is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Presumed Innocent.
- Murder in Three Acts has the widest readership — 51967 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Murder in Three Acts | Presumed Innocent | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (51967) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 3.8 (88) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (455) |
Reception
| Murder in Three Acts | Presumed Innocent | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 51967 | 455 |
| Editions | 103 | 46 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 26655 | — |
| Reading it now | 2102 | — |
| Written reviews | 4317 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 1056 | 3946 |
| Pages | 224 | 431 |