Murder in Three Acts vs Red Dragon: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: 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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Red Dragon
“WILL GRAHAM SAT Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea.”
Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Red Dragon highest: Red Dragon 4.1 · Murder in Three Acts 3.8.
- Murder in Three Acts is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Red Dragon.
- Red Dragon has the widest readership — 383128 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Murder in Three Acts | Red Dragon | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (51967) | 4.1 (383128) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (578) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (1077) |
Reception
| Murder in Three Acts | Red Dragon | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 51967 | 383128 |
| Editions | 103 | 60 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 26655 | 240914 |
| Reading it now | 2102 | 8787 |
| Written reviews | 4317 | 10538 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1056 | 28249 |
| Pages | 224 | 415 |