Our Game vs The Schirmer inheritance: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Spy stories, Intelligence service, Fiction
Our Game
Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back…
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The Schirmer inheritance
George Carey, lawyer, was given the task of going through the files on the Schneider Johnson case, making sure nothing had been overlooked. He discovers something in the fales claims and dead-end leads which makes this…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Schirmer inheritance is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for Our Game.
- Our Game has the widest readership — 8176 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Our Game | The Schirmer inheritance | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (8176) | 3.7 (939) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (12) | 4.0 (2) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (64) | 4.0 (19) |
Reception
| Our Game | The Schirmer inheritance | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 8176 | 939 |
| Editions | 26 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 513 |
| Reading it now | — | 70 |
| Written reviews | — | 107 |
| Wikipedia attention | 842 | 236 |
| Pages | 328 | 212 |