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A homicide in the 87th Precinct isn't exactly front page news. But two murders make the headlines, and add up to trouble.
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A homicide in the 87th Precinct wasn't exactly front-page news. But two murders made headlines. Both added up to big trouble. Pretty redhead Annie Boone lay facedown on a liquor store floor, surrounded by broken bottles and riddled with bullets. The boys of the 87th didn't have a suspect without an irontight alibi - or a reason for someone to shoot Annie dead. Detective Roger Havilland lay faceup in a grocery store's front window, a shard of glass piercing his jugular. A crazy bag lady was Detective Steve Carella's best witness. But a mistake by Carella's new partner Cotton Hawes could put them both in the line of fire - where a wrong move could get a good cop killed.
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KILLER'S CHOICE IS A KILLER BOOK!!
5. Februar 2002
Format:Taschenbuch
I have really liked all the 87th Precinct books I have read. This one is really two stories in one. Meyer Meyer, yes, that is his name, Bert Kling, Steve Carella and newcomer Cotton Hawes are after who ever killed a young lady at a liquor store and also who ever killed a cop. They are two different people and the work takes two different paths. McBain writes so it holds your attention. You feel like you are part of the investigation. The book is short and reads quickly. It is hard to put down.
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Average Whodunit Below Average For McBain
16. Mai 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
Inside a liquor store, a girl is shot to death with a Colt .25 automatic. The detectives of the 87th Precinct are faced with two mysteries: Who was the killer and who, really, was the victim?
Add to that a separate case involving a slain 87th Precinct detective and a new guy on the beat named Cotton Hawes who wants to prove himself, and you have the recipe for a top-notch Ed McBain mystery. Pity the cook brought this to boil a bit fast.
Published in 1958, just five books into his signature series of police procedurals, McBain (or alter ego Evan Hunter) was still easing into things, figuring out what the mythical city of Isola and the detectives of the 87th were all about. As usual, Steve Carella is the main detective here, but Meyer Meyer and Bert Kling (introduced as a uniform cop in "The Mugger" and described at one point as young-looking as Elvis Presley - golly, this is an older McBain!) put in some quality time as well.
There's also Hawes, a series regular for the next five decades who debuts here, a transfer from a more genteel Isola precinct who doesn't understand that harder rules apply, i.e. don't bother knocking at a suspect's door. "Politeness is something you have to be careful about," is how Meyer puts it to his wife later.
The central mystery develops quickly and well, as the murdered woman is described in different ways by the people who knew her. Her ex-husband says she outgrew him, while her own mother seems to think otherwise. One boyfriend recalls a good-time girl who knew her way around a pool cue, another describes her as meek and mild. Only the liquor store owner seems to have no opinion of his dead employee, at least at first.
This "many faces of Eve" angle promises more than it delivers, especially as it has less bearing on the mystery's resolution than you expect. McBain was still sorting out the 87th Precinct and the demands of writing mysteries that worked both as whodunits and "whydunits," the latter a term coined by McBain critics as his mysteries deepened in complexity and reader involvement.
Series fans will enjoy this for the introduction of Hawes and the chance to see a younger, more innocent version of the 87th Precinct, before McBain's dark and gritty imagination really took off. But those wanting early McBain stories that hold together as mysteries and as stories will more enjoy checking out his classic debut "Cop Hater" and even better "Mugger."
Add to that a separate case involving a slain 87th Precinct detective and a new guy on the beat named Cotton Hawes who wants to prove himself, and you have the recipe for a top-notch Ed McBain mystery. Pity the cook brought this to boil a bit fast.
Published in 1958, just five books into his signature series of police procedurals, McBain (or alter ego Evan Hunter) was still easing into things, figuring out what the mythical city of Isola and the detectives of the 87th were all about. As usual, Steve Carella is the main detective here, but Meyer Meyer and Bert Kling (introduced as a uniform cop in "The Mugger" and described at one point as young-looking as Elvis Presley - golly, this is an older McBain!) put in some quality time as well.
There's also Hawes, a series regular for the next five decades who debuts here, a transfer from a more genteel Isola precinct who doesn't understand that harder rules apply, i.e. don't bother knocking at a suspect's door. "Politeness is something you have to be careful about," is how Meyer puts it to his wife later.
The central mystery develops quickly and well, as the murdered woman is described in different ways by the people who knew her. Her ex-husband says she outgrew him, while her own mother seems to think otherwise. One boyfriend recalls a good-time girl who knew her way around a pool cue, another describes her as meek and mild. Only the liquor store owner seems to have no opinion of his dead employee, at least at first.
This "many faces of Eve" angle promises more than it delivers, especially as it has less bearing on the mystery's resolution than you expect. McBain was still sorting out the 87th Precinct and the demands of writing mysteries that worked both as whodunits and "whydunits," the latter a term coined by McBain critics as his mysteries deepened in complexity and reader involvement.
Series fans will enjoy this for the introduction of Hawes and the chance to see a younger, more innocent version of the 87th Precinct, before McBain's dark and gritty imagination really took off. But those wanting early McBain stories that hold together as mysteries and as stories will more enjoy checking out his classic debut "Cop Hater" and even better "Mugger."
2 von 2 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Killer's Choice
26. September 2001
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This annal in the history of the 87 police detectives will keep you rivited from page one thru the end. Its smart and well done, and you really care about the characters. Cotton Hawes comes to life in this book and grows with us through out the years in succeeding stories. Like all his books, this is a quick read and roller coaster ride.
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