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The Con Man

The Con Man

by EdMcBain (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $8.81
Synopsis

A trickster taking money from an old woman for his own private charity. A cheater fleecing the businessmen of their thousands with the oldest gimmick in town. A lady-killer after the ladies' dollars with just a little bit of love...The guys of the 87th Precinct thought they knew every trick in the book - so why are there bodies still washing up on the shore? The Con Man: handsome, charming - and deadly.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 04 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 0752857940
ISBN 13: 9780752857947
Book Overview: An 87th Precinct novel from one of the true greats of crime fiction Published alongside FAT OLLIE'S BOOK - new in paperback - and his latest hardback, THE FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger - the first US writer to do so He always receives terrific reviews: 'A masterpiece of crime writing ... I think Ed McBain is brilliant' DAILY MIRROR 'Ed McBain is, by far, the best at what he does. Case closed' PEOPLE 'Zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive ... Shrewd, funny, tough and so topical that it practically sprints from the page' LITERARY REVIEW 'McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'McBain virtually created the American police procedural novel ... [he] weaves all the threads of his story together with admirable expertise' SUNDAY TIMES 'Finely tuned prose and wittily ironic characterisation ... It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES

Author Bio
Ed McBain (1926-2005) was born Salvatore Lambino in New York. He changed his name to Evan Hunter and under that name is known as the author of The Blackboard Jungle and as the writer of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The 87th Precinct series numbers over fifty novels. McBain was a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and was one of three American writers to be awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.