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The Empty Hours

The Empty Hours

by EdMcBain (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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    Paperback 1992

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Synopsis

She was young, wealthy - and dead. Strangled to death in a slum apartment. All they had to go on was her name and some cancelled cheques. As Steve Carella said, 'Those cheques are the diary of her life. We'll find the answer there.' But how was he to know that they would reveal something much stranger than murder? On Passover the rabbi bled to death. Someone had brutally stabbed him and painted a J on the synagogue wall. Everyone knew who the killer was - it had to be Finch, the Jew-hater. Or did it...? The snow was pure white except where Cotton Hawes stared down at the bright red pool of blood spreading away from the dead girl's body. Hawes was supposed to be on a skiing holiday, but he couldn't just stand by and watch the local cops make a mess of the case. He had to catch the ski-slope slayer before he killed again.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 07 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0752864114
ISBN 13: 9780752864112
Book Overview: Three 87th Precinct stories - brand new to Orion - from one of the true greats of crime fiction Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger - the first US writer to do so He always receives terrific reviews: 'The master of the police procedural returns ... McBain is a perennial cause for rejoicing' THE TIMES 'A classic piece of hardboiled Ed ... McBain is the real McCoy' GUARDIAN 'McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'Unbeatable ... the finest police procedural series ever ... Keep 'em coming, Ed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES 'As usual with McBain, the plots are complicated, the dialogue fast and funny, and the entertainment value immense' DAILY MAIL 'A tip for those involved in the ongoing row about the questionable literary merits of genre writing: read Ed McBain's new novel for evidence that crime and quality aren't mutually exclusive' DAILY MIRROR 'Zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive' LITERARY REVIEW

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.