Fülszöveg
VA fine pace a terrific climax/
Glasgow Herald r
VA virtuoso • • • McBain never puts a foot wrong/
Guardian
Matthew Hope only takes the case on because it seems
so routine: attractive Jill Lawton wants to divorce her
husband Jack who has disappeared into thin air,
somewhere in the cold, cold north.
It's all a bit more complicated than that. First, Jack's
dead body is found, but turns out not to be Jack at all.
Then a second corpse turns up, a young woman known
variously as Melanie and Holly. Then Jack Lawton's
absurd plan to rob the Calusa museum gets underway.
And Matthew Hope has become embroiled in another
dangerous case, the kind that he swore he would never,
ever allow himself to be dragged into again
With a little help from a detective called Steve Carella
in the frigid north, Ed McBain's brilliant lawyer once
again puts his own life on the line, in an unputdownable
story of lust and lethality.
Many of Ed McBain's dazzling mysteries are available as...
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Fülszöveg
VA fine pace a terrific climax/
Glasgow Herald r
VA virtuoso • • • McBain never puts a foot wrong/
Guardian
Matthew Hope only takes the case on because it seems
so routine: attractive Jill Lawton wants to divorce her
husband Jack who has disappeared into thin air,
somewhere in the cold, cold north.
It's all a bit more complicated than that. First, Jack's
dead body is found, but turns out not to be Jack at all.
Then a second corpse turns up, a young woman known
variously as Melanie and Holly. Then Jack Lawton's
absurd plan to rob the Calusa museum gets underway.
And Matthew Hope has become embroiled in another
dangerous case, the kind that he swore he would never,
ever allow himself to be dragged into again
With a little help from a detective called Steve Carella
in the frigid north, Ed McBain's brilliant lawyer once
again puts his own life on the line, in an unputdownable
story of lust and lethality.
Many of Ed McBain's dazzling mysteries are available as New
English Library paperbacks. Nocturne is the latest 87th Precinct
story and Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear also features Matthew
Hope. Coronet Books publishes Privileged Conversation, the
* newest novel written under his real name, Evan Hunter.
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