- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby; New edition edition (4 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749004525
- ISBN-13: 978-0749004521
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,765,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Annie Boone lay face down on a liquor store floor, riddled with bullets. Detective Roger Haviland lay face up in a grocery store's window, a shard of glass piercing his jugular. A homicide in the 87th Precinct wasn't front-page news. But two murders made headlines. Both added up to big trouble.
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Before The Bill there was Z Cars, and before Z Cars there was Dixon of Dock Green. Across the Atlantic, before The Wire there was the still-missed Hill Street Blues, and before Hill Street Blues there was Ed McBain's 87th Precinct, print rather than pixels but the genealogy was the same.
If it is still something of a shock to discover that Killer's Choice, the fifth in the 87th Precinct series, was first published more than fifty years ago, there are clues. Not least when a young woman is innocently described as "Dancing, and laughing, and well ... gay." There are four-letter words, too, but none that will disturb the eyebrow of today's reader.
So there is almost a sense of period charm as Carella and Kling and Hawes set about solving the mysterious murder of a young woman whose multiple personality is unveiled chapter by chapter but never explained. A crucial witness in the investigation is a five-year-old girl who cannot tell the time but recounts from memory a telephone conversation that requires nearly five pages to report.
Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) is never dull but his prolific output under this and half-a-dozen pseudonyms led inevitably to occasional slapdash plotting. The 87th Precinct has better tales in its archive than this.
If it is still something of a shock to discover that Killer's Choice, the fifth in the 87th Precinct series, was first published more than fifty years ago, there are clues. Not least when a young woman is innocently described as "Dancing, and laughing, and well ... gay." There are four-letter words, too, but none that will disturb the eyebrow of today's reader.
So there is almost a sense of period charm as Carella and Kling and Hawes set about solving the mysterious murder of a young woman whose multiple personality is unveiled chapter by chapter but never explained. A crucial witness in the investigation is a five-year-old girl who cannot tell the time but recounts from memory a telephone conversation that requires nearly five pages to report.
Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) is never dull but his prolific output under this and half-a-dozen pseudonyms led inevitably to occasional slapdash plotting. The 87th Precinct has better tales in its archive than this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Thing is about Ed McBain, he never misses the mark. Every one of his 87th Precinct novels are winners, being short, snappy, extremely readable recitations of noir-esque crime at its coolest and least predicable. The stories move so fast you end up reading the whole thing in one sitting, and with the length of some, such as "Killer's Choice", that is no bad thing. This book in particular features his usual cast, with Hawes and Carella leading the way. Very smart and funny prose will keep the pages turning, as will the slick double narrative, and despite genre masters like Michael Connelly and Robert Crais stealing all the limelight these days, fans of hard boiled crime fiction need to go back and discover not just this novel, but the whole damn series. Every one, a superb read.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is definitely true McBain vintage ... and excellent and gripping story which keeps you guessing until the end. The ending is a little abrupt but the rest of the book more than makes up for it.
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This is a perfectly acceptable 87th Precinct novel with all the usual suspects. It's a bit of a fun read, quick and undemanding - perfect if you're in the terminal waiting for... Read more
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