Sadie When She Died (Crime Masterworks) [Paperback]

SADIE WHEN SHE DIED was reviewed in DAILY EXPRESS on 15th February 03 - "Thewelcome return of an old favourite" WWW.TANGLED-WEB.CO.UK featured a review on their site from 21st March 03 including a summary of the plot. Several radio stations including BBC Radio SOLENT and BBC Radio SHROPSHIRE are using copies of SADIE WHEN SHE DIED with two other titles from the Crime Masterworks Series for listener competitions.

The victim had a knife in her chest, and the husband didn't even try to disguise the fact that he was glad. From the very beginning, Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct is sure that someone was hired to make the killing look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets start to spill out of the closet and Carella and Bert Kling find themselves entering the city's sexual underground to discover the truth.

Ed McBain (1926--) 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 is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is the only American writer to be awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.