- Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books; Reprint edition (Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446609692
- ISBN-13: 978-0446609692
- Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,095,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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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.
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McBain Satisfies, As Always!
1 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
This is early McBain, from 1972, and all the boys from the 87th precinct are here in top form! (Why can't I meet a guy like Steve Carella?!) Like all of his police procedurals, it's a very entertaining and breezy read. Suspense, humor, and crackling dialogue are all served up in equal doses. The book's jacket says, "What could be easier? He had a confessed killer, clear fingerprints, and a witness. Everything was sewed-up tight. Or was it?" Bad vibes and his keen cop's instinct sends Detective Carella on a mission to prove promiscuous Sadie wasn't killed by the number one suspect, but by somebody very close to her. YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH MCBAIN! I've loved him for years -- and his books written under his real name -- Evan Hunter -- are also wonderful.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The 8-7 Scores a Perfect 1o
5 Mar 2004
Format:Paperback
I've read most of the 87th Precinct series, and while the worst ones are always at least above-average, the best ones are a rare excursion into perfection (esepcially for the crime/mystery genre, which, although I love it, is vulnerable to substandard, schlocky stuff). "Sadie" is the best of the best, McBain's most taut, surprising, and intricate little gem. Read it, if only to understand its cryptic title.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Someone Please Kill the Narrator
10 April 2008
Format:Paperback
This is the fifteen book in the series that I have read, and except for "Lady, I Did It" I've like and enjoyed McBain's books. But, this was about as dull a story that I have ever read. The people in it, especially the ponderous narration, seemed as if everyone was forced at gunpoint to be in this novel. What I mean is that even the characters didn't want to be there.
The story itself just plods along, with so much unnecessary fluff and fill (especially the side story with Kling) that you get the feeling (or I did) that McBain had a book to deliver and he was gonna get it done no matter what. The problem is that there is no life in the book, it lays there like a fish washed up on the shore gasping for breath.
Every good series, has it's ups and downs; hopefully this is as down as the series gets.
The story itself just plods along, with so much unnecessary fluff and fill (especially the side story with Kling) that you get the feeling (or I did) that McBain had a book to deliver and he was gonna get it done no matter what. The problem is that there is no life in the book, it lays there like a fish washed up on the shore gasping for breath.
Every good series, has it's ups and downs; hopefully this is as down as the series gets.
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