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Cargando... Kiss (Penguin Crime Fiction Series) (1992 original; edición 1992)por Ed McBain (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was thinking this might only be a 3 star read, but the end comes together absolutely beautifully and resolved the misgivings I had. There are 2 plots going on here. One a personal about Carella that allows McBain to flex his courtroom drama muscles. The other is a really noirish tale that involves the bulls investigating attempts on the life of a wealthy woman. As a result you kind of get 3 books in one - a bit of Grisham, a bit of James M Cain and McBain’s normal humour and painstaking procedural detail holding it all together. Creaking stuff. A woman comes to the 87th Precinct to report two attempts on her life, including recognizing the attempted killer as her husband's former limo driver. When he shows up shot and strung up, Fat Ollie Weeks pushes the case off to the 87th. The husband then hires a private eye to protect his wife as the 87th Street detectives start to investigate. Meanwhile, the trial for the killer of Steve Carella's father occurs simultaneously. The wife then sleeps with the private eye to get even with her philandering husband before he can do what he was initially hired to do. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las series87th Precinct (44) Pertenece a las series editorialesIl giallo [Mondadori] (2342) Aparece abreviada enDistinciones
A successful businessman hires an out-of-town bodyguard to protect his wife. Several near-fatal accidents send her into the arms of police detective Steve Caralla and his partner Meyer. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This was a good page turner, with lots of courtroom procedure and quite a bit of detective work on the active murder case. The title comes from some of the song lyrics printed within. Or maybe, it's about the kiss of death. Still and all, a good read! ( )