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Fiddlers Audio Book
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Fiddlers
Author:
Ed McBain
Reader: Charles Stransky
A serial killer in a hurry is murdering randomly, except that all his victims are over 50. Steve Carella and the cops at the 87th Precinct must learn what else – or who else – they had in common before another body is found. This mystery takes us to the outer edge of the city and examines the dreams we chase in the darkening hours. "This one will have [you] waking in the middle of the night."—Booklist
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Publish Date: 08/29/2005
ISBN: 9781565119895
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Synopsis:
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Struggling to discover a link between the apparently random victims of a profile-resistant serial killer who has murdered five times in two weeks, detective Steve Carella and his colleagues at the 87th Precinct race against time to prevent another attack. Simultaneous.
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Author Bio:
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While most readers know him as Ed McBain, the renowned author of the 87th Precinct series, Evan Hunter was born Salvatore Albert Lombino and remained that throughout his boyhood and early adulthood in East Harlem and the North Bronx. Lombino spent two years in the U. S. Navy before attending Hunter College in New York, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1950. After leaving college, he held a series of odd jobs that included lobster salesman, reader at a literary agency, and high school teacher. He began his career in publishing in the early '50s under a variety of pseudonyms, none of which stuck until he wrote his first novel, FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT (1952), under the Evan Hunter byline. At the urgings of his publisher, who claimed that Salvatore Lombino was too hard to pronounce and would hurt book sales, he had his name legally changed to Evan Hunter. Ed McBain was born shortly after Hunter produced the bestseller THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE in 1954, which was based on his teaching experiences. An editor at Pocket Books thought Hunter might do well as a crime writer and designated him the successor to the company's popular mystery writer, Erle Stanley Gardner. Before Hunter penned the final pages of COP HATER, the first of the 87th Precinct novels, editors suggested he create a crime-writer pseudonym to prevent damaging his career as a literary author. Appropriately enough, the setting for Hunter's most famous series of books is as fictional as his mystery writing alter ego. The 87th Precinct series takes place in Isola, a thinly veiled version of New York, the city he knew so well. The series became one of the first in the mystery genre to feature a cast of characters as the focus, rather than a singular protagonist, and to include themes such as violence, drug dealing, corruption, and the search for justice in a chaotic, brutal world. His success as a police procedural revolutionary garnered him the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986, as well as the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain's Cartier Diamond Dagger in 1998 (he was the first American to be so honored). In total, Hunter wrote over 100 books under his various pen names, and about 75 screenplays, including an adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier short story that became Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film, THE BIRDS. Evan Hunter died on July 6, 2005, of larynx cancer.
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