Fiddlers (Murder Room) - Softcover

McBain, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752878026 ISBN 13: 9780752878027

Publisher: Orion, 2006

Synopsis

Six victims. Same gun. No link. The final 87th Precinct novel from the master...

It started with the blind violinist - shot twice through the head at point-blank range in the alley outside his dingy restaurant. But it's only when the omelette lady gets shot with the same gun in the same way twenty-four hours later that the 87th Precinct really starts to sit up and take notice.

But Steve Carella and the boys at the Precinct always seem to be one step behind the killer, and are unable to prevent the death toll rising. The trouble is, while the gun is the same, none of the victims seem to be related in any way. And why is the killer heard to introduce himself as 'Chuck' before pumping two bullets into their bodies?

FIDDLERS is a brilliantly twisting puzzle of a book where nothing is as it seems and the pace never lets up - Ed McBain at his very best.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR "FIDDLERS"

"McBain's final novel boasts all of the virtues we have come to expect from him: ingenious plotting, deft dialogue, engaging cynicism and, above all, credible characterization . . . [McBain] departs still at the top of his game and, like every great entertainer, leaving us both satisfied and hungry for more."--"The""San Diego Union-Tribune"

"A fine swan song: a great plot and realistic hard-boiled-detective dialogue."--"Playboy"
PRAISE FOR"FIDDLERS"

"McBain's final novel boasts all of the virtues we have come to expect from him: ingenious plotting, deft dialogue, engaging cynicism and, above all, credible characterization . . . [McBain] departs still at the top of his game and, like every great entertainer, leaving us both satisfied and hungry for more."--"The""San Diego Union-Tribune"

"A fine swan song: a great plot and realistic hard-boiled-detective dialogue."--"Playboy"
PRAISE FOR "FIDDLERS"
"McBain's final novel boasts all of the virtues we have come to expect from him: ingenious plotting, deft dialogue, engaging cynicism and, above all, credible characterization . . . [McBain] departs still at the top of his game and, like every great entertainer, leaving us both satisfied and hungry for more."--"The" "San Diego Union-Tribune"
"A fine swan song: a great plot and realistic hard-boiled-detective dialogue."--"Playboy"
PRAISE FOR FIDDLERS
"McBain's final novel boasts all of the virtues we have come to expect from him: ingenious plotting, deft dialogue, engaging cynicism and, above all, credible characterization . . . [McBain] departs still at the top of his game and, like every great entertainer, leaving us both satisfied and hungry for more."--The San Diego Union-Tribune
"A fine swan song: a great plot and realistic hard-boiled-detective dialogue."--Playboy
PRAISE FOR THE 87TH PRECINCT SERIES
"Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no reruns, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment."--Entertainment Weekly
"As impressive a body of work as exists in [McBain's] chosen genre, the police procedural."--The Washington Post

Book Description:

Six victims. Same gun. No link. The final 87th Precinct novel from the master...

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0752878026
• ISBN 13: 9780752878027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320