THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL

McBain, Ed (Evan Hunter)

ISBN 10: 0446517399 / ISBN 13: 9780446517393

Published by Warner Books, New York, 1994

About this Item

the eleventh novel in McBain's mystery series featuring Florida defense attorney Matthew Hope, who gives up top billing to his friends this time while struggling to stay alive in intensive care with two bullet wounds in his chest; previous owner's name on front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 003505

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL
• Publisher: Warner Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446517399
• ISBN 13: 9780446517393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery
  • Private Detective
  • Suspense

About this title

Synopsis

After Matthew Hope slips into a coma--the result of a drive-by shooting--his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom--must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local circus--an underworld of offbeat sex, drugs, blackmail, murder, and in the center of it all, there was a little girl.

From the Back Cover

Matthew Hope has been shot - taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa's seediest neighborhood. With Matthew in a postsurgery semicoma, the men and women who know him best go to the places he went, talk to the people he talked to, and desperately try to find out who wanted Matthew Hope dead. The sexy, tough investigator called Toots Kiley, the world-weary cop named Morris Bloom, and Warren Chambers, a strong black man who gets reminded every day that Florida is still the Deep South, start to get the picture: Matthew Hope had walked into a weird and wild world. Hope had been hired to close a real estate deal for a small, successful circus. He found himself surrounded by trapeze artists, wild animal trainers, seductive dancers, and freaks who shared a society of amazing feats, kinky sex, and dark secrets. Before Hope could do his job he had to find out how a curvacious three-foot-tall woman met a violent death, and what happened to her extensive estate. Instead of an answer, Hope got a riddle. Now in a Calusa hospital, he fights for his life. His friends scramble for clues. But the riddle - and a killer - are still out there: There was a little girl who had a little girl who had a little girl...