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Bezig met laden... Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (1971)door Ed McBain
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A fairly weak effort. A series of unconnected cases, being worked on and solved by the 87th Street Precinct bulls. The main case is the shooting of Parker, whom nobody liked much anyway. ( ) Dated, but good beach read or if you like police procedural stories. First published way back but, Ed Mcbain (Evan Hunter) was a master and student of the everyday doings of the police. This is a very fast and light read. Just a day in the life. Cases are solved quickly. Men are men and the women are glad of it. ;-) In the days of phone booths instead of cell phones. Newspapers instead of google. Holds up well. One scene has a detective checking the coin slot to see if his dime came back. I had forgotten about doing that. :-) Looking for a deep read? This ain't it. Looking for a good quick bit of old time Adam Twelve type stories or Dragnet? Enjoy. This book tells the story of one action-packed night shift and one even more action-packed day shift at the 87th Precinct: An actress/dancer is murdered in the alley behind a theatre. A cop is shot during a robbery at a convenience store. A wealthy family is convinced that ghosts are robbing them. A marine has been mugged after a woman lured him out of a bar. It’s a “slice-of-life” installment in the series, with lots of little stories that get wrapped up fairly quickly. I always say reading this series is like watching an episode of Barney Miller, and the dialogue especially lives up to that comparison. However, sometimes in the 87th Precinct, the seediness comes through more than it might on a similar TV show. Attitudes toward women in particular are not particularly progressive in this book, which led me to colour this an “almost liked it, but not quite”. I do, however, think it amusing that the cop on the cover of my edition (the New American Library in Canada edition) resembles Robert Sean Leonard; that *is* somewhat how I picture Carella. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Bureau 87 (25) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Il giallo [Mondadori] (1222) Is opgenomen in
Murders, muggings, and assaults...just a routine night and day in the 87th Precinct until one of their own is shot, sending every available detective on the hunt to bring down the gunman. "McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet...even those we thought we already knew." --New York Times Book Review "Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment." --Entertainment Weekly Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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