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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "e_lynskey"
<e_lynskey@...> wrote:
>
> Maybe this question has been asked before. Does
anyone
have reading
> favorites of Ed McBain's 87th precinct series? I've
read
Blood
> Relatives, Jigsaw (in process), and one from some
time
back I can't
> recall the title of.
The pleasure of the 87th precinct series is the characters,
their interactions, and their attitudes.
In the beginning when they were 50/60,000 word novels, they
were puzzles like the traditional mysteries and usually had a
page that showed a photo or copy of an important clue. As
publishers got bigger and wanted more words for each book,
they became more complicated.
The last 87th Precinct I read was "The Fumorous
Bandersnatch." The big puzzle was pretty simple, the police
work was a la Law and Order, first half hour, and to me there
was only one suprise, but it was a dilly.
Favorites? Not sure, but I do remember and opening line that
went something like, "Blood when it spills is brown and not
red."
That was my first, and I think it is possible that it was the
first 87th Precinct as well.
Anybody have that exact quote, and the book it was from? I no
longer have my old 87ths.
Jack
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