Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V3 #924

From: David Bell ( belldj@email.uc.edu)
Date: 24 Oct 2001


I've always liked Nocturne the best which came maybe three or four books ago. 1997 I think....

BetsyaW@aol.com wrote:

> << Is or was Ed McBain a real person, or a syndicate? As the series
> continued, did the books become more interesting/less adolescent? Could
> some enthusiast here suggest a probably-more-recent title which I could
> try without being assured of groaning repeatedly and falling asleep in
> Chapter 6, right in the middle of the unconvincing sex scene?
> >>
> He's real, but that's not his name. Money, Money, Money is his newest, the
> 50th book in the 87th precinct series. My only quarrel he sets the stories in
> a fictive city he calls Isoleta which is clearly New York, and I'm never sure
> of the purpose of that.
> Betsy
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