Gary,
Re your question below:
> I have a book group that has asked me which is
the
> best of the 87th Precinct
> novels. Anyone want to make a suggestion?
Whyntcha ask me this at Magna?
I have a marked preference for the early entries in this
series, and the best of the early entries (and probably the
best in the whole series) is THE HECKLER, the first in the
sub-series pitting the boys of the 87th against the master
criminal known only as The Deaf Man, and the only one of
those books, IMHO, in which the gritty realism of the police
procedural meshes really well with the concept of a Moriarty
figure.
Let me add that, while Mr. Gorman's opinions are ALWAYS
worthy of respect, HE WHO HESITATES is likely to be very
unsastisfactory to a reading group precisely because it IS so
untypical. The boys of the 87th barely make more than a cameo
appearance; for practical purposes, it's not REALLY an 87th
Precinct novel at all, but simply a novel set in the same
universe.
JIM DOHERTY
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