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Romance Hardcover - 1995

by Ed McBain

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The 46th novel in the police procedural series that made Ed McBain a household name. Detective Steve Carella and the boys of the 87th Precinct have their hads full again in this sizzling new police drama. McBain is the recipient of the most coveted award in the American mystery field--the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.

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Warner Books. Collectible - Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page.
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Details

  • Title Romance
  • Author Ed McBain
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Collectible - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Warner Books, New York
  • Date 1995-04-14
  • Bookseller's Inventory # J02B-00339
  • ISBN 9780446518048 / 0446518042
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.3 x 1.19 in (23.67 x 16.00 x 3.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Police - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94037078
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is really attacked, outside the theater. And before the detectives of the 87th can solve that crime, the same actress is stabbed again. This time for keeps. A.D.A. Nellie Brand moves in for a murder conviction, but Detective Steve Carella is sure she's got the wrong guy, and wrestles for the case with Fat Ollie Weeks, Isola's foulest cop. While Bert Kling interviews witnesses and suspects ranging from the show's producers to the author - who has written novels about cops and knows how it's done - to the lead's lovely understudy, he can't keep his mind off what's happening to him. He's falling in love. With a doctor. Who happens to be a deputy chief surgeon. Who happens to be a black woman. In the city of Isola, nothing is black and white. In the play Romance, no one is guilty or innocent. And in the gritty reality of the 87th Precinct, everyone is in love with something - even if it's only murder.

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It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is really attacked, outside the theater. And before the detectives of the 87th can solve that crime, the same actress is stabbed again. This time for keeps. A.D.A. Nellie Brand moves in for a murder conviction, but Detective Steve Carella is sure she's got the wrong guy, and wrestles for the case with Fat Ollie Weeks, Isola's foulest cop. While Bert Kling interviews witnesses and suspects ranging from the show's producers to the author - who has written novels about cops and knows how it's done - to the lead's lovely understudy, he can't keep his mind off what's happening to him. He's falling in love. With a doctor. Who happens to be a deputy chief surgeon. Who happens to be a black woman. In the city of Isola, nothing is black and white. In the play Romance, no one is guilty or innocent. And in the gritty reality of the 87th Precinct, everyone is in love with something - even if it's only murder.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/1995, Page 1355
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/1995, Page 185
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/1994, Page 76
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/13/1995, Page 63

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