Jack and the Beanstalk - Softcover

Ed McBain

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ISBN 10: 1558170839 ISBN 13: 9781558170834

Publisher: Pinnacle Books, 1988

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Young Jack McKinney decided he was going to turn a bankrupt snapbean farm into a paying operation, and he hired Matthew Hope to push the land deal through. Four days later, Jack was dead--and there was no trace of the $36,000 Jack had promised to deliver for the farm. Soon Hope is drawn deeper into the murderous plot.

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Born in New York, Evan Hunter (1926–2005) wrote the screen play for Hitchcock’s The Birds in 1963. He received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and is one of three American writers to be awarded the Diamond Dagger for a lifetime of achievement by the British Crime Writers Association. Under the name Ed McBain, he authored the sprawling 87th Precinct series — the longest, most varied crime series in the world — which includes fifty-five novels about a fictional team of policemen, and thirteen novels in the Matthew Hope series featuring an up-and-coming lawyer in the Florida Gulf Coast. Known for tackling controversial content with a thoughtful eye, he is the author of over eighty novels.

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