FAT OLLIE'S BOOK. - Softcover

McBain, Ed.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752842447 ISBN 13: 9780752842448

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER., 2003

Synopsis

Fat Ollie Weeks has just finished writing a novel and, while on the way to deliver it to his agent, he gets a call to report in at the 87th to investigate a murder. When he makes it back to his car, he finds that the manuscript has been lifted and suddenly, Weeks has two simultaneous cases--though one of them is significant

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Review:

The disreputable, bigoted, dirty-mouthed but oddly likable Ollie Weeks, a walk-on in Ed McBain's popular 87th Precinct series, gets a book of his own here: not just the mystery of who killed a popular mayoral candidate a few days before the election, but the one Ollie, improbably, is writing. Pity the schmuck who lifts Ollie's only copy of his manuscript from his car--not only is its author in desperate need of what he's sure will be his ticket to fame and fortune, but the befuddled miscreant somehow believes that the caper recounted in Ollie's book is a real one, and that he's in possession of a blueprint for the crime that will allow him to cash in on it. This is a fast, funny read from the master--like a valentine to his fans while they wait for his next big one. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

Ed McBain is the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award. His most recent 87th Precinct novel was Money, Money, Money. Under his own name -- Evan Hunter -- he has enjoyed a writing career that has spanned almost five decades, from his first novel, The Blackboard Jungle, in 1954, to the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, to The Moment She Was Gone, his most recent novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0752842447
• ISBN 13: 9780752842448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1