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Summary: A GREAT BOOK IN A SERIES OF GREAT BOOKS!!!!!!
Review: Ed McBain is an underrated writer and a grandmaster of the police procedural genre. Two murders are investigated and near the end of the book the trail of both lead to the same spot. If you have never experienced an 87th precinct novel you will devour this one and feel good knowing McBain has written about 30 others.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Ed McBain is an underrated writer and a grandmaster of the police procedural genre. Two murders are investigated and near the end of the book the trail of both lead to the same spot. If you have never experienced an 87th precinct novel you will devour this one and feel good knowing McBain has written about 30 others.
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Summary: its ok. nothing to write home about
Review: Hey Ed McBain is a good author for what he does. I have read over a dozen of the 87th precinct books and have enjoyed every one of them. But when I start writing a review of a book I like to think of how it stacks up against other authors work. Not only that, but I like to think about how this book rates against another book in the same authors over all body of work. So while this is an elegant and simple book in its own right, it is not a literary achievement. In fact I would go so far as to relate this series of books against well-produced TV shows.
This work has a lot in common with Hill Street Blues. Every episode is about like the last one, three stories interwoven in a tight no-nonsense style. All three stories unfold in an engaging though very expected manner. Because McBain is just churning this work out, I can't give it five stars. Very little sweat seems to go into his novels. He comes up with an interesting premise, works out a beginning and end, and then relies upon his underused gifts as an author to hold it all together.
You will enjoy this book, or Ed McBain in general. I recommend him as a very light read. His work holds together and is more gripping than Grisham, Baldacci, most Stephen King's, and others of this ilk. Try Lawrence Block, Hammett, Jim Thompson, Dick Francis, Tony Hillerman, or Michael Connelly for a better read.
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Summary: Not my favorite
Review: However, there are so many of the 87th precinct books, I wasn't worried about not enjoying this one as much. I suppose it was the ending bummed me out. It was like...huh? I was kinda let down. It was good though and Ed McBain's references to THE BIRDS and other works of his (that some readers may not be aware that he wrote) cracked me up. The book does age itself with many popular references but that's ok. Sometimes, due to the fact that the series takes place over such a LONG SPAN of time, it's kinda nice to catch up.
I enjoyed the infusion of Ollie Weeks...though I thoroughly dislike that man! I did enjoy the way he was allowed to solve the case involving Marie--though I would have rather had my guys from the 87th do it! (smile)All in all I enjoyed the book as much as Romance--another book that was just 'okay'.
I did enjoy Carella speaking the Italian, however. Nice touch.
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Summary: Hooked at once.
Review: I have only recently "discovered" Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" novels, and have been reading them in random order. Like all the others, "Nocturne" was a rapid paced page-turner.The two simultaneous plots are filled with characters with jaunty attitudes on both sides of the law---hookers, pushers. cops, wackos, pimps. The two cases crisscross and dovetail into the same place. The ride to that place is filled with suspense with lotsa twists and turns. Along the way, each cleared suspect leads to another and another until all the pieces meld into the solved puzzle. It is police procedural at its best. I was hooked in no time and could not put "Nocturne" down.
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK IN A SERIES OF GREAT BOOKS!!!!!!
Review: I have read about fifteen 87th precint novels. There all great. Ed mcbain is probably the most underated novelist today. He should really get more credit. Kepp craking them out ed!!!!we love em.
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Summary: An incredible piece of work.
Review: I read this a few weeks after it came out-it was my first McBain book, and it got me hooked on the rest. Carella, Hawes, Kling, Meyer, Brown, and all the rest are now favorites of mine. Ed McBain draws such vivid charcterizations of very different people-cops, hookers, rich brats, pushers, and even one crazy wack-a-loon. I guarantee if you read this novel, you'll be a McBain fan for life.
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Summary: the master strikes again
Review: Mcbain gets better with every book,if thats possible.I enjoyed Nocture mostly for its fast pace,great suspense and of course those lovable cops.I have read every Mcbain I have been able to get my hands on and have yet to be disappointed!
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Summary: Romance continued or ... not?
Review: Nocturne was one of the 87th Precinct novels I looked forward to most because I was hoping it will continue the stories started in Romance. I devour every Ed McBain/Evan Hunter book and I still have to find one that I did not love. Nocturne is still great, but not what I expected. Maybe that is why it left me a bit disappointed and betrayed. Nevertheless, it is another stellar addition to my library and I would not give it up for the world. Go, 87th Precinct, go!
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Summary: What is all the hype about???
Review: The characters never developed. There was a lot of drama, but I couldn't get into it. He talked about characters that you had no background on and knew nothing about. I continued reading hoping it would get better, but it never did.
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