Nocturne
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- 79,00 kr
Publisher Description
På Station 87 er der som sædvanlig travlt. Så travlt, at kriminalassistent Carella er blevet sat på to usædvanlige sager: mordet på en pensioneneret koncertpianist og hendes kat, og mordet på en ung n********r.
Den amerikanske forfatter var født under navnet Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), men besluttede sig i 1952 for at skifte navn til Evan Hunter, og det er blandt andet under dette navn, at han fik succes. Hunter skrev både under sig eget navn, men benyttede sig også flittigt af forskellige pseudonymer, hvoraf Ed McBain muligvis er det mest kendte. Hunter udgav mere end 100 romaner, og særligt krimier. Udover sine romaner skrev Hunter filmmanuskripter og er blandt andet forfatter til manuskriptet bag "The Birds" (1963), der blev instrueret af Alfred Hitchcock. Evan Hunter fik tildelt flere priser og blev nomineret til en Edgar Award hele fire gange.
Ed McBains krimiserie "Station 87" følger en række betjente på Station 87 i storbyen Isola. Oftest følges den hårdkogte betjent Steve Carella i hans hverdag, hvor kampen mod mord, narkoproblemer og diskrimination er hverdag. McBains krimiserie består af mere end 50 bøger.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
87th Precinct stalwarts Carella and Hawes, appearing in the 48th entry in this still vibrant series, catch the case of Svetlana Dyalovich Helder, an elderly Russian woman shot to death at her modest apartment. In her youth an acclaimed pianist who played the great concert halls of America and Europe, Svetlana, at the time of her death, lived on welfare, drank too much and listened to old 78 rpm recordings of her glory days. The murder motive looks like burglary until Carella and Hawes learn that Svetlana had withdrawn $125,000 from her bank hours earlier. A neighbor reports having seen a tall blond man at Svetlana's door shortly before the murder. After the shooting, a blond man delivered a package to the hotel where Svetlana's granddaughter, Priscilla, stayed. Meantime, over in the 88th, "Fat Ollie" Weeks investigates the deaths of a pimp and a drug dealer. That leads to a sexually mutilated hooker, also killed the night before, and a bookie who remembers a tall, blond bettor looking for a gun. As the cases converge, McBain serves up his usual mix of urban insights, terrible jokes, sex, violence and dialogue that crackles from every page. Followers of this 40-year-old series will be satisfied, as always, and new fans will be captured by this latest example of McBain's enduring virtuosity.
