Jigsaw, Ed McBain
Jigsaw, Ed McBain
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Jigsaw

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/24/2012

Synopsis

A piece of a torn picture in the hand of a dead man puts the detectives of the 87th Precinct on the trail of $750,000 missing from a six-year-old bank heist.“Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain’s grand, ongoing accomplishment.” —Entertainment Weekly“McBain has the ability to make every character believable—which few writers these days can do.” —Associated Press

About Ed McBain

Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award–nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter—including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a fiftieth anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005.Visit EdMcBain.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on July 19, 2014

When two men turn up dead in a sleazy apartment, one shot and the other stabbed, detectives Brown and Carella conclude that the man who lived in the apartment surprised a burglar and killed him, but not before the burglar was able to inflict a fatal blow on the tenant. It seems like an open-and-shut......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on September 23, 2018

I enjoyed this quick read and will dip back into the pond for more 87th Precinct in the future. I wasn't tuned into these books when published and was rather busy running around DC and Maryland with my two towheaded toddler girls at the time, teaching them how to cut the eyes off soft-shell crabs, f......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on July 22, 2017

Arthur Brown gets to take the lead in this entry in the 87th Precinct series which had a nicely complicated plot and was quick entertaining read.......more

Goodreads review by AndrewP on July 02, 2019

This book surprised me by being a bit more complicated than most of the other 87th Precinct novels. The $700,000 loot from a Savings and Loan robbery was hidden shortly after the robbery with the location only known to the gang leader. He took a photograph of the hiding spot, cut it up into 8 piece......more

Goodreads review by Tom on June 13, 2020

Insurance man come to the 87th precinct to get help on a cold case heist from 6 years earlier. The bandits were all killed but the money was never recovered and the insurance man thinks he has a lead to get it all back. The detectives are their usual skeptical but as you’d guess a case starts to mat......more

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