Puss in Boots, Ed McBain
Puss in Boots, Ed McBain
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Puss in Boots

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/18/2012

Synopsis

A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Carlton Markham, who’s been arrested for his filmmaker wife’s murder but says he didn’t do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham’s not giving up that easily on his innocence. And when Matthew digs deeper into the victim’s business—from heavy financial backers to sleazy egomaniacs—he finds she may not have been the perfect lady she had seemed. The one piece of evidence that could set Markham free and finger the real killer is the victim’s film reel. Only it’s gone, along with the film’s sexy star. Now Matthew needs to infiltrate the seedy side of the film industry in order to find the missing reel and solve the murder. From master storyteller Ed McBain, Puss in Boots is another Matthew Hope Mystery classic, the tale of a woman who aimed too high and the many men who fell for it all.

About Ed McBain

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by wally

just finished this one this early friday evening, 3/24/17. excellent story. 5-stars. this one is a matthew hope novel, matthew a crimnal defense attorney in calusa county, florida, a fictional county although geographically it is south of tampa...so? volusia county? apparently mcbain lived there in......more

Goodreads review by David

Matthew Hope’s first homicide defence since he decided to add criminal as well as civil law to his portfolio follows the case of a murdered film producer and the missing film being edited. I enjoy the Hope series, set in Florida.......more

Goodreads review by Lee

Gore isn't my thing, and this entry in the Matthew Hope series had plenty of it. Carlton Markey is accused of murdering his wife. He claims innocence but has no evidence to refute the testimony of several neighbors who saw him the night of her death. To complicate matter, Prudence Ann Markham was il......more

Goodreads review by Pat

Pretty good Ed McBain novel set in the world of porn filmmaking. Also reads a little like John Grisham at times. McBain has the ability to have lots of characters telling their story within the novel without it becoming too clunky or complex.......more

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