Sadie When She Died, Ed McBain
Sadie When She Died, Ed McBain
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Sadie When She Died

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Ed McBain

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/01/2014

Synopsis

Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: his wife’s body with a knife buried in it. Though he shamelessly cops to being happy she’s dead, his alibi is airtight and all signs point to a burglary gone bad. But even when detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling follow the clues to a junky punk and get a full confession, Carella can’t quit thinking there’s something about the case that’s as phony as a sidewalk Santa’s beard. Maybe it’s because the victim’s husband wants to pal around with the suspicious cop on a cryptic pub-crawl through the urban jungle. Or maybe it’s the dead woman’s double identity and little black book full of secret lovers. Whether she was Sarah the shrewish wife or Sadie the sex-crazy swinger, there’s more to her murder than just a bad case of “wrong place, wrong time.” And Carella won’t rest till his cuffs are on the killer.

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 James on December 05, 2014

It's the Christmas season and in sharp contrast to the joyful tidings attendant to this time of year, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are called to an apartment occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher greets them by announcing that he's just returned from a business trip. Mrs. Fle......more

Goodreads review by David on February 27, 2017

Another strong Precinct story, set just before Christmas, with Carella pursuing a case for murder and Kling having a hard time in the sub-plot......more

Goodreads review by John on December 13, 2017

I'm a fan of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series, and must have read about two-thirds of them over the decades since being introduced to them at the age of maybe 14. Some of them, of course, I read so very long ago that nowadays, when I pick them up, I have little or no memory of them beyond at most a......more

Goodreads review by DeAnna on December 20, 2017

A woman is murdered and her husband is glad, and glad to tell the police that he didn't do it, even though he discovered the body. A good read, although I think I'm just always going to find McBain plots unfocused--so many characters rotating through plots and subplots that never quite connect, more......more

Goodreads review by AndrewP on February 17, 2020

Somehow I read this book out of out of order, reading #27 first. Still, this marks the half way point for me, having now read 27 of the 54 books in the series. A murder and a quickly caught perpetrator makes it look like an open and shut case. But as always, things are not as simple as they at first......more

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