Snow White and Rose Red, Ed McBain
Snow White and Rose Red, Ed McBain
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Snow White and Rose Red

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2012

Synopsis

Sarah Whittaker is a green-eyed beauty with a love for Danny Kaye and white knights. Lawyer Matthew Hope can see all this clearly, despite the fact that whenever they meet the two are under constant surveillance by the mental institution staff. You see, Sarah’s crazy…or is she? Sarah pleads with Matthew to take her case, claiming that her mother wrongfully had Sarah committed in order to seize her inheritance money. And while the mother and doctors in question seem shady, almost cloying in their belief that Sarah is a paranoid schizophrenic, Matthew can’t tell day from night, or Rose Red from Snow White. Meanwhile, the corpse of a woman about Sarah’s age washes ashore in a town nearby. Is there a connection? Is Sarah Whittaker really pure as snow? Is she the Virgin Queen she says she is? It’s up to Matthew to find out. In Ed McBain’s Snow White and Rose Red, Matthew Hope plunges into the noir, twisted world of the most complicated of mysteries—the human mind.

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 February 28, 2013

Ed McBain is probably best known among crime fiction fans for his 87th Precinct series, but over a twenty-year stretch from 1978 to 1998, he also wrote a series featuring an attorney named Matthew Hope who lived in Calusa, Florida. Hope mostly dealt with routine issues like divorces and real estate......more

Goodreads review by K on March 21, 2020

In this Matthew Hope novel, Ed McBain capitalizes upon his prodigious skills in using dialogue to convey a story. Mr. Hope becomes hopelessly embroiled in the twisted mind of a client who has been committed under the Baker act. Having apparently attempted suicide, Sarah has been committed to a menta......more

Goodreads review by David on October 14, 2018

The Matthew Hope books are great, different but just as well written as the 87th Precinct. Hope is engaged by and then captivated by a beautiful girl committed to a mental institution by her mother. A parallel investigation by Hope's friend Morris Bloom into a body found in the water gradually makes......more

Goodreads review by Trish on November 09, 2018

OMG! WTH made anyone think that Terry was anything but dumb as a box of rocks. I mean Matthew, our hero thought she was honest and forthright because she said what she was thinking. That being the case she thought some pretty stupid stuff. After reading the time she spent with Matthew at the police......more

Goodreads review by Sonia on June 06, 2014

For genre study we were supposed to read an Ed McBain from his 87th precinct series but I starting reading this before I realized this is from his Matthew Hope series. Both are mysteries. Anyway, it was enjoyable for me because it's not graphic, gory, gritty or too dark. There were some seedy elemen......more

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