So Long As You Both Shall Live, Ed McBain
So Long As You Both Shall Live, Ed McBain
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So Long As You Both Shall Live

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2012

Synopsis

Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work—and was gone. Now he’s finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage together…until bad luck catches him again.When Kling gets out of the shower, Augusta is gone, leaving behind one shoe—and cotton soaked in chloroform. Even harder than calling Detective Steve Carella with the news is standing on the sidelines while the rest of the men do all the work. But he’ll have to—or he’ll never see her alive again.A spine-tingling race against time as the detectives of the 87th do what they do best, So Long as You Both Shall Live is an extraordinary addition to the series, an Ed McBain masterpiece that marries taut police procedure with the personal stakes of a man who stands to lose everything—again.

About Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

It's a happy day for the detectives of the 87th Precinct when one of their own, Bert Kling, marries his beautiful girlfriend, a very successful model named Augusta Blair. After the wedding party is over, the newlyweds retire to their hotel room and Bert decides to take a shower before the real festi......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

We're up to the mid 1970s now and Bert Kling is finally tying the knot and on his wedding night his bride is kidnapped by a nutty stalker from the honeymoon suite. Obvs. Bert Kling is literally the unluckiest guy in literature. From that point on it's s super efficient procedural with informers gril......more

Goodreads review by David

#31 in the series, and Detective Bert Kling, he of the previously doomed love life, find himself marrying a top fashion model, with most of his Precinct colleagues in attendance. Disaster strikes when his bride is abducted from the honeymoon hotel. This is another book with a single plot, which I th......more

Goodreads review by CriminOlly

Another throughly entertaining police procedural from McBain. This isn’t a mystery as such, but it is incredibly gripping, with the bulls in a race against time to save Kling’s kidnapped bride, Augusta. Despite the woman in peril plot, McBain gives Augusta a lot to do and she’s far from a helpless v......more

Goodreads review by AndrewP

Amazing how often McBain can come up with a story that is nothing like any others in the series thus far. This one focuses on on Bert Kling's love life and how, when cops are personally involved in a case, they can sometimes lose focus. It takes an outsider to point them in the right direction......more

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