The Empty Hours, Ed McBain
The Empty Hours, Ed McBain
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The Empty Hours

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2012

Synopsis

Three nerve-racking stories from bestselling author Ed McBain put detectives from the 87th Precinct on the trail of different killers who take the lives of a rich woman, a rabbi, and a ski instructor.“McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet…even those we thought we already knew.” —New York Times Book Review“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

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

The fifteenth entry in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series consists of three novellas featuring the precinct's detectives. In the first, a wealthy young woman is found murdered in a room in a run-down boarding house. Why in the world was she living there, when she had loads of money and a very upscale......more

Goodreads review by CriminOlly

A break from the norm, in that this features 3 novellas rather than a single novel, but none the worse for it. My favourite of the 3 stories was the last one, which has Hawes on a skiing holiday, butting heads with the local cops as he tries to solve a murder.......more

Goodreads review by Noah

First of all, the cover of the edition I read describes this thing as an “87th precinct novel”. It isn’t a novel. It’s a collection of stories. I like stories but if I begin reading something with the idea that it’s a novel I don’t like discovering that it isn’t when I get to page 90. I get it that......more

Goodreads review by Tom

Three novellas involving the cast of the 87th. Didn't know how I'd feel about short stories instead of the usual length, but I was very pleasantly surprised. All three stories were concise and intriguing and character driven. McBain doesn't get nearly enough credit for his character development and......more

Goodreads review by K

The Empty Hours by Ed McBain is really a collection of three short stories. Each story is self contained, features one or more of the detectives of the 87th precinct, and all are entertaining and well paced. Of the three, I found the second story to be the most compelling. It’s the second day of Pass......more

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