The Frumious Bandersnatch, Ed McBain
The Frumious Bandersnatch, Ed McBain
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The Frumious Bandersnatch

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Abridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2004

Synopsis

The kidnapping was audacious,
and there were plenty of witnesses...
But no one attending the dazzling launch party for up-and-coming pop idol Tamar Valparaiso knew what they were seeing when, halfway through her performance, masked men whisked the sexy young singer off a luxury yacht and into a waiting speedboat. Now, the evening that was supposed to send Tamar's debut album, Bandersnatch, skyrocketing with a million-dollar promotional campaign has instead kicked off a terrifying countdown for Steve Carella and the detectives of the 87th Precinct. Time is their enemy in the race to find Tamar's abductors -- before the rising star is extinguished forever.

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.

About Ron McLarty

Ron McLarty has appeared on Broadway in That Championship Season, Our Country's Good, and Moonchildren. His film credits include Two Bits, The Postman, and The Flamingo Kid. He has starred on television in Spenser for Hire and Cop Rock. Mr. McLarty is also a novelist and an award-winning playwright.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on June 02, 2016

The Frumious Bandersnatch has to be the strangest title of any of the fifty-four novels in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. For that matter, it has to be one of the strangest titles in all of crime fiction. It comes from a poem by Lewis Carroll and refers to a monster of some sort that is never cle......more

Goodreads review by Josh on July 19, 2016

Tamar Valparaiso is a budding pop star set to become a household name. Unfortunately for her, and her record label, her star is rising for all the wrong reasons. Two masked men storm a boat hosting Tamar's record launch and kidnap the pop singer, beating her dancer and injuring her in the process. T......more

Goodreads review by Skip on January 20, 2015

Disappointing. Tamar Valparaiso is the next hot pop sensation, and is kidnapped from a yacht chartered for a kick-off party for her newest album. Steve Carella catches the squeal, and is asked to stay involved by the promoter following a turf war with the FBI. Things go badly wrong, with the FBI's a......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on May 21, 2016

This is my favorite so far of the few 87th Precinct mysteries I've read. As a fan of Lewis Carroll's writings, of course I couldn't resist the title. I do like the way Ed McBain could write a solid, often shocking, crime story while brilliantly leavening things with humor, in this case satirizing th......more

Goodreads review by AndrewP on February 24, 2024

The title of this book references a line in the Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky and in this case is the title track of an upcoming singers debut album. At the big release party the singer is kidnapped and the detectives of the 87th become involved with the feds in solving the case and getting her bac......more

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