Romance

Name: Romance
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Rating: 3.73 (36126 reviews)
Author: Mcbain Ed
ISBN: 9780446518048

It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is really attacked, outside the theater. And before the detectives of the 87th can solve that crime, the same actress is stabbed again. This time for keeps. A.D.A. Nellie Brand moves in for a murder conviction, but Detective Steve Carella is sure she's got the wrong guy, and wrestles for the case with Fat Ollie Weeks, Isola's foulest cop. While Bert Kling interviews witnesses and suspects ranging from the show's producers to the author — who has written novels about cops and knows how it's done — to the lead's lovely understudy, he can't keep his mind off what's happening to him. He's falling in love. With a doctor. Who happens to be a deputy chief surgeon. Who happens to be a black woman. In the city of Isola, nothing is black and white. In t...

Author: Mcbain Ed

ISBN: 9780446518048

Year of publication: 1995

Collection: 87th Precinct

Genre: Police detective

Number of pages: 243

Reading time: 4 h. 3 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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