Candyland - Hardcover

McBain, Ed; Hunter, Evan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743213165 ISBN 13: 9780743213165

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2001

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Physical description; 301 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; Ben Thorpe, an architect in New York on business, goes on a compulsive search for female companionship. Emma Boyle of the NYPD is investigating the murder of a prostitute, for which Ben is becoming the chief suspect. Subjects; Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Prostitutes -- Crimes against -- Fiction. New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction. Genres; Psychological Fiction. Suspense fiction. Fiction.

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Evan Hunter is known for his powerful novels and screenplays. Ed McBain is known for portraying the soul of the cop. They have distinct narrative voices, but both are bestselling storytellers who have received worldwide acclaim. Now, in Candyland, they join for the first time to write a single story -- a powerful novel of obsession. Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect -- and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on business, he spends the empty hours of the night in a compulsive search for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to an early morning confrontation in a midtown bordello and a searing self-revelation. Part I of Candyland is a fever-pitched search for identity, seen through Benjamin's obsessed eyes and told in classic Evan Hunter style. Part II opens in Ed McBain territory. Three detectives are discussing a homicide. The victim is a young prostitute whose path crossed Benjamin Thorpe's the night before. Emma Boyle of the Special Victims Unit is assigned to the case. As the foggy events of the previous night come into sharper focus, Thorpe becomes an ever more possible suspect. The detailed police investigation and excruciating suspense are classic Ed McBain. Shocking, bold, and compulsively readable, Candyland is a groundbreaking literary event.

Biografía del autor:

Evan Hunter's first novel, The Blackboard Jungle (1954), was an instant bestseller. He wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and a film based on his 1994 bestseller, Criminal Conversation, will begin production at Paramount this year.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743213165
• ISBN 13: 9780743213165
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304