Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast!
Careful with that ax(e), Eugene! Let's take a trip in the time-travelling toolshed back to 1964 and the 18th novel in the 87th Precinct police-procedural series by Ed McBain. The clear winner of the shortest-title-in-the-series competition - "Ax" - is a gruesome whodunnit, leading the cops of the Eight-Seven down blind-alleys and into dark-basements as they attempt to find out why poor old George Lasser ended up eating a faceful of chopper.
We open this episode with a little recap over what the essence of this book series is, as a recap and an initiation for new readers and listeners, before tackling our usual round of "What happened in this year?" in advance of our discussion, in an almost spoiler-free fashion, of the book. There's plenty of giggling at craps as well.
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Join us soon for our bonus episode and then we're onto book 19 which is (wait for it...) "He Who Hesitates". Fare Thee Well!
I enjoyed this one, its nice and short, readable in a couple of days. I found it a little disappointing, not in the writing itself but there was a preconceived notion of some bloody axe murderer going round killing loads of people, but it was just one killing. But even so it was rather good. I liked the fact that right at the end Carella kept his promise to his daughter, given the fact that what with what was going on the reader might have forgotten about that bedtime rhyme.
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