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基本信息·出版社：Pocket Books
·页码：336 页
·出版日期：2000年12月
·ISBN：0671025708
·条形码：9780671025700
·版本：第1版
·装帧：简装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·丛书名：87th Precinct Series
·外文书名：终舞
内容简介 Book DescriptionIn this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him hurt so bad he's an invalid his whole life? You want him...killed? Let me talk to someone. It can be done.
The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct is nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug -- and a killer who stays until the last dance.
Amazon.comPenzler Pick, January 2000: When it comes to the novels of big-city cop life revolving around a single station house's daily dramas, Ed McBain wrote the book--50 of them, in fact. And whatever one thinks of the virtues of NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, or even Law and Order, there's the undeniable truth that McBain was there first, with his wonderfully reimagined New York. (Fans know that Isola is the stand-in for the borough of Manhattan, Riverhead for the Bronx, Majesta for Queens, Calm's Point for Brooklyn, and Bethtown for Staten Island.)
Here, as one hopes and expects, a body turns up within the opening pages. And also, as is often the case, Detective Steve Carella is there to spar with the medical examiner.
But there are other bodies and other police personnel in a story that takes the typical McBain route--no short cuts--that amounts to a crook's tour of the city he loves. With a cast of characters that ranges from socialites to hookers, The Last Dance takes in theater world chicanery, police brutality, and a pizza-joint massacre.
Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter, is the only American ever to have won the British Crimewriters Association's Diamond Dagger; he is a grand master of the Mystery Writers of America; his books have sold over a hundred million copies around the world; and he wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the Matthew Hope series of mystery novels with fairy tale and nursery rhyme titles (Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks, etc.), as well as the classic The Blackboard Jungle.
Celebrating the publication of the 50th novel in a series that stays amazingly fresh and incredibly readable is no small thing. This much-loved and seminal writer is a national treasure. If you're a mystery reader, you've undoubtedly read Ed McBain. If you haven't read one for a while, try this one. It's so good it will immediately send you scurrying back for the ones you missed.
--Otto Penzler
From Publishers WeeklyThe 50th novel of the 87th Precinct is one of the best, a melancholy, acerbic paean to lifeAand deathAin the fictional big city of Isola. The story begins with death: detectives Meyer Meyer and Steve Carella are questioning Cynthia Keating, whose father lies lifeless in a nearby bed. Cynthia claims she hasn't touched Andrew Hale since she discovered his body, but the cops suspect she's lying: for one thing, the corpse's feet are blue from postmortem lividity, a sign of death by hanging. The detectives' doubts turn darker when, after Cynthia admits she found her father hanged and, in shock, laid him down, the M.E. rules that Hale was murdered. Carella asks stoolie Danny Gimp to listen to the drums on the street for any hints of the killer. Danny calls back for a meet but is gunned down before Carella's eyes by two shooters, who escape. Much shoe leather hits the pavement before the cops find a possible motive: Hale left Cynthia the rights to a play now in preproduction as a major musical. If it's a hit, she and three other heirs stand to gain a fortuneAand Hale, the cops further learn, had refused to okay the production while alive. The dicks thus take their investigation into the bustling worlds of theater and high society, which McBain observes tartly. Further deaths ensue, further suspects arise, including a Jamaican hit man who sheds the blood of one of McBain's heroes. The closing of the case comes a tad easily to the cops and to the narrative, but overall this is McBain in classic form, displaying the writing wisdom gained over more than 40 years of 87th Precinct novels (the first appeared in 1956) to deliver a cop story that's as strong and soulful as the urban heart of America he celebrates so well. (Nov.)
About AuthorEd McBain is the only American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from The Last Dance, the fiftieth title in his outstanding 87th Precinct series, to the bestselling novels The Blackboard Jungle and Privileged Conversation, written under his own name, Evan Hunter. He is also the author of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Dragica.
Book Dimension: length: (cm)17.2 width:(cm) 10.6
作者简介 Ed McBain is the only American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from
The Last Dance, the fiftieth title in his outstanding 87th Precinct series, to the bestselling novels
The Blackboard Jungle and
Privileged Conversation, written under his own name, Evan Hunter. He is also the author of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's
The Birds. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Dragica.
媒体推荐 Los Angeles Times McBain...retains mastery of words, plots, small tragedies, and still smaller triumphs. -- Review
编辑推荐 Larry King
USA Today
McBain remains simply at the top of his game....The Last Dance [is] a great piece of writing.
^Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The fiftieth novel of the 87th Precinct is one of the best, a melancholy, acerbic paean to life -- and death -- in the fictional big city of Isola....This is McBain in classic form, displaying the writing wisdom gained over more than forty years of 87th Precinct novels to deliver a cop story that's as strong and soulful as the urban heart of America he celebrates so well.
^The New York Times Book Review
The real achievement is how Mc Bain has managed to sustain the continuity of the series for nearly half a century without compromising his formula or sacrificing its freshness....Having stripped down and refined his language over the years to the point where it now conceals as much as it reveals, McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet in The Last Dance, even those we thought we already knew.
^The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Airtight plot. Stun-gun dialogue. Morant wit. Start The Last Dance after dinner and you'll be done by News-at-11, which will seem oddly unauthentic after McBain's hyper-realism.
^Los Angeles Times
McBain...retains mastery of words, plots, small tragedies, and still smaller triumphs.
^Kirkus Review
McBain plots masterfully, each new encounter winding the skein tighter...[McBain shows] matchless affection for all his detectives, the good, the bad, and the dyspeptic.
^Barnesandnoble.com
Fresh, funny, lively, and literate.
^The Boston Globe
He is as good as ever.
^Booklist
[A] landmark series.
^Amazon.com
The Last Dance is so good it will immediately send you scurrying back for the [87th Prcinct novels] you missed...[McBain] is a national treasure.
