Long Time No See
3.5/5
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It’s a cold November when James Harris takes his dog, Stanley, for their usual rounds of panhandling. Blind since Vietnam and married to a blind woman as well, James realizes his disability pension and her part-time job go only so far. The money he makes on the streets is desperately needed—yet it’s still not enough. But after today it won’t matter…When Detective Steve Carella finds James’ wife murdered as well, her throat slit like her husband’s, it is no longer a random crime. And when another blind woman turns up dead, all Carella has to go on is the nightmare James told a psychiatrist after coming home from the war ten years ago. What he finds is a labyrinthine trail of betrayal, sex, and a secret worth killing to keep buried.
An intricately woven and flawlessly layered thriller, Long Time No See is a live wire in the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain, the bestselling author that People magazine describes as “a skillful writer who excels at pace, plot, and, especially, the complex clockwork of a cop’s mind.”
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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A blind man is murdered on his way home, his throat cut open. His seeing eye dog is chloroformed so it can’t protect him. Then his wife, who is also blind, is murdered in their home.“So why are you wasting time with all this Army business?” Byrnes asked. I asked myself that question several times while reading this. I think this is the longest 87th Precinct book so far, and at times, it felt like it. Interesting and well written, but long for just the one case. I did like how Carella used dream analysis to help figure out who-done-it! A new method, I believe, in this series! Also, I believe that the Carella family now has a new dog. No rabies.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If there is a sun that illuminates the police procedural, there is nothing new under it, because Ed McBain has already done it. This one, a highly entertaining post-Vietnam War puzzler, explores the psychology of wartime PTSD, manifested in dreams, memories, and in this case, murder and revenge. Every television cop show from Dragnet to The Sopranos to the one that I saw just a week ago (and can't remember what it is; such is age) bears a direct lineage to this simple yet compelling plot. Along the way is a wry exploration of "sex and the married man" featuring detective Carella. Then there's Stanley, the fiercely loyal seeing-eye Labrador retriever, who may just show up in future books.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Longer than previous entries, but just as engaging. This is prototypical procedural stuff with Carella chasing down all available leads until he has enough to crack the case. There's an odd bit in the middle that relies on a bit of psychoanalysis, some dream interpretation, some transposition, but mostly there is just good police work leading to an arrest and confession. Wholly satisfying.