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Jack and the Beanstalk
Contributor(s): McBain, Ed (Author)
ISBN: 1612181945     ISBN-13: 9781612181943
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
OUR PRICE:   $12.56  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
- Fiction | Crime
Dewey: FIC
Series: Matthew Hope Mysteries (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.90 lbs) 274 pages
 
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Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snapbean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal--until Jack's found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times.

The backwoods seller wants his forty grand pronto, but nobody can find the cash. And when Matthew pays a visit to the McKinney ranch, he gets more than he bargained for. Jack's mother, Veronica, is a woman who looks half her years, with cool gray eyes to match her ambivalent attitude toward her son's death. The only thing more dangerous than Veronica is daughter Sunny, the mirror image of her mother and a girl who can hold her liquor. Everyone seems to have a theory about the missing money, but Matthew's the only one who can get to the bottom of the bum deal.

The fourth installment of Ed McBain's Matthew Hope Mysteries, Jack and the Beanstalk delivers our lawyer into a world of seedy folks, sour deals, and a family gone afoul.

Contributor Bio(s): McBain, Ed: - Born in New York, Evan Hunter (1926-2005) wrote the screen play for Hitchcock's The Birds in 1963. He received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and is one of three American writers to be awarded the Diamond Dagger for a lifetime of achievement by the British Crime Writers Association. Under the name Ed McBain, he authored the sprawling 87th Precinct series -- the longest, most varied crime series in the world -- which includes fifty-five novels about a fictional team of policemen, and thirteen novels in the Matthew Hope series featuring an up-and-coming lawyer in the Florida Gulf Coast. Known for tackling controversial content with a thoughtful eye, he is the author of over eighty novels.