A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short.
Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Carlton Markham, who’s been arrested for his filmmaker wife’s murder but says he didn’t do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham’s not giving up that easily on his innocence. And when Matthew digs deeper into the victim’s business—from heavy financial backers to sleazy egomaniacs—he finds she may not have been the perfect lady she had seemed. The one piece of evidence that could set Markham free and finger the real killer is the victim’s film reel. Only it’s gone, along with the film’s sexy star. Now Matthew needs to infiltrate the seedy side of the film industry in order to find the missing reel and solve the murder.
From master storyteller Ed McBain, Puss in Boots is another Matthew Hope Mystery classic, the tale of a woman who aimed too high and the many men who fell for it all.
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"Pretty good Ed McBain novel set in the world of porn filmmaking. Also reads a little like John Grisham at times. McBain has the ability to have lots of characters telling their story within the novel without it becoming too clunky or complex." — Pat (4 out of 5 stars)
"Pretty good Ed McBain novel set in the world of porn filmmaking. Also reads a little like John Grisham at times. McBain has the ability to have lots of characters telling their story within the novel without it becoming too clunky or complex."
" This one started off like it would be marginally better than the last ones, but it really wasn't. I can see why he only wrote 13 of these and like seventy 87th precinct series (that's an estimate of course) "
" Good solid McBain read. This is my first of the Matthew Hope series. A little more character development, but very similar to the precinct novels. "
Ed McBain is the most well known pseudonym of Evan Hunter (1926–2005), the author of over eighty novels and several famous screenplays. He is a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award and the Diamond Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers Association. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series to the bestselling novels written under his own name. McBain also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Luke Daniels, winner of sixteen AudioFile Earphones Awards and a finalist for the Audie Award for best narration, is a narrator whose many audiobook credits range from action and suspense to young-adult fiction. His background is in classical theater and film, and he has performed at repertory theaters around the country.
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