Calypso
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A calypso singer fresh off a gig walks home in a downpour, when shots tear through his head like steel rain. A girl out on the street in the same miserable weather doesn’t know her final trick will be her last. What brings these two sad ends together…the same gun.
It is stormy in the 87th Precinct and with every hour that passes, every minute the killer stays on the loose, the trail is only going to get colder. But that first clue always leads to another, and Detectives Carella and Meyer find themselves in a dark, twisted world of sex and sadism that ripples through the city’s veins like a virus. If they don’t find their man soon, the sickness will turn deadly again…and again…and again…
Taut and relentless with the brute force of a bullet to bone, Calypso is one of the darkest entries in bestselling author Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series.
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: 4 out of 5 stars4/5“…when he was still a guest and not a prisoner…”King George (real name of George Chadderton), singer of calypso and a guitar player, is shot and killed walking home after his concert. Then a hooker named CJ.. Then a third person...This book has a “plenitude of blondes” and a “plethora of daisies” for the 87th to sift through. It also has a criminally insane perp. Super insane. Creepy, off the rocker insane. That poor, poor, final victim...Great last line, after Carella had wrapped up the case, "But the phone on his desk was ringing again."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McBain continues in the thriller vein with this exploration of madness in connection with what appears to be a "standard" urban murder case. Can't say much without spoiling the plot, which climaxes in s shocker for all involved. Even in this wild ride, the characterizations are sharp, and he makes his points about the haves and have nots.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Perhaps the weakest 87th Precinct detective novel I've yet encountered. Disappointing . . . yet still worth reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bones began remembering. As far as Meyer could tell, he was remembering in great detail and with a maximum of accuracy. It was not until several hours later - when Meyer compared notes with Carella on the telephone - that he recognized Bones' story was not without its inconsistencies. In fact, there were only two congruent points between the story Barragan had told Carella and the one Bones told Meyer; both men agreed that George C. Chadderton was an egotistical prick, and both men agreed that is was raining on the night Santo Chadderton disappeared. As for the rest . . .To start with I wasn't sure that I had read this book before, but when I began to suspect what the police would find in the house at the end, I knew that I had. After all, who could forget an ending like that?