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    So Long As You Both Shall Live
    So Long As You Both Shall Live
    So Long As You Both Shall Live
    Audiobook5 hours

    So Long As You Both Shall Live

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work—and was gone. Now he’s finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage together…until bad luck catches him again.

    When Kling gets out of the shower, Augusta is gone, leaving behind one shoe—and cotton soaked in chloroform. Even harder than calling Detective Steve Carella with the news is standing on the sidelines while the rest of the men do all the work. But he’ll have to—or he’ll never see her alive again.

    A spine-tingling race against time as the detectives of the 87th do what they do best, So Long as You Both Shall Live is an extraordinary addition to the series, an Ed McBain masterpiece that marries taut police procedure with the personal stakes of a man who stands to lose everything—again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 21, 2012
    ISBN9781455873913
    So Long As You Both Shall Live
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      Bart Kling’s wedding day! But when he goes to take a shower on his wedding night, he comes out to find his brand-new bride has vanished - kidnapped! And Fat Ollie Weeks, of all people, gets to work to get her back. Even though “…Ollie was bigoted, slovenly, gross, humorless,…” , did terrible impressions of W.C. Fields, and smelled bad, he’s a hell of an investigator. And I really like the way he’s written. Especially his diet of 7 hamburgers and 3 cups of coffee...This is a taught, psychological-type thriller, a bit different from others in the series. Augusta's battles with her abductor are well written, and a bit creepy. Another good book of the 87th, and I do hope Fat Ollie transfer to the precinct!
    • 4/5
      The second 87th Precinct novel in a row that a) is more thriller than police procedural; b) features deep mental illness in an antagonist who; c) focuses on cutting, here with a scalpel rather than a knife, and; d) prominently features Fat Ollie Weeks -- a wonderfully entertaining character, typical of the 1970's tenancy toward antiheroes, although thankfully he's presented through humor rather than brooding. Since I'm reading them all in order I'm interested to see whether this thriller thing continues, but McBain does it very well, cranking up the tension to the very end. That's a good thing here, because the plot is a bit far-fetched, although what was in the '70's a pretty thrilling and probably unusual plot, it's now a thriller trope --the intelligent obsessive deranged killer -- that you can see on television every night of the week. So, with this novel and his Deaf Man books, McBain once again breaks ground for his successors.
    • 4/5
      We're up to the mid 1970s now and Bert Kling is finally tying the knot and on his wedding night his bride is kidnapped by a nutty stalker from the honeymoon suite. Obvs. Bert Kling is literally the unluckiest guy in literature. From that point on it's s super efficient procedural with informers grilled, leads chased down and bad guys braced. Fat Ollie makes his biggest contribution so far and he's an interesting addition to the team leaving Carella conflicted. In the hands of any other writer, he'd be a two-dimensional bit-player, but McBain offers him up unvarnished and forces us to find value in the least likely of places. The closing scene where Ollie acts without hesitation while Carella and Kling pause, is simple and stunning. Love these books.
    • 3/5
      Fat Ollie takes center stage in this 87th Precinct McBain. Bert Kling is marrying Augusta, a model, who is kidnapped from their wedding suite by a looney. The scene shifts back and forth between Augusta, who is not about to let things take their course without a fight, and the investigation. They are stymied with seemingly no leads, but Ollie, “ who was bigoted, slovenly, opinionated, crude, insensitive, gross, humorless, unimaginative…No, that wasn’t true. Ollie was imaginative,” joins the hunt and, with the help of the wedding photographer, develops the two leads that break the case open.Short, almost a novella, the book is standard McBain fare, that is to say, a solid police procedural.