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    Poison
    Poison
    Poison
    Audiobook8 hours

    Poison

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When one of your ex-boyfriends dies of poisoning, it is an unfortunate circumstance, possibly a suicide. When three go the same way, it is a disturbing pattern. The wealthy and beautiful Marilyn Hollis turns from a necessary interview to conclude a case to the prime suspect in a murder investigation. The problem is that Detective Hal Willis has broken a cardinal rule of detective work: he is Hollis’s newest beau.

    Now living with her despite the objections of Detective Steve Carella, Willis continues to do his duty as he tracks her former flames in search of a jealous murderer. But as the investigation progresses, he begins to get the sinking feeling that the killer shares his bed.

    Poison is Ed McBain in all his glory as his famed group of 87th Precinct detectives face off with a killer who lives and hides in their hearts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781455873883
    Poison
    Author

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain has been the recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. His 87th Precinct novels are international bestsellers. He lives in Connecticut.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent mystery that made me wonder if it inspired a popular cop/romance movie which came out a couple of years later. Narrator is really good, too.
    • 3/5
      “Guy was poisoned with nicotine.”This is a strange one in that one of the investigating detectives, Hal Willis, hooks up with, and then moves in with, one of the main suspects! Within 3 weeks of the first murder! It just didn’t seem likely. And then, there was way too much back story about the suspect. Heck, a whole chapter is included about her time in Mexico! And honestly, I didn’t care about it at all. I also felt that there was way too much written about the nicotine poison, especially the distillery process. The chemical science of it all was all over my head, and really slowed down the pace of the story.Overall, this was probably the least favorite book of mine in this series.
    • 2/5
      I first encountered Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series of novels as a teenager and thought they were marvellous. Indeed, they were probably the first so-called 'police procedurals' that I read, and I devoured them with great eagerness. It is, however, probably about ten years since I last read one, though when I saw this on offer very cheaply in the Kindle store I thought I would give it a go.Sadly this was not McBain at his best. It lacked both the gritty immediacy and the basic plausibility of his most accomplished novels. All of the old favourite characters are there: Detectives Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, Bert Kling and Cotton Hawes, preserved in some form of aspic. Many recent writers of crime fiction have tended to see their character age in real time, while others such as Ruth Rendell and P D James left their protagonists Chief Inspector Wexford and Commander Adam Dalgleish in an unspecified middle age while technology and police procedures evolved around them. McBain adopts this latter approach, with the 87th Precinct standing like the kingdom time forgot, with his Peter-Pan-like detectives featuring in more than fifty novels without ageing at all.That is not, of course, a problem in itself, and if the plot had matched up to his earlier ones I would have been perfectly happy. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. While it started promisingly with the discovery of a victim of a particularly unpleasant poisoning incident, it quickly subsided into mindless implausibility, if not inanity.I am hoping that this is not typical of his later work but I am reluctant to try any more in case my disappointment starts to erode my fond memories of his earlier books.
    • 3/5
      McBain writes police procedural mysteries, and I was curious as to whether I would enjoy them or not. This is the second I have read, and although I enjoy the world he creates, meaning he creates it well, not that it would be somewhere I want to visit, I do not care for this style of mystery.He sets out a good mystery. Although I had the culprit on my suspect list, I wasn't sure I was correct until late in the story. That is where my admiration ends though. This story felt like one big male fantasy to me. A woman gone bad, bad, used by men beyond belief, but still a young and sexy thing. The male in the story will "save" her with love, and she will fulfill his every desire in the bedroom and scream with pleasure while doing it. Blech.Needless to say, these are not for me.