Serie Noire 1: Apres Le Trepas (Series #A49464) (Paperback)

from asxz

Seasonally appropriate procedural with some mixed up notions of love and addiction and the things that drive men to murder. Poor Bert Kling, so unlucky in love.

from dbeveridge

Great dialogue, flawless plotting , making the difficult appear easy; a wonderful example of great skill and humor: that is just what you expect from Ed McBain. A Christmas-winter theme provides the atmosphere that limns each of his novels.

from DeltaQueen50

I chose to read Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain because it appears on the British Crime Writers Assoc. Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time and the H.R.F. Keating 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books. This is the 26th book in the author's 87th Precinct series that features the police and detectives of a...

from michaelm42071

Ed McBain's Sadie When She Died (1972), the 26th of McBain's 87th Precinct books that began with Cop Hater in 1956, is about the death two weeks before Christmas (by a particularly vicious ripping of her belly) of Sarah Fletcher, whose husband, after summoning the police, makes the unusual commen...