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    David A. Freas

    I believe Ed McBain is one of the greatest wordsmiths ever – on a par with Dickens and the other masters of the craft. Only McBain could make the description of the gritty side of a city sound lyrical. His long, lyrical passages (describing in depth everything from that gritty side of a city to a detective being in love) should slow his stories down, make them drag. But McBain’s prose is so smooth, so dead-on, they slip by without the slightest hitch in the flow.The books in this series span 50 years (1956 – 2005) and one of the great things about reading them is seeing how police work – the methods, equipment, and tactics – has changed over that time.Other great things about these books:1/ McBain kept these stories short and taut but never shortchanged the reader. Most run around 200 pages, yet are more complete than the 400 – 500-page tomes some authors churn out.2/ The quality never wavered. The stories were always interesting, the writing never got stale3/ McBain never turned his cops into superheroes. He made them real people with real weaknesses. And that made these books even better because the reader could identify at least in part with Carella and his friends.This story is the second appearance of The Deaf Man – the only bad guy to appear in more than one 87th Precinct novel – and he again is giving Steve Carella and his fellow officers fits. And again, I find the stories featuring him the least impressive and enjoyable in the series.I’ve read all but 5 of the 57 books in this series, and I haven’t read a bad one yet. But each one I read brings me one book closer to having read them all. When that day comes, it will be a sad day as far as I’m concerned.

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    bookgal

    I love Ed McBain. His books are serious, comic, irreverent and a joy to read. And its amazing the range he had with the 87th Precinct Books of which this is one — and the lawyer Matthew Hope to Blackboard Jungle, written as Evan Hunter.This is the 12th in the percent books with all the usual characters -- working cops just trying to put away the bad guys. And they have come across an old nemesis they thought was dead. Steve Carella is dressed as a homeless man to catch teenagers who are setting homeless men on fire; he gets burned and he gets beat up. Meanwhile, the others on his team receive a threatening note that if someone is not paid $5,000, a commissioner will be killed -- and is. Then the note asks for more, to not kill the deputy mayor and in a spectacular bombing, he is killed. In the midst of all this the town of Isola is hit by one of the biggest storms in history, the police department is being painted by seemingly inept painters who spatter everything and finally, the cops come across an attempt to rob a tailor. And somehow, its at the tailor's where everything somehow comes to gather. Very much as you realize it probably happens for many crimes. The characters feel real and speak realistically, and you feel for them the whole time you're reading the book. Ed McBain/Evan Hunter was a genius. There are few authors I can say that for every time I open a book.

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    Fourlocks

    I am biased but I find that all of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels are good and Fuzz is no exception. The earlier books are shorter and more succinct than the later ones. All of Mr. McBain's novels have two driving forces: great plots and great characters. I love the people of the 87th because they are so well written that I feel like I know them. Now Mr. McBain's plots remind me of Hill Street Blues before it got ruined. The 87th Precinct novels, when they start, give the impression that life started way before Page 1 and that life will continue after the Last Page. Ed McBain did not believe in wrapping up a novel into a neat little bow by the end. You know that cases had started before the major one and that cases will continue after, whether the main plot is done or not. Like Hill Street Blues's story arcs, these novels are called police procedurals for a reason. With the exception of the Deaf Man (the 87th's version of Professor Moriarty) and his nefarious machinations, all of the other cases, criminals, cops, snitches, etc. seem exceptionally real. The police procedures are real. The fact that every case is not solved is real. The fact that characters die is real. I love the people of the 87th. I want the criminals caught. I want the cops to succeed and survive. Ed McBain can be deep in his observations, conservative in his descriptions, generous in his dialogue, and humorous in everyday situations and even very dark ones. Are these novels everyone's cup of tea? No, no novel is, even those considered classic literature. I love these novels and one of my deepest regrets is that I never got to meet Evan Hunter before he passed away to thank him for the many, many hours of enjoyment I have realized from his work.

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