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Title	:	Long Time No See (87th Precinct #32)
Author	:	Ed McBain
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	November 28th 1982 by Bantam Books (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction

Long Time No See (87th Precinct #32) Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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They never saw their executioner. Because each victim had this in common: they were blind. Steve Carella, a weary detective very much in love with his deaf wife, is stymied in a hunt that began when a Vietnam veteran, his sight taken in war, was found with his head nearly separated from his body. But as the bizarre killing spree goes on, Carella begins to look into the first victim's dreams. And what he sees is a panorama of war, sexuality, secrets, and torment -- and one man's pure, blind rage...

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Original Title:	Long Time No See
ISBN:	0553231308 (ISBN13: 9780553231304)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	87th Precinct #32

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Fantastic Nothing to dislike. Ed Mcbain combines a cracking story with beautiful writing and a wealth of characters. Up to his usual standard.

"In the good old days, your average real-life murder was a woman coming into the apartment and finding her husband drunk again, and shaking him, and then saying the hell with it, and sticking him sixteen times in the chest and throat. That was real life, baby. You wanted bullshit, you went to mystery novels written by ladies who lived in Sussex. Thrillers. About as thrilling as Aunt Lucy's tatted night cap."So says Ed McBain in typically snappy style in this 87th Precinct novel. We are well into

I must admit that I sometimes shy away from novels with blind characters. Far too often, they are portrayed in ways that I as a blind person find offensive. But, since I've been thoroughly enjoying the books in this series, and since the author has portrayed other people with disabilities realistically, I thought I'd give this one a try. Sadly, I wish I hadn't.The story is compelling enough. A Vietnam veteran who was blinded in the war is murdered. His wife, who is also blind, is questioned, but

Steve Carella is the lead detective in this 87th Precinct novel of murder - three murders of blind people, the first of which is a Vietnam vet blinded in action ten years earlier. Carella pushes hard on theories from the war and earlier in the victim's gang life. McBain takes time for a good description of the city of Isola and the writing is almost lyrical in parts. Great book and hardly dated from 40 years ago.



Longer than previous entries, but just as engaging. This is prototypical procedural stuff with Carella chasing down all available leads until he has enough to crack the case. There's an odd bit in the middle that relies on a bit of psychoanalysis, some dream interpretation, some transposition, but mostly there is just good police work leading to an arrest and confession. Wholly satisfying.

Long Time No See is another solid entry in Ed McBains 87th Precinct series. The plot is clever and well constructed, and the book is filled with excellent examples of realistic dialogue and police investigation in a pre-internet world. So why just three stars? Because oftentimes someones strength is also their greatest weakness. In this case, McBains uncanny talent for seamlessly inserting mundane, common events into the action (e.g., one cops irritation with another because of a difference