The Con Man
- ISBN-10
- 1612181848
- ISBN-13
- 9781612181844
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 204
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02-28
- Publisher
- 87th Precinct Mysteries (Paper
- Author
- Ed McBain
Description
When a young woman's body is fished out of the 87th Precinct's river, a street-wise detective is on the clock to find the con man who killed her before he strikes again. "McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet...even those we thought we already knew." --New York Times Book Review "Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment." --Entertainment Weekly
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