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    'Til Death
    'Til Death
    'Til Death
    Audiobook5 hours

    'Til Death

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The wedding day of Detective Steve Carella’s sister Angela should be the most romantic, special day of her life. But it might turn out to be the worst if her brother can’t figure out which man on the guest list has come to murder the groom.

    Carella and the men from the 87th Precinct find themselves on the clock as they desperately hunt amongst the name cards and catered dinners for the would-be assailant. Trouble is, the crowd has numerous people with viable motives: the best man who stands to inherit everything the groom owns, the ex-boyfriend with a homicidal crush, and even an ex-GI with a score to settle. But time is ticking, and if they don’t act fast, Angela will become a bride—and a widow—on the same day.

    Another riveting installment of the 87th Precinct series, ‘Til Death is one of bestseller Ed McBain’s finest, an intense, life-and-death nerve-wracker hailed by the Literary Review as “zestful, inventive, and utterly compulsive.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9781455873937
    'Til Death
    Author

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award–nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter—including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a fiftieth anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005. Visit EdMcBain.com.

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    • 3/5
      The 9th book in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series may be the weakest link in the chain so far. The beginning is promising: Detective Steve Carella’s sister is getting married and on the morning of her wedding day, her groom is sent a box. Inside the box is a black widow spider. But it goes down from there – the threat is never quite threatening enough, and the villains not quite villainous enough. Though McBain is sufficiently liberal for the 1950s (he has likeable characters from various ethnic groups) the book slips over into Mickey Spillane territory in its depiction of women. And it becomes increasingly clear by this point that McBain hasn’t figured out a way for Carella’s wife Teddy, a deaf-mute, to communicate in any other way than very basic facial expressions. Some of this will change as the series progresses, but this book more than most of the other early ones, is very much of its time — unfortunately.
    • 4/5
      Steve Carella's sister is getting married! But someone doesn't seem to want her groom to survive their wedding day, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase " 'til death do us part"! To add even more pressure to events, Steve’s wife is close to delivering their first child! A good, quick read, that really moves along at a nice clip! Maybe the best paced book in the series yet! Very enjoyable!
    • 3/5
      Potboiler set at the wedding of Steve Carella's sister and ending with Teddy having twins. Inessential.
    • 3/5
      It wasn't terrible. Not my favorite of the early novels though.
    • 4/5
      Carella's sister, Angela, is getting married, and not one but two different men are after her groom, Tommy (who later becomes a cocaine addict, but that's neither here nor there). It was a pretty good one, because one of the killers is obvious, but the second one isn't (at least, not to me), so just when you think it's all over, it's not.
    • 5/5
      Still the best mystery writer ever! This was my 42 McBain 87th Precinct mystery, and I never tire of reading another one. Great way to break up your reading experience -- read any McBain mystery! If you've never read one, you'll not regret it!
    • 4/5
      The 9th entry in McBain's classic 87th Precinct police procedural series. Steve Carella enlists some of his precinct mates to help him figure out if a threat made on the life of his prospective brother-in-law is serious or just a joke. The action takes place mostly at the big fat Italian wedding of Carella's sister, Angela, with Bert Kling, Cotton Hawes and Meyer Meyer lending a hand — and an occasional fist or gun — to their buddy. This was one of the first series that got me hooked on crime and mystery books back when I was a kid, and now I'm re-reading them in order.
    • 4/5
      Steve Carella's younger sister is getting married, but there are deadly plans beyond the ceremony and reception, and his sister and future brother-in-law are at the center of the potentially fatal plot.'Til Death takes place in June, roughly nine months after Killer's Wedge.Another race-against-time story, this one succeeds to ramp the tension up a bit more than Lady Killer did, although this might have less to do with the quality of the story than it does the personal connections the majority of the characters share. The plot actually plays a bit too much like your typical murder-mysteries of the time, and the only thing that really separates it from the rest is the cast of the 87th as they get involved at Carella's behest.In response to a cryptic death threat received by his sister's fiance, Carella convinces Hawes and Kling to attend the wedding on their day off, while Meyer and O'Brian track down leads at the station and on the town. Add Hawes' date (Christina, the book store owner he questioned back in Lady Killer) and a very expecting Teddy to the multiple suspects and murder attempts flooding the scene, and the story begins to feel as crowded and hectic as an actual wedding party.The most interesting aspect of this story, however, might be the femme fatale Oona, who proves to be one of the more brutal and vicious characters to grace the pages of the 87th. Indeed, Oona's savage beating of Hawes and her bestial attacks that prove nearly as deadly as her looks makes her an overpowering force to be reckoned with. Coming on the heels of the cold and calculating revenge seeking widow that brutally assaulted several members of the squad in Killer's Wedge, it is hard to ignore McBain's recent habit of shoving overwhelmingly evil and abusive women into the lead heavy role, an act that one would be tempted to label as misogynistic if it weren't leveled by the all too human and sympathetic females that make up the vast population of The City.