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Book Reviews of The Last Best Hope (Matthew Hope, Bk 13)

The Last Best Hope (Matthew Hope, Bk 13)
The Last Best Hope - Matthew Hope, Bk 13
Author: Ed McBain
ISBN-13: 9780446519908
ISBN-10: 0446519901
Publication Date: 3/1/1998
Pages: 296
Rating:
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Book Type: Hardcover
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algernon99 avatar reviewed The Last Best Hope (Matthew Hope, Bk 13) on + 418 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another Ed McBain Matthew Hope book, as good as any of them. If you like McBain, this will be wonderful. McBain himself reads the story, so you know you're getting it the way the author intended it to be. He's a pretty darn good reader.
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Matthew Hope in his final adventure. Very good book
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McBain, an MWA Grandmaster, seamlessly combines the casts and locales of his Matthew Hope and 87th Precinct series into a coherent and entertaining whole. It begins when Jill Lawton approaches Hope, an attorney in Calusa, Fla., for help in finding her missing husband, Jack, whom she intends to divorce. That night, a body carrying Jack's identification turns up shot in the face and dead. It's not Jack Lawton's body, however, but that of Ernest Corrington, a burglar and would-be actor who was the third corner in a love triangle with Jack and a woman who goes by two names, Melanie and Holly. Jack and she have also comprised an erotic triangle with Jill. What binds these people together (besides the sexual geometry) is a plan to steal the Hemlock Cup from a local museum. The cup, the stuff of legends, is reputedly the very cup from which Socrates drank his poison. Jack, Jill, Holly/Melanie and Corrington hatch intricate plots to steal the cup?and to eliminate each other from collecting any part of the payment being offered by a Greek collector. Trying to trace Jack, Hope gets in touch with Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct "up north." Their collaboration is complicated by dead bodies and yet another boyfriend of Holly/Melanie's. Sound tangled? It is, but with McBain's skilled handling, it's crystal clear and an absolute delight.
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Classic McBain - worth the read.