Beauty and the Beast

by Ed McBain

Book Overview

Matthew Hope is a divorce lawyer in the town of Calusa, Florida, where the Gulf waters are warm and the women on the beach topless. One such woman, Michelle Benois Harper--a striking beauty with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030621984
• ISBN13: 9780030621987
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A light fun tropical read.

I like Ed McBain's Mathew Hope series. While not as complicated, noir or hardboiled as the 87th Precinct novels, they are great fun and witty.This one was almost a short story. Good workable plot, a couple interesting sidebars, enjoyable characters and a resolution you can accept.The Florida scene is well set in the fictitious city of Calussa with a couple of Miami excursions. Mathew Hope is an interesting protagonist...a lawyer with a heart of gold willing to be a private eye for his client as well.It's fast, easy and entertaining.

I LOVED THIS MATTHEW HOPE BOOK

I BROUGHT THE BOOK IN FLORIDA, WHERE MATTHEW HOPE LIVES. I LIKE THE CHARACTER MORRIS BLOOM. HE MAKES ME LAUGH. THE THINGS MATTHEW SAYS MAKE ME LAUGH ALSO. IN THIS STORY, BEAUTY WAS THE BEAST. I LOOK FORWARD TO READING ED MCBAIN'S 87TH STREET PRECINCT BOOKS ALSO.