Goldilocks

by Ed McBain

Book Overview

A woman and her two daughters have been brutally murdered. The one person who could not have a motive is the only one confessing to it, and he insists on Matthew Hope for his defense. Definitely not... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877951772
• ISBN13: 9780877951773
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Early Hope

If you are lucky enough to find a copy of this read it. Much better than the usual Matthew Hope stuff. The characters feel tremendous pain, including Hope, and McBain is good enough to transmit it without ever being "novelistic" about it. Up to the best of the 87th precinct stuff.

Lies, Lies, Lies

Goldilocks is a tale of adultery and murder. And everbody in the book seems to be lying. When Maureen Purchase and her daughters are found savagely murdered, her husband's alibi doesn't check out. Playing cards? At A bar? Telling his lover he was going to leave his wife? His 1st wife is glad the 2nd is dead, his son is claiming credit for the murders and his lover claims to not know him. When his lawyer, Matthew Hope tries to get to the bottom of things, he can't tell the lies from the alibis and indeed Matthew Hope is lying to himself, as he promises HIS lover that he will leave HIS wife. All of this makes a compelling mystery and as delivered by Ed McBain, it is a great start to another series from the master of the police procedural.