McBain is a very good writer and I have lots of his books on the bookcase, which I haven’t read for years. I have wasted a lot of money on low grade detective novels on my kindle (which is of course a great device if you are trying to fit reading material into a holiday suitcase), but sitting at home in a house full of books, it may be better (and cheaper) to stick with paper.
This is a very clever book – written I assume as a musical nocturne, (is this a musical form, or just a mood evoking night?) as well as being about the nightshift at 87th precinct and, inter alia, the death by apparent murder of a concert pianist. The plot has a circular, interlinked structure which may well be a rondo musically rather than a nocturne, but it is a very good book.
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