Ed McBain: Cinderella (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Private detective Otto Samalson sees the tail -- a black Toronado he can't shake. One dark window rolls down, exposing the barrel of a gun, and the detective is dead.

Otto had already known his days were numbered and said as much to his friend, attorney Matthew Hope. Having hired Otto to watch a cheating husband for a client, Matthew is now left with only Otto's tape recorder, filled with proof of an affair. But could the evidence lead to something larger, something that would drive a man to kill?

Meanwhile, a mysterious woman is on the run, her face and name unknown to all except two stepsisters who couldn't care less if a violent pair of Cubans got their hands on her. If Matthew can decipher the clues in Otto's evidence, there's a chance he could reach the girl first and save her life.

A chilling addition to the Matthew Hope series from Ed McBain, Cinderella is the tale of a woman known by many names and the men who will do anything to find her.

Ed McBain: Cinderella. A Matthew Hope Mystery. Thomas & Mercer / Amazon Publ., ISBN: 9781612181929 (October, 2012), 274 p., $13.95.

Ed McBain: Cinderella (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
MIDNIGHT DEADLINE
Matthew Hope was in bed with his ex-wife when Otto Samuelson met his violent end on a dark Florida highway. Samuelson was investigating a kinky case of adultery for attorney Hope, who then had to make sure the case hadn't done the detective in. It hadn't. Instead, kindly, bald-headed Otto Samuelson had the misfortune of crossing paths with a beautiful girl of many names, a high-priced hooker cutting a path of tricks through South Florida. Now Hope has crossed her path, too. And whether he likes it or not, he is going to find out why some very dangerous men, having once invited a Cinderella to the ball, are now moving heaven and earth -- and everyone in between -- to make sure they punch her ticket.

Ed McBain: Cinderella. A Matthew Hope Novel. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446601349 (May, 1994), 262 p., $5.99.

Ed McBain: Cinderella (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
She was a hooker, but a hooker with style, looksy youth -- and a once-in-a-million shot at the big money. Her target was a Latino coke dealer whdse idea of a good time did not include losing four kilos to a broad -- and a hooker at that.

He was a middle-aged private eye with a taste for whiskey. and a lonely habit of hang- ing out in bars. He didn't have an enemy in the world -- until someone tailed him after he left the last bar and killed him on a deserted Florida highway.

Criminal lawyer Matthew Hope was in bed with his ex-wife when he heard the radio announcer say that Otto Samalson had been shot dead on US. 41, Otto had been working ona marital investigation for Hope; at the same time, hed been tracking the shady lady whose fairy tale transformation carried him to his own midnight deadline.

Cinderella is a multilayered thriller set on the underside of Florida's gold coast, where money, sex, and drugs are the staff of life -- and life itself is fast, nasty, and often very short.

Ed McBain: Cinderella. A Matthew Hope Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445406186 (August, 1987), 262 p., $3.95.

Ed McBain: Cinderella (UK 1986)

From the Publisher:
Otto Samalson was in absolutely no doubt. The man and the woman he had been watching were certainly having an affair, though Otto put it rather more tersely, indeed crudely, than that. But then Otto was murdered, And Matthew Hope had to move stage centre.

It wasn't a nice case. A dead private investigator, a couple of Cubans with extremely direct methods, assorted villains, hookers and drug dealers - and still they maintained that the crime rate in Calusa was acceptably low. Then, Matthew's own private life wasn't exactly running smoothly, with his former wife Susan showing an unexpected interest in his body, and perhaps even in his mind. Above all, though, there was the girl who reminded people of Cinderella. And she was indeed the trouble. Glass slippers were one thing, but the violence and death she left in her wake was something else again.

Ed McBain is in cracking form with the latest Matthew Hope novel. The characters are no nicer than the case, but that's life - or rather death - in Calusa. And there's always Matthew to add a redeeming note to one of the most dramatic cases he'll ever have to solve.

Ed McBain: Cinderella. Hamish Hamilton, ISBN: 0241118336 (August, 1986), 272 p., £9.95.

Ed McBain: Cinderella (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
She was a hooker, but a hooker with Style, looks, youth -- and a once-in-a-million shot at the big money, a real chance to buy her way out of The Life. The downside was her target: a Latino drug-dealer whose idea of a good time did not include losing four kilos of cocaine to a broad -- and a hooker at that.

He was a slightly overweight, middleaged private investigator with a penchant for whiskey and a lonely habit of hanging out in bars. He didn't have an enemy in the world -- until someone tailed him after he left, the last bar and, on a deserted Florida highway, shot him dead.

Matthew Hope was in bed with his ex-wife when he heard the radio announcer say that Otto Samalson had been shot dead on U.S. 41: Otto, at work on a case for Matthew; Otto, who'd said at their last meeting, "I think my days are numbered."

And thus begins the sixth and most complex in the Matthew Hope series. A multi-layered thriller in which greed and exploitation explode into murder and mayhem, it is Ed McBain in top form: a cunning, twisting tale set on Florida's gold coast, where money, sex, and drugs are the staff of life -- and life itself is fast, nasty, and too often very, very short.

Ed McBain: Cinderella. A Matthew Hope Novel. Henry Holt & Co., ISBN: 0030049598 (April, 1986), 262 p., $14.95.