Ed McBain: Goldilocks (USA 1996)

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WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?
There are crimes and there are crimes. Ask Matthew Hope, attorney, husband, friend, adulterer. Hope is defending an old friend in an ugly murder case: his client's wife and chil dren were brutally murdered on a quiet Calusa, Florida, street. Hope knows his client is lying about some things-but does that make him a killer? And what about Hope him-self-making love to another man's wife while pursuing truth and justice? As the cops turn up the heat, Hope's man starts to crack and so does the lawyer himself. Now, from beneath the surface of luxurious lives a tale of deception and rage is exploding-while a killer who visited once is free to come again...

"THE MATTHEW HOPE NOVELS DO FOR THE WORLD OF FLORIDA SLEAZE WHAT THE 87th PRECINCT BOOKS DO FOR BIG-CITY VICE. THE READER IS HOOKED AND GIVEN NOT A MOMENT'S LETUP." -- New York Times Book Review
"THE BEST CRIME WRITER IN THE BUSINESS." -- Houston Post
"DEFINITELY NOT FOR CHILDREN." -- Cosmopolitan

THE FIRST MATTHEW HOPE NOVEL WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ED McBAIN

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446603058 (September, 1996), 214 p., $5.99.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks (UK 1994)

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A woman and her two little girls have been brutally murdered. None of the alibis add up. The one person who couldn't possibly have a motive for the crime is the only one confessing to it, and he insists on Matthew Hope for his defence.

What Hope uncovers - piece by dazzling piece is a guilty secret world of other women and other men, double lives and desperately unhappy marriages. A world in which innocent victims are almost incidental to the real crime.

'Perhaps his best since he left the 87th Precinct. Compulsive, and very cunningly contrived with a stunning solution.' -- OBSERVER
'McBain is a master. He is a superior stylist, a spinner of artfully designed and sometimes macabre plots' -- NEWSWEEK

Don't miss Ed McBain's other exciting novels!
RUMPLESTILTSKIN also features Matthew Hope; his brilliant 87th Precinct novels include MISCHIEF, HE WHO HESITATES, SEE THEM DIE, BLOOD RELATIVES and LONG TIME NO SEE

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. A Matthew Hope Novel. Coronet, ISBN: 0340602988 (November, 1994), 214 p., £5.99.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks (USA 1985)

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Goldilocks... The Other Woman
Goldilocks - stealing into someone else's house, with no particular interest in the chairs or the porridge, but with more than a passing fascination with Poppa Bear's bed.

On the steamy west coast of Florida, in the quiet of their home, a woman and her two little girls have been brutally murdered. None of the alibis add up. The one person who couldn't possibly have a motive for the crime is the only one confessing to it, and he insists on Matthew Hope for his defense. Now Matt finds himself tangled in the unravelling threads of three heartless killings in which every half-sister, stepson, and first wife could have had a hand.

Somebody's lying.
Maybe everybody.

"ED McBAIN IS CLEARLY HAVING FUN WITH HIS NEW SERIES ABOUT ATTORNEY MATTHEW HOPE... A LIKABLE CHARACTER AND AN INTERESTING LOCALE... THE NEXT HOPE THRILLER CANNOT COME TOO SOON FOR ME!" -- Omaha World Herald

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. Pinnacle Books, ISBN: 0523424523 (December, 1985), 213 p., $3.50.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks (USA 1984)

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GOLDILOCKS
"THE OTHER WOMAN"
THE INTRUDER
WHO TRIES THE BED...
She is many things to Jamie: the uninvited other woman, then his second wife. And finally this. The corpse hacked grotesquely on the floor. Unbelievable. Jamie called Matt, his attorney. And then he called the police. He told them everything, every single little detail. But Jamie was lying. Why? Matt had to know-even if the truth choked him, brought him face to face with his own guilt...

ED McBAIN - GOLDILOCKS - "FAILPROOF!"- PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. A chilling novel of adultery and murder. Golden Apple Books, ISBN: 0553197916 (December, 1984), 182 p., $2.50.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks (USA 1979)

From the Publisher:
GOLDILOCKS "THE OTHER WOMAN"
THE INTRUDER WHO TRIES THE BED...
She is many things to Jamie: the uninvited other woman, then his second wife. And finally this. The corpse hacked grotesquely on the floor. Unbelievable. Jamie called Matt, his attorney. And then he called the police. He told them everything, every single little detail. But Jamie was lying. Why? Matt had to know-even if the truth choked him, brought him face to face with his own guilt...

"FAILPROOF!"- PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. A novel about "the other woman". Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553131583 (September, 1979), 182 p., $2.25.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks (UK 1979)

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"Ed McBAIN STRIKES AGAIN!" -- H.R.F. Keating, The Times
GOLDILOCKS
- stealing into someone else's house, testing the chairs and the porridge and especially the beds. Goldilocks, the other woman...
GOLDILOCKS
- something more than a murder mystery. A story which begins with the slaughter of the innocent, and goes on to reveal piece by dazzling piece. a guilty world of other women and other men, double-lives and creaking marriages. A world stained with moral murder of which few are innocent... for Goldilocks visits everyone, and everybody knows Goldilocks...

"Perhaps his best since he left the 87th Precinct... Compulsive, and very cunningly contrived with a stunning and not unduly contrived solution" -- The Observer

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. London: Corgi, 1979, ISBN: 0552110906, 203 p., 95p.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks (USA 1977)

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Goldilocks: "the other woman," the intruder, the one who comes like a thief in the night, testing the chairs and the porridge and the beds. Sometimes she destroys a marriage. Sometimes she destroys much more.

In a stunning departure from his famous 87th Precinct, Ed McBain tells a powerful story of psychological war-fare and human passion, of what hap pens to a marriage-and a family -when the fault lines crack open and erupt. At the novel's core is a chilling. ingenious narrative of murder and detection, but in its layers of detail and character, its brilliant exploration of moral ambiguity, of what it means to be "the other woman," as well as "the other man," it becomes much more: a major novel of contemporary life by a master of his craft.

Goldilocks is surprising, disturbing, enormously affecting -- a story of husband, wife, parent, child, lover, with a resonance to our lives matched by few other novels of its day.

Ed McBain: Goldilocks. A novel about "the other woman". Arbor House, ISBN: 0877951772 (November, 1977), 233 p., $8.95.