Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (USA 2013)

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Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: his wife's body with a knife buried in it. Though he shamelessly cops to being happy she's dead, his alibi is airtight and all signs point to a burglary gone bad. But even when detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling follow the clues to a junky punk and get a full confession, Carella can't quit thinking there's something about the case that's as phony as a sidewalk Santa's beard. Maybe it's because the victim's husband wants to pal around with the suspicious cop on a cryptic pub-crawl through the urban jungle. Or maybe it's the dead woman's double identity and little black book full of secret lovers. Whether she was Sarah the shrewish wife or Sadie the sex-crazy swinger, there's more to her murder than just a bad case of "wrong place, wrong time." And Carella won't rest till his cuffs are on the killer.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died. An 87th Precinct Novel. Thomas & Mercer, ISBN: 9781477805725 (November, 2013), 190 p., $14.95.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (UK 2003)

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The dead woman had a knife in her chest, and the husband didn't even try to hide the fact that he was happy about it. From the very beginning, Detective Steve Carella is sure that someone was hired to make the killing look like an interrupted robbery. Then the victim's secrets start to spill out of the closet and Carella finds himself descending into the dark world of the city's sexual underground to discover the truth.

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Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died. An 87th Precinct Novel. Orion Crime MASTERWORKS, ISBN: 0752856154 (February, 2003), 183 p., £6.99.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (USA 2001)

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THE 87th PRECINCT
By day the city works. By night it plays, and everyone is invited to the game: the rich and the poor, the adventurous and the tame. Sometimes, the playground turns deadly. Sometimes, the homicide detectives from the 87th Precinct are invited, too...

SADIE WHEN SHE DIED
The victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carella is sure someone was hired to make the murder look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets begin to come out of the closet. Now happily married Steve Carella and unhappily single Bert Kling are entering a city's sexual underground to find out which is more dangerous: a world where anything goes-or a husband with secrets of his own.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died. An 87th Precinct Mystery. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446609692 (January, 2001), 208 p., $6.99.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (USA 1973)

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"ED MCBAIN - NOVELIST EVAN HUNTER'S PEN NAME WHEN HE WRITES THESE MYSTERIES - IS A MASTER... HE HOOKS YOU... HOLDS YOU..." -- CHICAGO SUN-TIMES BOOK WEEK

What could be easier? He had a confessed killer, clear fingerprints, and a witness. Everything was sewed-up tight. Or was it?
But Detective Steve Carella could not forget Gerald Fletcher, standing beside the body of his beautiful wife Sarah, announcing how glad he was that someone had stabbed her. And then when Fletcher kept wining and dining him, flattering and heckling him, tossing him clue after clue, Carella could sniff that there was more to Sarah's death than just bungled burglary.

When Sarah's little black book turned up with a mile-long record of her loving, nocturnal adventures, Steve knew it was clearly time to call in the boys of the 87th Precinct to find out why everyone was calling Sarah SADIE WHEN SHE DIED.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died. An explosive sizzling 87th Precinct Mystery. New American Library / Signet #E8930 (August, 1973 - 4th printing, no date given), 160 p., $1.75.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
"ED MCBAIN - NOVELIST EVAN HUNTER'S PEN NAME WHEN HE WRITES THESE MYSTERIES - IS A MASTER... HE HOOKS YOU... HOLDS YOU..." -- CHICAGO SUN-TIMES BOOK WEEK

What could be easier? He had a confessed killer, clear fingerprints, and a witness. Everything was sewed-up tight. Or was it?
But Detective Steve Carella could not forget Gerald Fletcher, standing beside the body of his beautiful wife Sarah, announcing how glad he was that someone had stabbed her. And then when Fletcher kept wining and dining him, flattering and heckling him, tossing him clue after clue, Carella could sniff that there was more to Sarah's death than just bungled burglary.

When Sarah's little black book turned up with a mile-long record of her loving, nocturnal adventures, Steve knew it was clearly time to call in the boys of the 87th Precinct to find out why everyone was calling Sarah SADIE WHEN SHE DIED.

Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died. An explosive sizzling 87th Precinct Mystery. New American Library / Signet #Q5570 (August, 1973 3rd printing, no date given), 160 p., ¢95.