Cinderella by Ed McBain (1986)

Cinderella
by Ed McBain
Publisher:  Henry Holt and Company
Copyright:  1986
Book Club Edition

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, middle-aged 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 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, 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.

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