Jack and the Beanstalk, Ed McBain
Jack and the Beanstalk, Ed McBain
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Jack and the Beanstalk

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/06/2012

Synopsis

Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snapbean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal—until Jack’s found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times. The backwoods seller wants his forty grand pronto, but nobody can find the cash. And when Matthew pays a visit to the McKinney ranch, he gets more than he bargained for. Jack’s mother, Veronica, is a woman who looks half her years, with cool gray eyes to match her ambivalent attitude toward her son’s death. The only thing more dangerous than Veronica is daughter Sunny, the mirror image of her mother and a girl who can hold her liquor. Everyone seems to have a theory about the missing money, but Matthew’s the only one who can get to the bottom of the bum deal. The fourth installment of Ed McBain’s Matthew Hope Mysteries, Jack and the Beanstalk delivers our lawyer into a world of seedy folks, sour deals, and a family gone afoul.

About Ed McBain

Born in New York, Evan Hunter (1926–2005) wrote the screen play for Hitchcock’s The Birds in 1963. He received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and is one of three American writers to be awarded the Diamond Dagger for a lifetime of achievement by the British Crime Writers Association. Under the name Ed McBain, he authored the sprawling 87th Precinct series — the longest, most varied crime series in the world — which includes fifty-five novels about a fictional team of policemen, and thirteen novels in the Matthew Hope series featuring an up-and-coming lawyer in the Florida Gulf Coast. Known for tackling controversial content with a thoughtful eye, he is the author of over eighty novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on April 16, 2024

Overall a fun read...I enjoyed it...I'll read a few more Matthew Hope books over the next couple of years...3 outta 5.........more

Goodreads review by David on March 15, 2018

Another outing for Matthew Hope, in his fictional town of Calusa, Florida. A young commercial client is found murdered and Hope gets drawn into his family of cattle ranchers. For someone who is not a criminal lawyer he gets drawn into some violent action!......more

Goodreads review by K on May 03, 2020

I have grown quite fond of this series, something that I hadn't expected having come to it as a dyed-in-the-wool devotee of the famed 87th Precinct series. But Ed McBain was, well, just very good at what he did, and managed to make his central character, along with those with whom he regularly inter......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 24, 2024

The story starts with a party, Matthew Hope getting beaten up and his girlfriend splitting up with him. Not a great start for Hope, made worse when a homicide victim is found with his business card in his wallet. Jack Mckinney hired Hope as an attorney in a purchase of a snap bean farm in Florida. Ho......more

Goodreads review by Luis on January 22, 2019

Narrada al estilo de los policiales tradicionales, esta novela de Ed McBain es entretenida y de fácil lectura, pero no presenta mayores sorpresas, y nos muestra algunos personajes bastante estereotipados. Su protagonista, un abogado devenido en eventual detective, debe lidiar con sus problemas sentim......more

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