Cinderella

Read Cinderella Storyline:

    Matthew Hope was in bed with his ex-wife when Otto
Samalson met his violent end on a dark Florida highway. Samalson 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 Samalson 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.
    
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    From Publishers Weekly
    This is the sixth in McBain's series of fearful "fairy
tales" starring lawyer Matthew Hope of Calusa, Fla., as compelling a character
as those in the author's popular 87th Precinct novels. When Hope's friend,
private eye Otto Samalson, is killed while on an assignment for him, the lawyer
makes up his mind to find the murderer. The investigation leads Hope into the
affairs of several men involved with a gorgeous hooker known as Cinderella.
Hired thugs on her trail leave behind them the bloody bodies of people they
question, and the lawyer is in constant danger. Cleverly eluding pursuers,
Cinderella guards a fortune in stolen cocaine with which she expects to secure a
rosy future until time and her luck run out. This is a violent story, more
horrifying than its gory predecessors (Goldilocks; Beauty and the Beast),
but very well written and a natural attraction for McBain fans.
    
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    "It is hard to mink of anyone better at what he does. In
feet, ifs impossible."
    -Robert B. Parker
    
    "McBain has a great approach, great attitude, terrific
style, strong plots, excellent dialogue, sense of place, and sense of
reality."
    -Elmore Leonard
    
    "I prefer Ed McBain to Raymond Chandler and place him far
ahead of Dashiell Hammett"
    -Roald Dahl
    
    "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
    
    "McBain is as convincing as Scott Throw or John Grisham
when he puts his lawyer, deadpan, before a judge and jury."
    -TIME
    
    "When McBain sets his tale to wagging, he commands close
attention."
    -Los Angeles Times
    
    "A master. He is a superior stylist, a spinner of
artfully designed and sometimes macabre plots."
    -Newsweek
    
    "Hope springs eternal, and hurrah for mat"
    -New York Daily News
    
    "You'll be engrossed by McBain's fast, lean prose."
    -Chicago Tribune
    
    "The best crime writer in the business."
    -Houston Post
    
    "The McBain stamp: sharp dialogue and crisp
plotting."
    -Miami Herald
    
    "McBain has stood the test of time. He remains one of the
very best"
    -San Antonio Express-News
    
    "McBain is the unquestioned king… light-years ahead of
anyone else in me field."
    -San Diego Union