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Dec. 11th, 2014 09:17 pmWith all the recent driving around—in traffic—that I've been doing, I finally broke out one of the "book on CD" packages that are often sold at garage sales for a song.
The book I settled on was Fiddlers, by the late Ed McBain. It's one of his "87th Precinct" stories, and the audio version occupies five CDs.
The story falls squarely into the "police procedural" genre, in which the murderer and the cops operate in completely separate arcs until almost the very end. The reader's (listener's) interest is held, on the one hand, by trying to figure out as much as possible from the information provided about the murderer, and on the other, by the various chemical interactions among the police characters and between the police and various witnesses, suspects, and other members of the public.
In the end, there is no intricate plot at work here. The killer did what he did for certain reasons, which McBain has him explain after capture (ostensibly for the police record, but more to satisfy the audience's curiosity, I suspect).
There may be more such listening opportunities in the future. We'll see.
Cheers...
The book I settled on was Fiddlers, by the late Ed McBain. It's one of his "87th Precinct" stories, and the audio version occupies five CDs.
The story falls squarely into the "police procedural" genre, in which the murderer and the cops operate in completely separate arcs until almost the very end. The reader's (listener's) interest is held, on the one hand, by trying to figure out as much as possible from the information provided about the murderer, and on the other, by the various chemical interactions among the police characters and between the police and various witnesses, suspects, and other members of the public.
In the end, there is no intricate plot at work here. The killer did what he did for certain reasons, which McBain has him explain after capture (ostensibly for the police record, but more to satisfy the audience's curiosity, I suspect).
There may be more such listening opportunities in the future. We'll see.
Cheers...
