Jack and the Beanstalk - Hardcover

McBain, Ed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030621976 ISBN 13: 9780030621970

Publisher: Henry Holt, 1984

Synopsis

After making a down-payment on a derelict snapbean farm and promising the remaining thirty-six thousand dollars in cash, twenty-year-old Jack McKinney is found dead, his plush condo ransacked, and Attorney Matthew Hope has to find the money and the murderer

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0030621976
• ISBN 13: 9780030621970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215