| Mary, Mary Contributor(s): Hunter, Evan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0446517380 ISBN-13: 9780446517386 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1993 Annotation: With his sizzling dialogue and drop-dead surprises, Ed McBain has elevated the crime novel into fine art. Mary, Mary is vintage McBain. It is Christmas in Florida. The decorations are only slightly more false than the cheer, and a trial is going on - the kind of trial that grabs headlines and makes people wonder what kind of person could possibly represent the defendant. For in this case, the accused Mary Barton, is charged with the monstrous murder of three innocent young girls. Matthew Hope, the defense attorney who only represents people he believes innocent, believes the eccentric hard-talking Mary Barton would never harm a soul. So does the beautiful, genteel Englishwoman whose life Mary touched years before and who is now footing the bill for her defense. All the money in the world can't buy Matthew Hope a case. As the trial progresses, eyewitnesses place Mary with the victims; one witness even claims to have seen Mary burying the bodies. The evidence for a conviction is overwhelming, and Mary, stubbornly contrary, seems incapable of helping her own case. Could Mary truly be a homicidal maniac? Or could the witnesses be mistaken? Caught up in an illicit love affair with a sexy prosecutor, scrambling to put up some kind of a defense, Hope is running out of tricks. When the real story of Mary Barton surfaces, defense attorney Matthew Hope will discover just how much he has to lose...and unearth a few long-buried secrets that refuse to die. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92050569 |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 372 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Florida criminal attorney Matthew Hope never takes a case unless he is personally convinced of the innocence of the client. And retired schoolteacher Mary Barton--known to her neighbors as Mary, Mary, quite contrary--isn't the easiest of women to believe in. McBain's fabulously popular Matthew Hope series takes another twisted turn into hideous mutilation and murder. |