Doll

by Ed McBain

1981

Status

Checked out

Publication

Ballantine Books (1981)

Description

A blonde woman, a living doll, is found slashed to death. Steve Carella wants Bert King on the case, a belligerent cop. When he goes missing, presumed dead, the officers of the 87th Precinct go all out to find the truth.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bekkil1977

A beautiful model is murdered while her 5 year old daughter plays next door in her room with her doll. Carella figures out who the killer is and goes to make an arrest--by himself. He is overpowered and held hostage. The rest of the 87th has to try to find him before they kill him. Very good stuff.

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LibraryThing member asxz

Short and brutal. Poor old Steve Carella gets the crap kicked out of him yet again and this time he's even turned into a heroin addict. I reckon he must be almost impossible to insure. Poor old Bert Kling is still grieving the death of his fiancée several books back, but he may have reached BA

turning point here.

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LibraryThing member Stahl-Ricco

“In the bedroom next door, her mother was being murdered.”

Then, investigating that murder, Steve Carella gets taken hostage, and it’s set up to appear that he’s dead (poor Teddy…). And Bert Kling is still torn up about his girlfriend's, Claire Townsend, death (in book #14). And now

Carella's too. It's a really good story, tense and violent. My only problem is - how many times is poor Carella going to be knocked out in this series? It seems like he's definitely taken a blow or two in at least half of the twenty so far! C'mon - give the poor guy a break!

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