So this person was going on about how much she loves the novels of Ed McBain. I had never read him so I decided to check him out at the library. I guess his genre would be called police procedurals. The book I got was The Pusher which was published in the 1950s which gave me pause. Would this book be too dated to appeal 50 years later? Surprisingly it wasn't.
It's a story of the 87th precinct, one of a long series of stories set there. Lieutenant Pete Byrnes & Detective Steve Carella have to investigate the apparent suicide by hanging of the local pusher. But how can it be death by hanging when the autopsy shows he actually died of an overdose of heroin? And what are these threatening calls Byrnes is getting about his own teenage son?
It's an interesting story and still holds up well even after all these years.
Review on James Reasoner's Rough Edges blog: http://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2015/11/forgotten-books-pusher-ed-mcbain-evan.html.
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