Nocturne ( #48) - Ed McBain

Written by Ed McBain
Format: MP3

I say this is unabridged, my partner says it’s abridged. It runs 5 hours 48 minutes which is fairly typical of a 87th Precinct book. The narrator may be Ed McBain, listen carefully to the very begging of the recording and it does sound like he gets credit for the narration. Sorry about the quality, love to see something better.

Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspapers around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her body and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest. Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless night in the city. For detectives Carella and Hawes, no murder is ever routine, and while this one looks at first like a robbery, the evidence doesn’t add up. And when Carella and Hawes interview Svetlana’s hard-edged, lounge-singing granddaughter - a woman accompanied by two armed bodyguards - they start looking for a missing envelope full of money and for a killer who had more than robbery on his mind.