The House That Jack Built: A Matthew Hope Novel

Rating:
Summary: Another great Matthew Hope Thriller
Review: Ed McBain has a wonderful way of weaving a thriller around a nursery ryme. Each chapter moving along the poem and introducing the characters. It doesn't matter that the cow with the crumpled horn is an elderly woman' this adaptation of the ryme is brilliant. The story begins with Matthew Hope being hired to represented a farmer (who grew the corn) accused of murdering his brother. As always Matthew is convinced his client is innocent and sets out (with the help of PI Warren Chambers) to prove it. As is often the case there are a number of little side plots which mostly come together to solve the crime.

Rating:
Summary: Another great Matthew Hope Thriller
Review: Ed McBain has a wonderful way of weaving a thriller around a nursery ryme. Each chapter moving along the poem and introducing the characters. It doesn't matter that the cow with the crumpled horn is an elderly woman' this adaptation of the ryme is brilliant. The story begins with Matthew Hope being hired to represented a farmer (who grew the corn) accused of murdering his brother. As always Matthew is convinced his client is innocent and sets out (with the help of PI Warren Chambers) to prove it. As is often the case there are a number of little side plots which mostly come together to solve the crime.