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"I will kill the lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it?" — That's what the letter read. — Was she that new hooker in town, the one who let them rape her like a lady? Or Lady Jay Astor, the sensual, bawdy songstress, who belted out the porno in extreme good taste? Or Mrs. Bannister, a socialite mother who kept the purse strings too tight? Twelve hours to find a crank or stop a killer. And there would be no second chance for "the Lady" if the boys of the 87th didn't guess right.
Author
"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.
