Beauty and the Beast

Name: Beauty and the Beast
ISBN: 9780552122030

Evan Hunter

235 pages · about 4 hours
First published 1971
16 editions

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1 About this book

When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs."

Trials (Murder)
Mystery
Matthew Hope
Lawyers
Florida

2 About Evan Hunter

1926–2005

Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre.

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