Publisher's Synopsis
"Ed McBain is a master." NEWSWEEK "McBain is so good he ought to be arrested." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "A virtuoso." THE GUARDIAN In the city of Isola, a man with no enemies is found hanging in what appears to be a suicide. But Lieutenant Carella and his colleagues in the 87th Precinct soon discover that, drugged and unconscious, he could not possibly have hanged himself. They are dealing with murder. The investigation takes them into the politics and passions of a musical in preparation. Or rather two: one that happened half a century ago and one that is happening now...
