Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts
by:
Ed McBain (author)
Alan Sklar (author)
Evan Hunter (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780792724704 (0792724704)
Publisher: Sound Library
Edition language: English
This is a book in two parts with two authors. The first part by Evan Hunter is awful and I wouldn't read another Evan Hunter novel. Ben Thorpe, a traveling architect, is a psychotic/neurotic (not sure which one) who is a raving sex fiend. In every city he travels to, he has a girl or two (or thre...
Evan Hunter (The Blackboard Jungle) and Ed McBain (The 87th Precinct police procedurals) are one and the same, so it’s perhaps unusual that the two would collaborate on this compulsive novel of obsession. Writing as Hunter (his real name) the first part follows Benjamin Thorpe, a successful Lo...