Fat Ollie's Book

A Novel of the 87th Precinct

De: Ed McBain

Narrado por: Ron McLarty

All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea...

But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul mouth and short temper than his way with words, Detective Weeks has written a novel. But just as Isola is rocked by the murder of a mayoral candidate, the only copy of Ollie's manuscript is stolen -- and an all-too-real adventure begins as a thief follows Ollie's fictional blueprint to find a $2 million cache of nonexistent diamonds. Now, the 87th Precinct races to bring poetic justice to a cold-blooded assassin -- and someone's about to add another chapter to the colorful career of Ollie Weeks, a cop who's never played by the book....©2003 HUI Corp., All Rights Reserved; (P)2003 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved, AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Reader 6 stars. Plot 2 stars.

The writing is clever, with one very glaring exception: The method by which the cops are led to the murderer is absolutely sophmoric. It spoils the plot, but the vocal stylings of the reader (Ron McLarty) are brilliant and make it a very entertaining listen overall.

I love the 87th precint novels.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I am a mystery story lover. I like the characters and how they are developed.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Ollie himself. He is real if not always the ideal.

Did Ron McLarty do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

yes. Lots of personality.

Did Fat Ollie's Book inspire you to do anything?

I want to listen to all in the series.

Murder solved

Good book great characters, shows you how police solve a mystery one of more than 50 , penned by Ed McBain.

A must read for any and all aspiring writers

This is one of the funniest books. It is a detective novel and meant to be a detective novel but unlike other such novels, Detective Ollie has decided to write a book and attempts to fictionalize the cases he is working on until a major part of the manuscript is stolen and causes all kinds of strange turns in the plot. I couldn't stop laughing all the way through the book.

Leave it Lay.

Fat Ollie was a great minor character, but never grew in this novel about him. The recording is so bad, I threw the CD's away, assuming my car radio was skipping around. It wasn't. That's the way it was written, or recorded, skipping from one scene to another without any reason and so often I cound't tell you now what happened, or who it happened to. Death accompanies all murder mystery, but this novel died before it got to paper. Leave it lay.