{"id":4485,"date":"2008-06-26T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:09:44","slug":"book-report-bread-by-ed-mcbain-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/book-report-bread-by-ed-mcbain-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Bread by Ed McBain (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I passed up a couple of copies of this at the St. Charles Book Fair because I knew I had a copy of it at home.  The copy I have is an ex-library copy, so because I wasn&#8217;t that attentive, I passed up a chance to upgrade.  One of these days, I should really add my to-read shelves to my database and run a comprehensive report before I go so I know what to look for and what to buy.  But that&#8217;s more organized than I pretend to be.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a 1974 87th precinct book, which means you&#8217;ll not find it as easily in the wild (St. Charles Book Fair notwithstanding) as you&#8217;ll find the 80s-00s books, so I&#8217;m glad I got it regardless of the edition.  One finds that McBain&#8217;s quality remained pretty steady throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>This book deals with an arson fire that destroys a shipment of toys, putting a company&#8217;s owner in a bind.  Investigating leads the 87th Squad to find some dubious investment schemes and a series of related murders that indicate something more than toy selling was going on.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good book, and it&#8217;s dated a bit.  I mean, pushers want bread, dig?  But still a worthy read.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0446604259&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I passed up a couple of copies of this at the St. Charles Book Fair because I knew I had a copy of it at home. The copy I have is an ex-library copy, so because I wasn&#8217;t that attentive, I passed up a chance to upgrade. One of these days, I should really add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}