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Title: Fat Ollie's a Phat Read!
Review: Ed McBain moves the 87th precinct further into the "Pulp Fiction" and Elmore Leonard territory - everyone in the book gets into witty dialogue with offbeat, sexy, scenarios with some splashy violence. The drier, police procedural stuff is getting less and less. Here, Fat Ollie, is played for laughs while Steve Carella does the real investigating. I really like the continuity of the 87th and the books are very entertaining. It's hard to believe there are about 50 of them, I'll have to find #1 and see how how the late 1950s were portrayed. Looking forward to another next year, Ed?
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