Long Time No See is a mystery novel in the 87th Precinct series by author Ed McBain.
When a blind couple is murdered, Steve Carella’s only clue is the 10-year dream of one of the victims. This dream will lead him to a murderer whose secret is worth killing.
Ed McBain set the standard for police procedures with his 87th Precinct series. Every police procedure written since Cop Hater hit shelves in 1956 is thanks to McBain’s existence.

Few authors (if any) match McBain’s total output of more than 120 novels. And if they do (and even if they don’t), I doubt they’ve come close to his qualities.

No one has yet been able to imitate, let alone master McBain’s style. He is a blacksmith of the highest level. No one has ever been able to craft narratives as fluently as his. No one has been able to seamlessly integrate city or weather descriptions like McBain. No one has ever been able to insert subplots into a story so subtly that they slip by almost unnoticed, yet still be noted.

When James Harris left the army after a stint in Vietnam, he had been blinded and was suffering from serious psychological problems. Ten years later, he’s living on his disability pension, on the small amount of money his wife makes, and on the pan-handling he does every day on the streets of Isola. Then, one cold winter evening, he and his seeing-eye dog, Stanley are making their way home when someone–a lunatic, perhaps?–chloroforms Stanley, then slashes Harris’s throat and leaves him bleeding to death on the street.

Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct lands the case and begins the job of trying to determine who might have wanted the blind man dead. He and Detective Meyer Meyer interview Harris’s widow, who is also blind, but she appears to have no information that might be of any help.

Later, Carella and Meyer return to the Harris apartment to escort Mrs. Harris to the morgue so that she can officially identify her husband’s body. But they now discover Mrs. Harris dead, also with her throat slashed, and someone has tossed the apartment, obviously looking for something.

The detectives begin digging into the relative pasts of both Mr. and Mrs. Harris in the hope of finding something that might shed some light on their murders. They turn up some interesting background on each of the victims and some potential suspects, but the deeper they dig into the case, the more confusing–and hopeless–it seems to become.

• Long Time No See

• An 87th Precinct Mystery, Book 32
• By: Ed McBain

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