by Ed McBain, Rosalie Kerr · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230711
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«King's Ransom» is the crime novel by Ed McBain adapted by Rosalie Kerr, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (112 pages, in English).
In Smoke Rise, an eight-year-old boy, Jeffry Reynolds, son of Douglas King's chauffeur, is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand half a million dollars, but they have taken the wrong child, and the 87th Precinct police must solve the case before it is too late.
Graded reader from the Oxford Bookworms Library, level 5 (1,800 words), tenth installment of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series; adaptation of the original 1959 novel.
Students of English as a foreign language and young readers; recommended from age 17.
Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre.
