by Ed McBain · OXFORD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194792301
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«King's Ransom» is the crime novel by Ed McBain published by Oxford University Press in the Oxford Bookworms Library collection (level 5), in paperback.
The missing boy is Jeffry Reynolds, son of a millionaire's chauffeur; the kidnappers mistake him for the magnate's son and demand $500,000. The 87th Precinct police must find the child before the ransom goes wrong.
The edition has 112 pages and corresponds to level 5 of Oxford Bookworms Library, with 1800 vocabulary words. The original work, from 1959, is the tenth installment of the 87th Precinct series.
For students of English as a foreign language, at CEFR level B2, looking for a graded mystery crime reading.
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.
