Tag Team of One Makes Winning Combination
If schizophrenia is not merely talking to yourself but answering, what is it when a famous novelist partners up with his own nom de plume?
Evan Hunter wrote some popular novels around broad social themes like juvenile delinquency, homophobia, and racism. Ed McBain wrote the famous 87th Precinct crime novels and countless other mysteries. Candyland brings the pair together, for the first and only time.
It is a nifty idea for a novel which delivers on the page, Hunter’s faculty for writing in sensational, pinpoint detail about a particular human ill developing naturally into McBain covering its criminal aftermath. As a bonus, you get a suspenseful underlying meta-mystery of how and/or if these two plot threads will come together in the end.
