A review by guiltyfeat
The Empty Hours by Ed McBain

4.0

Three short stories, each different. I had no idea when I began this project of reading the 87th Precinct books in order, just how Jewish they were going to be. The middle story in this collection is about the murder of a Conservative Rabbi on the first night of Pesach. It's about what it means to be a Jew, antisemitism and the tension between traditional orthodoxy and conservatism. All that in a 60 page whodunnit. Remarkable.