{"id":510,"date":"2003-01-30T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-510.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"ed-mcbain-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/01\/30\/ed-mcbain-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed McBain &#8211; <i>Ghosts<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmastime at the 87th Precinct, and Detective Steve Carella catches a double murder.  One of the vicitms is a bestselling writer of ghost stories, and his girlfriend is a medium.  When she starts making spooky predictions, Carella isn&#8217;t sure if she&#8217;s faking or for real.  But he&#8217;s going to find out&#8230;  It was a bit strange to see a supernatural element in the normally gritty world of the 87th Precinct, but McBain uses it to good effect, producing another tense mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmastime at the 87th Precinct, and Detective Steve Carella catches a double murder. One of the vicitms is a bestselling writer of ghost stories, and his girlfriend is a medium. When she starts making spooky predictions, Carella isn&#8217;t sure if she&#8217;s faking or for real. But he&#8217;s going to find out&#8230; It was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}