There Was A Little Girl By Ed McBain

1994 Hardcover

Dust Jacket

Time Warner

Very Good Condition

Mystery Novel

There Was a Little Girl is a 1994 mystery novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) and the 11th book in the Matthew Hope series, featuring attorney Matthew Hope, who is in a coma after being shot, while his friends investigate his last case involving a small circus, a three-foot-tall woman, and a web of secrets, blackmail, and murder. The title refers to the dead circus star, slang for cocaine, or potentially lesbian child abuse, with the plot following Hope's friends as they retrace his steps through a seedy underworld.