38: Goldilocks, 1978. by Ed McBain* (1926–2005)
He wrote so many, many books—
Oh, yes, it’s quite a pile.
And if you stacked them, first to last,
They’d probably reach a mile.
His first was 1952;
His last, 2005.
That’s not such bad production, eh?
(For one who is alive.)
And Goldilocks—the first he
wrote
With fairy tales in mind.
They featured lawyer Matthew Hope—
The best guy you could find!
He wrote some other Hope books, too
The last in ’98.
And I read all of them (of course!)
And loved them—no debate.
I read a lot of others, too,
But, oh, he wrote with speed!
In fact he cranked them out too fast
For dudes like me to read!
*born Salvatore Albert Lombino; also wrote under the pen name Evan
Hunter
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