87th Precinct Series

So Long as You Both Shall Live

The victim had a knife in her chest, and the husband didn't even try to disguise the fact that he was glad. From the very beginning, Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct is sure that someone was hired to make the killing look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets start to spill out of the closet and Carella and Bert Kling find themselves entering the city's sexual underground to discover the truth.

'Til Death

by Ed McBain

Published December 1964

The groom in question is Tommy Giordano - and he's about to marry Steve Carella's sister, Angela. So the wedding party suddenly becomes a deadly game of hide-and-seek for Steve and the boys of the 87th Precinct. Tommy is "it" and Steve has only a few hours to find a killer and prevent Tommy from being tagged out for good. But how do you find a murderer with hundreds of wedding guests to choose from? Is it Tommy's best man, who would collect everything the groom owns if the killer finds his mark? Or Ben Darcy, who is still madly in love with the bride and would do anything to get her back? Or what about the crazy ex-GI who swore he'd get revenge against Tommy? Carella has to work fast, or someone is going to make Angela a widow on her wedding day...

Long Time No See

by Ed McBain

Published June 1977

Hail, Hail Gang's All Here

by Ed McBain

Published 24 July 2012

Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!

by Ed McBain

Published 1 June 1972

-- In Warner Books mass market editions, McBain's titles have over 277,000 copies in print in the last four years alone.
-- Two of the author's most recent 87th Precinct novels, The Last Dance (Simon & Schuster hardcover, 1/00) and The Big Bad City (Simon & Schuster hardcover, 1/99), were New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
-- The six titles in the Warner Books Ed McBain re-release program will capitalize on the publication of his latest 87th Precinct novels: The Last Dance (Simon & Schuster hardcover, 1/00), Cop Hater (Pocket Books paperback, 12/99), and The Big Bad City (Pocket Books paperback, 11/99). Warner began its McBain re-release program in 12/99 with Fuzz, Jigsaw, and Shotgun.
-- Ed McBain is one of the most illustrious names in crime fiction: He holds the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, his novel Ice (Warner, 1996) was named one of the top ten crime novels of all time by Newsweek, and several of his 87th Precinct novels have been national bestsellers.
-- Hollywood loves Ed McBain, as demonstrated by the highly-rated NBC television series based on the 87th Precinct novels, and the major motion picture adaptation of Fuzz, starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Yul Brynner.
-- McBain, under the name of Evan Hunter, also wrote the seminal troubled youth novel The Blackboard Jungle, as well as the screenplay to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.-- Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! The night shift has a murdered go-go dancer, a firebombed church in the ghetto, and a house full of ghosts. The day shift has a naked hippie lying smashed on the sidewalk, two murderous armed robbers in Halloween masks, and a man beaten senseless by four guyswielding sawed-off broom handles. It may be a day in the life of the 87th Precinct, but for one cop, it could just be his last.

Three Great Novels

by Ed McBain

Published 5 December 2002

LULLABY At New Year, a sinister song of death and destruction echoes through the 87th Precinct, and it isn't Auld Lang Syne...VESPERS The cops of the 87th Precinct must cast the first stone in the bizarre case of a murdered priest - and a parish torn apart by the deadliest of sins. WIDOWS It's summer in the city, and the brutal slaying of a lawyer and his mistress is heating up the 87th Precinct.

87th Precinct Collection Pack

by Ed McBain

Published 24 February 2011