Book 22

Fuzz

by Ed McBain

Published 7 August 1970
The 87th Precinct is up against the Deaf Man, master criminal, and Detective Carella's own Moriarty. With the murders of two prominent citizens to his credit, the Deaf Man is about to reveal his pice de resistance of extortion and homicide. Fuzz was the basis of a major motion...Read more

Book 55

Fiddlers

by Ed McBain

Published 29 August 2005
It started with the blind violinist - shot twice through the head at point-blank range in the alley outside his dingy restaurant. But it's only when the omelette lady gets shot with the same gun in the same way twenty-four hours later that the police really start to take...Read more

Widows

by Ed McBain

Published 25 February 1991

Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

by Ed McBain

Published 2 September 1975
All over town, phones were ringing. Shopkeepers and merchants were being threatened by anonymous cranks. And the threats were getting more and more serious. When the angry victims started yelling to the local cops for help, Steve Carella and the boys of the 87th Precinct didn't know what to...Read more

The Empty Hours

by Ed McBain

Published 4 January 1977
She was young, wealthy - and dead. Strangled to death in a slum apartment. All they had to go on was her name and some cancelled cheques. As Steve Carella said, 'Those cheques are the diary of her life. We'll find the answer there.' But how was he to...Read more

The Pusher

by Ed McBain

Published 25 June 1970
Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man's body is found in a tenement basement. The rope around his neck suggests a clear case of suicide - until the autopsy reveals he'd overdosed on heroin. He was a pusher, and now a thousand questions press...Read more

Shotgun

by Ed McBain

Published 1 August 1970
A psycho has butchered a nice young couple and he's loose somewhere in the 87th Precinct. He has a name, an address and an identity. Walter Damascus is a third-rate lothario who likes his women well off, well built and dead, along with their husbands. Sooner or later he...Read more

Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man

by Ed McBain

Published 5 February 1974

Fat Ollie's Book

by Ed McBain

Published 24 December 2002
Irritating though he was, Lester Henderson had it all when he strode up to rehearse his keynote address in the darkness of a downtown theatre. Widely tipped to be the next mayor and possessing a nice line in catalogue-casual daywear, Henderson stood four-square facing his glorious future. But five...Read more

The Frumious Bandersnatch

by Ed McBain

Published 23 December 2003
Diva disappeared...This was supposed to be the night that launched a new pop idol into the firmament. Tamar Valparaiso has it all: young and beautiful with the body and voice of an angel. And just as importantly she is going to hit all the right demographics. With a Mexican...Read more

Lady Killer

by Ed McBain

Published 3 September 1974
"I WILL KILL THE LADY TONIGHT AT 8. WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?" That's what the letter read. Was she that new hooker in town, the one who let her clients rape her like a lady? Or Lady Jay Astor, the sensual, bawdy songstress, who belted out the...Read more

The Last Dance

by Ed McBain

Published 17 November 1999
In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him hurt so bad he's an invalid his whole life? You want him...killed? Let me...Read more

Lullaby

by Ed McBain

Published 25 May 1989

The Big Bad City

by Ed McBain

Published 15 December 1998
There's the murdered woman whose outstanding physical characteristic is her breast implants. Which doesn't surprise anyone in a big bad city like Isola - until they find out that she's a nun . . .

There's the nagging problem of The Cookie Boy, a burglar with a...Read more

Kiss

by Ed McBain

Published 1 February 1992

Money, Money, Money

by Ed McBain

Published 28 August 2001
Cassandra Lee Ridley is an ex-air force pilot who now scrapes a living flying low-level contraband over the border to Mexico. But, Cassandra has a taste for the better things in life and when she gets offered a $200,000 contract to fly what she assumes are drugs, she takes...Read more

The Heckler

by Ed McBain

Published 25 June 1970

Poison

by Ed McBain

Published 1 May 1987
Detective Hal Willis is on a case with two dead men, a beautiful suspect and the risk of becoming her next victim.

Like Love

by Ed McBain

Published 13 August 1976

A classic 87th Precinct novel from "the undisputed master" (The Mirror)

A young girl jumps to her death. A salesman gets blown apart. Two semi-naked bodies are found dead on a bed with all the hallmarks of a love pact...

Spring really was here for the 87th Precinct.

Steve Carella and Cotton...

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Kiss Low Price

by Ed McBain

Published 19 February 2002