An assistant district attorney launches a one-man crusade against the Mafia in this legal thriller from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series. The call comes from Narcotics, Manhattan S
A nanny will go to any length to save a kidnapped Mafia prince in this madcap mobster farce by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series. Her name is Nanny, and she’s the most cutthroat wom
From the internationally admired creator of the 87th Precinct series come these tales featuring policemen and their work and displaying Ed McBain’s inimitable talents in shorter form.In this collectio
A literary agent finds his partner shot to death, his office safe wide open and a valuable contract missing. But was he killed for the contract, for his ruthless business practices, or for his roving
He’d been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man’s life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when
“You’ll have to speak a little louder,” the voice said. “I’m a little hard of hearing.”Between a highly successful cat burglar and a hippie crucifixion, the 87th Precinct definitely doesn’t need the D
Finding a dead body was not unusual for an autumn night in the 87th Precinct. But this young woman’s body was naked—and potentially related to the series of odd missives received at the station house.
An 87th Precinct novel. Blackmail you do alone; the more people who know, the more ways you've got to split. Sky Kramer was a loner, and business was good - until a .300 Savage closed his account. The
"There are crazy people all over, you know that, don't you?"Spring was intoxicating the city air, but the harassing anonymous telephone calls planting seeds of fear around town were no April Fool's jo
A bitterly cold night offers up a body turned blue — not frozen, but swinging from a rope in a dank basement. The dead teen seems like a clear case of suicide, but Detective Steve Carella and Lieutena
Shot twice. Plummeted into cardiac arrest. Pulled from the depths of a nasty coma. Attorney Matthew Hope’s had a rough few months. So when a slightly cross-eyed beauty brings him a cushy copyright inf
What could be easier? He had a confessed killer, clear fingerprints, and a witness. Everything was sewed up tight. Or was it Detective Steve Carella could not forget Gerald Fletcher standing beside th
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
Outside the 87th Precinct a stranger stands in the falling snow. He knows he should go in and tell a policeman about what happened the night before, about Molly. Every second that he hesitates takes h
Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with th
THE HEROES OF THE CITY'S STREETS BECOME THE HUNTED -- IN THIS CRIME FICTION CLASSIC ED MCBAIN'S FIRST 87th PRECINCT NOVEL Swift, silent, and deadly -- someone is knocking off the 87th Precinct's fi
All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea... But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul
It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso is young and beautiful, with the body and voice of an angel, and the stage is set for her to launch her debut album, Bande
The priest lay on the bloodstained stones, his life drained from the wounds in his back....In a walled garden surrounded by skyscrapers, Father Michael Birney met an unholy end, stabbed by an assaila
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before that time. All but five of them were first published in th
THE CELEBRATED FIFTIETH NOVEL OF THE 87TH PRECINCTThe hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct is nothing much in this city, especi
Ed McBain’s last installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn’t fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics s
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first publish
"I have your children. Don't call the police, or they'll die."It's a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn't managed to sell
I'm a Fathead, Men!I Am the Deaf Man!Unscrambling the cryptic messages -- anagrams, Detective Carella called them -- delivered to the 87th Precinct confirmed that the master criminal who has eluded t
The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead,her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What
The squadroom at 5:15 on New Year's morning looked much as it did on any other day...But an exceptionally heinous crime was already sending a wave of outrage through even the veteran cops of the 87th
A punk wielding a spray can is no match for a killer armed with a gun -- and a deadly aim to knock off the city's graffiti artists. One by one, the young scribblers are found murdered, maliciously co
It all got terribly confusing when the Deaf Man put in an appearance.... ...and the criminal mastermind is making his presence known by the dead bodies that are turning up around Isola. Then there ar
It is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and an equally shady pair of Secret Service agents are in
In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind. Take this week's tabloids
Jill Lawton wants Matthew Hope to find her husband, Jack. Her tale is commonplace: a middle-aged husband goes north to look for work, finds another woman, doesn't come back. The embittered wife wants
Ben Smoke is an ex-cop, a tough-guy bachelor who never had a case he couldn't crack--that is, until someone starts snatching bodies from a funeral home. This is the kind of challenge Smoke loves--only
In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for the 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful--es
What's cuddly, cute, and the object of a high-stakes court battle? It's Gladly, a cross-eyed teddy bear: the brainchild of slightly cross-eyed beauty Lainie Commins, Matthew Hope's client and the lit
Alex Hardy is a rising young New York burglar. When he goes on a jewellery heist with two partners - a one-legged whore and a veteran break-in artist - he finds himself falling in love with a beautif
