DescriptionThe latest novel in the 87th Precinct series, featuring Detective Steve Carella and "Fat" Ollie Weekes.
DescriptionGloria Stanford was very sexy and rich. In an apparently motiveless murder she's found in her apartment, shot twice in the heart, and very dead. When detective Steve Crellar starts receiving cryptic notes he realises this is no ordinary homicide. It quickly emerges that the Deaf Man is back. Long thought dead, the notorious killer has acquired a new morbid fascination with the works of Shakespeare. The question is: What is he after?
DescriptionThe hanging death of a nondescript old man was nothing much, especially not in this city, where everything has its price and anything can be done. And it was nothing new to the detectives of the 87th Precinct, who have seen pretty much everything. But everyone has a story, and this nondescript old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes detectives Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through the city's seedy strip clubs and to the glitzy theater district. That's where they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug and a killer who stays until the last dance. The Last Dance is the 50th novel in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series.
DescriptionIn this 87th Precinct thriller, Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood. Foul play takes another form when an old nemesis, the Dead Man, taunts Carella and the 87 with riddling clues for solving a crime, or crimes, not yet committed. Given what he's deduced from the prankish perpetrator, Carella strongly suspects the crime will take place during a free rock and rap concert scheduled to take place in the city's largest park. As Carella tries desperately to second guess him, the Dead Man meticulously puts together a plan to carry off a multi-million dollar coup. Soon Carella finds himself racing against time in a game of wits that could leave the city reeling under an onslaught of dirty tricks from one of the underworld's masters of criminal mischief.
DescriptionIt 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. The stage is set for her to launch her debut album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht in the heart of the city. But halfway through her performance, masked men drag Tamar off the stage and into a waiting speedboat, while the partygoers look on helplessly. Detective Steve Carella is just showing up for the graveyard shift when news of the kidnapping comes in. Working disjointedly with a Joint Task Force that calls itself "The Squad, " Carella and the men and women of the Eight-Seven must find Tamar before time, or indeed her very life, runs out. In this brilliant look at the music industry, Ed McBain once again combines his mastery of form with the fast-paced dialogue and intricate plotting that have become his signature.
DescriptionEd McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime, if only they can figure out what he means. The 87…
DescriptionFrom the nationally best-selling author of Vespers and Widows comes a masterfully plotted, razor-sharp suspense novel. Detective Steve Carella is faced with a wealthy blonde sporting a beautiful body and two attempts on her life. Her stockbroker husband has hired protection for her, but nothing is as it seems in this thriller.
DescriptionIt 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 town after a large stash of money, and no one is intere…
DescriptionMurders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well-known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes…
