Ed McBain’s famously long-running 87th precinct series comes to a rousing close with this posthumously published police procedural. The cops at the 87th struggle to stem the rapidly growing body count of a serial killer who shoo...

He appeared to be a decent, upright, honest citizen.... And yet appearances can be more than deceiving in the world of blackmail and extortion. The shocking gangland-style murder of known blackmailer Sy Kramer begs the question: whic...

Most suicides don't realize the headaches they cause.... Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man's body was found in a tenement basement. The rope around his neck suggested a clear case of suicide -- until the ...

In this great novel set in and around a NYC police stationhouse, Steve Carella finds how two brutal murder cases converge through coincidence in a startling and savage conclusion.

This collection of 25 short crime-fiction stories represents the best of Ed McBain--before he was Ed McBain. Consisting entirely of works written between 1952 and 1957, almost all of which were published in the magazine Manhunt, LEARN...

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: the face of a dead girl is spla...

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 the body of his beautiful wife, Sara...

The detectives at the 87th Precinct have twelve hours to find out to whom the mysterious crank letter writer was referring when he wrote ""I will kill the lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it."" Reissu...

The only person Detective Bert Kling cares about in this world is his fiancee, Claire Townsend. And when her body is found slain at the infamous "bookstore massacre," Bert and every detective in the precinct is determined to...

Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, and the folks of the 87th Precinct search for a black-cloaked killer with a penchant for leaving blood-red severed hands all over the city. By the author of Kiss. Reissue.

Not long after the brutal slaying of his sexy blond mistress, twice-married lawyer Arthur Schumaker is gunned down in the heart of the 87th Precinct, leaving behind dark secrets and unanswered questions. "A brilliant job."--...

Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, and the boys of the 87th Precinct know where, when, and how George Lasser died, but they don't have a clue as to who had "given him the ax." And when the mad marauder strikes again, it's time to ...

A crime novel in which the brutal murder of an extraordinary beautiful woman heralds the return of Matthew Hope to investigate.

The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things can always get hotter. With nearly half the squadroom on vacation, Detectives Carella and Hawes look into what appears to be an ordinary w...

Private detective Otto Samalson sees the tail—a black Toronado he can't shake. One dark window rolls down, exposing the barrel of a gun, and the detective is dead.Otto had already known his days were numbered and said as much to his...

When a Man's Partner is Killed,He's Supposed to Do Something About It. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in th...

Stan Gifford was America's most beloved comedian. It showed in the ratings--40 million people watched the ever-smiling comedian crack his jokes. And those same 80 million eyes saw him die on camera. It looked like part of the act, but...

As Roger Broome tries to muster the courage to visit the 87th Precinct to talk about Molly, the woman he had met in a bar and took home, but Amelia, a pretty Spanish girl, leads him to forget his intentions, and with his every h...

Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snaean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal—until Jack's found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times. The ba...

The men and women of the 87th Precinct have their professional skills tested to the limit when several young women are raped multiple times by the same man and a serial killer who hangs his victims stalks the streets of the city...

A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Carlton Markham,...

When Victoria Miller and her backing band, Wheat, broke out with a string of gold records in the sixties, the sultry chanteuse seemed shy of crowds, refusing to perform in public. Years after her last success, Victoria makes her st...

Sarah Whittaker is a green-eyed beauty with a love for Danny Kaye and white knights. Lawyer Matthew Hope can see all this clearly, despite the fact that whenever they meet the two are under constant surveillance by the mental institut...

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 he wakes up beside a beautiful nig...

The morning after Jonathan Parrish's fortieth birthday party, the guest of honor is found lying dead in a pool of his own blood. Police arrive at the scene to find his older brother, Ralph, covered in red and clutching the murder w...

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 collection of short stories, bestselling au...

When three Vietnamese immigrants are found murdered and savagely mutilated in Calusa, Florida, police finger wealthy landowner Stephen Leeds as the prime suspect. The now-deceased trio had recently been acquitted of raping Leeds's wif...

Hours before his sister's wedding, Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct learns that a killer is stalking the groom, and in order to learn the would-be murderer's identity, Steve must search through hundreds of wedding guests. Reis...

Steve Carella does not fit the picture of a big city detective. Well mannered and the consummate professional, he lacks the rough-hewn edges of the men who devote their lives to fighting crime on the streets. But there is one thing th...

When a calypso singer and a prostitute are greased with the same .38, 87th Precinct cops Carella and Meyer go underground. Their search for the cold-blooded killer takes them into the sleazy underworld of pimps, hookers and pushers--a...