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...

Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line' by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a s...

87th Precinct Detective Steve Carella is faced with a wealthy and beautiful blond who's survived two attempts on her life. Her stockbroker husband has hired a private detective to protect her. But nothing is as it seems in this action...

Detective Steve Carella's sister is getting married but someone wants the groom dead, and Steve has just a few hours to locate the killer before his sister becomes a bride―and a widow―on the same day."Imagine your favorite La...

Forever' by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop-a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples commit suicide one right after the other, he suspects it isn't suicide, but murder. He mu...

Novellas from Transgressions by Ed McBain, Anne Perry and Donald E. Westlake“Merely Hate” by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the c...

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...

Everyone's favorite hit man meanders across the country in 'Keller's Adjustment' by Lawrence Block; a young and beautiful artist is first flattered, then terrified, by a new modeling contract in 'The Ransome Women' by John Farris; and...

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."--...

Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us 'Downtown' in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City.Meet Michael Barnes, a Flor...

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 ...

Eighty-six-year-old George Lasser was the superintendent of a building in the 87th Precinct until just recently. Unfortunately his tenure ended in the building's basement with a sharp, heavy blade of an ax in his head… There are no ...

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

A killer is out for blood, and it's up to Detective Steve Carella to bring him in — but a shocking surprise awaits when a survivor fingers the suspect in a lineup. "McBain has the ability to make every character believable—wh...

It’s bad enough when a warehouse goes up in flames, but when it leads to multiple murders and a slum redevelopment deal that has deadly ties running through the city’s underbelly, the 87th Precinct is back to work. “The 87th Pre...

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...

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 ...

When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to sort out who and why — before he finds himself on the wrong end of the killer’s .45. “McBain has the ability t...

When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it's up to Detective Steve Carella to sort out who and why―before he finds himself on the wrong end of the killer's .45."McBain has the ability to mak...

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...