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Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 47
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Romance and drama capture police detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th Precinct in McBain's Manhattan clone, Isola City. An actress in a play about an actress who gets stabbed is stabbed. Her superficial wound draws little blood but enough media attention, perhaps, to save the drama from the opening-night closing its director expects. The play is titled Romance, a subject very much the focus of Kling's personal life as he doggedly pursues another...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 54
Language
English
Description
The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the city's most accomplished criminals -- a thief known as the Deaf Man. Because he might be deaf. Or he might not. So little is known about the man who is harassing Detective Steve Carella with puzzling messages that it is hard to tell. But as soon as a pattern emerges, the detectives of the 87th are forced to hit the books and brush up on their Shakespeare -- because each new clue contains a line from one...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 52
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After finishing a murder investigation, Fat Ollie Weeks discovers that his car has been broken into and the manuscript for his new crime novel stolen, sending him on a mission of vengeance to catch the culprit
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 51
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 49
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A nun is murdered in New York City and an autopsy determines she had breast implants. Detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown discover that Sister Mary Vincent led a double life.
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 50
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
8) Nocturne
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 48
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspaper around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her bady and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 42
Language
English
Description
"Who butchered a troubled young priest in his own church? Did an overzealous gang of neighborhood Satanists have a hand in the the bloody business? Or were there even darker doings behind the ornate closed doors of St. Catherine's? In a parish torn by sin, violence, drugs, racial tension and poverty, the cops of the 87th Precinct must throw the first stone -- and hope it makes ripples in a bizarre and baffling case that will test their faith, their...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 31
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso was set to launch her debut album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht. But halfway through her performance, masked men dragged Tamar off the stage and took off, while the partygoers looked on helplessly.
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 55
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ed McBain's latest 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 sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog - these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face. But most serial...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby apartment in the 87th Precinct leads detectives Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks to the discovery of an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug, and a killer.
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 54
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Recovered from his wounds, the Deaf Man is bent on revenge and determined to rub the collective face of the 87th in the dust of his brilliance in McBain's latest zany romp.
17) Fat Ollie's book
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
After Fat Ollie Weeks arrests a corrupt book publisher, he tries his hand at writing his own crime novel. Just moments after Fat Ollie has finished his opus and is on his way to his agent, he catches a squeal -- a murder case in the 87th. After investigating the crime, he returns to his car to find it broken into and the manuscript -- his only copy -- gone.
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 52
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A city councilman, lester Henderson is murdered. Joined by Carella and Kling from the neighboring 87th Precinct, Ollie investigates the homicide with all the exquisite crudemess, insensitivity, and determination for which he is famous.