Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, jeopardy, alice
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-12-21
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0743262506
ISBN-13: 9780743262507

"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 a single home -- or collect any insurance money -- after her husband’s fatal boating accident. Her daughter and son’s kidnappers demand $250,000, the exact amount she’s supposed to receive from the insurance company. To complicate matters, her housekeeper has contacted the police -- a glaring error in judgment that puts a spotlight on the crime, the childr

Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: widows
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-10-26
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0743470761
ISBN-13: 9780743470766

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 sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared Susan Brauer? The stack of unsigned erotic letters in her possession was the first clue. Then the murder of Susan’s lover, a married lawyer in his sixties, leads the cops of the 87th to the women left behind: the lawyer’s wife, his ex, his daughters. And for Detective Carella, his own father’s senseless death in a bakery holdup sea

Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: mysteries, precinct, 87th, city
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0671025694
ISBN-13: 9780671025694

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 splashed across the front page. She was found sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the police station. Detectives Carella and Brown soon discover the girl has a most unusual past. Meanwhile, the late-night news tracks the exploits of The Cookie Boy, a professional thief who leaves his calling card -- a box of chocolate chip cookies -- at the scene

Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: mysteries, precinct, 87th, hater, cop
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0671775472
ISBN-13: 9780671775476

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 finest, one by one. The how of the killings is obvious: three .45 shots from the dark add up to one, two, three very dead detectives. The why and the who are the Precinct’s headaches now. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third dete

Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: precinct, 87th, novel, dance, last
Published: 2000-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0743200470
ISBN-13: 9780743200479

Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: money, precinct, novel, 87th
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-10-19
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0743217675
ISBN-13: 9780743217675

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 town after a large stash of money, and no one is interested in sharing. The detectives at the 87th are already busy for the holidays. Steve Carella and Fat Ollie Weeks catch the squeal when the lions in the city zoo get an unauthorized feeding of a young woman’s body. And then there’s a trash can stuffed with a book salesman carrying a P-38 Walther and a wad of big bills. The bad