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

Authors:Fanny Burney, Peter Sabor, Geoffrey Sill,
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: literary, texts, broadview, hater, woman, witlings
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 2002-09-19
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1551113783
ISBN-13: 9781551113784

This Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney’s linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a "femme savante" whose lineage may be traced back to Molière; they both centre on the misfortunes of the "elle" figure, the dispossessed heiress and wife who appears frequently in Burney’s fiction; and they both criticize a culture of misogyny that breeds suspicion and resentment. The Witlings, lighter and more comic, derives from late seventeenth-century conventions; The Woman-Hater, more melodramatic, both expresses and warns against the excessive sensibility o