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Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct faces the precinct's greatest foe, the Deaf Man, when the criminal returns to a life of crime in order to murder the city's graffiti artists

Een Amerikaanse rechercheur ziet een verband tussen de moorden op een jonge vrouw en een drugshandelaar.

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 sears through the intense summer heat -- and sends him on a fevered hunt for the one who made his mother a widow and shrouded his family in grief.

A comedian dies on national television in front of forty million viewers, and the detectives of the 87th Precinct must solve the puzzle of how he made someone mad enough to murder. "Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment." --Entertainment Weekly "McBain has the ability to make every character believable--which few writers these days can do." --Associated Press

This mugger is special. He preys on women, waiting in the darkness…then comes from behind, attacks them, and snatches their purses. He tells them not to scream and as they're on the ground, reeling with pain and fear, he bows and nonchalantly says, “Clifford thanks you, madam.” But when he puts one victim in the hospital and the next in the morgue, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are not amused and will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. Dashing young patrolman Bert Kling is always there to help a friend. And when a friend's sister-in-law is the mugger's murder victim, Bert's personal reasons to find the maniacal killer soon become a burning obsession…and it could easily get him killed. The second book in the 87th Precinct series, The Mugger is an Ed McBain classic, a nuanced portrayal of justice and vengeance hailed by the Daily Mirror as “a masterpiece of crime writing…and there's nobody who does it better.”

The third Matthew Hope mystery novel from the acclaimed author of the popular 87th Precinct series. What begins as an ordinary one-night-stand for attorney Matthew Hope turns into a deadly mystery when the woman--a 60's rock star trying for a comeback--is brutally murdered, and her daughter turns up missing.

By day the city works. By night it plays, and everyone is invited to the game: the rich the poor, the adventurous and the tame. Sometimes, the playground turns deadly. Sometimes, the homicide detectives from the 87th Precinct are invited, too... Sadie When She Died The victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carella is sure someone was hired to make the murder look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets begin to come out of the closet. Now happily married, Steve Carella and unhappily single Bert Kling are entering a city's sexual underground to find out which is more dangerous: a world where anything goes or a husband with secrets of his own. Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1477805613

Soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope has never been known for taking easy cases, and this is no exception. A mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida's steamy west coast, and the only person who doesn't have a motive is confessing--and insists that Hope defend him.

Someone killed Annie Boone, but was she an innocent victim or the target of a hit? As Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th precinct pick up the pieces of her interupted life, they move relentlessly closer to some answers yet farther from others. Struggling to find the weak link, the detectives find themselves facing a cold, hard truth they'd prefer not to know.

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 detective buys it. With one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city's underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head.... Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

At 22 Jason Trench was a lieutenant commander in the US Navy and determined to defeat international communism. For it was Cuba that presented such an insult to national pride, and it was his attempt to rid America of Castro's country that he mobilized his army of 42 men.

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes. Called "Report to the Commissioner," it follows a cunning detective named Olivia Wesley Watts, who, apart from being female and slim, is rather like Fat Ollie himself. While Ollie's responding to the squeal about the dead councilman, his leather dispatch case is stolen from the back of his car -- and in it, the only copy of his precious manuscript. Joined by Carella and Kling from the neighboring 87th Precinct, Ollie investigates the homicide with all the exquisite crudeness, insensitivity, and determination for which he is famous. But the theft of his first novel fills Ollie with a renewed passion for old-fashioned detective work. Following the exploits of one of Ed McBain's most beloved detectives, this lively and complicated novel -- the fifty-second in the award-winning 87th Precinct series -- is perhaps his best book yet.

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 killers don't use guns. Most serial killers don't strike five times in two weeks. And most serial killers' prey share something more than being over fifty years of age. Now it falls to Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues in the 87th Precinct to find out what-or whom-the victims had in common before another body is found. With trademark wit and sizzling dialogue, McBain unravels a mystery and examines the dreams we chase in the darkening hours before the fiddlers have fled.

Larry Cole has everything a man could want. He loves his wife, Eve, and is devoted to their two small sons. His career as an architect is both creatively satisfying and financially rewarding. His house in suburban Pinecrest Manor is attractive and comfortable.   But then Larry sees a new neighbor standing at the school bus stop. Margaret Gault is young, blond, beautiful—and married. She’s everything Larry didn’t realize was missing from his life, and he must have her. Maggie tells Larry she’s never been in love. But this isn’t about love. It’s about need and desire. Touch and taste and risk. And lies.   Larry and Maggie surrender to lust, knowing their secret motel rendezvous and lunch-hour trysts will amount to nothing; they will always be strangers to each other. But actions have consequences. And sometimes consequences can be deadly.   Author Evan Hunter adapted his riveting novel of infidelity into a film starring Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. A torrid tale of sexual compulsion and the secrets lurking beneath the most placid of surfaces, Strangers When We Meet is an early masterpiece from the creator of the bestselling 87th Precinct series.

"Candyland merges the bestselling talents of the acclaimed author known as both Evan Hunter and Ed McBain."Candyland begins in classic Evan Hunter style....Alone in New York City on business, Benjamin Thorpe spends his empty nights on a compulsive quest for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to a confrontation in a midtown bordello and a searing self-revelation. And suddenly we are in Ed McBain territory....Emma Boyle of the Special Victims Unit investigates a young prostitute's murder. As the foggy events of the night in question come into focus, Benjamin Thorpe becomes a viable suspect. The excruciating suspense is total McBain -- and the combined impact of "Candyland is unforgettable.

Investigating the murder of a warehouse watchman, the cops of the 87th Precinct face a disturbing outbreak in cash-related crimes that link a prostitute's death, a warehouse fire, and a slum redevelopment deal. Reprint.

They never saw their executioner. Because each victim had this in common: they were blind. Steve Carella, a weary detective very much in love with his deaf wife, is stymied in a hunt that began when a Vietnam veteran, his sight taken in war, was found with his head nearly separated from his body. But as the bizarre killing spree goes on, Carella begins to look into the first victim's dreams. And what he sees is a panorama of war, sexuality, secrets, and torment -- and one man's pure, blind rage...

Fourteen spine-tingling stories of suspense include P. D. James's ""The Victim,"" in which a gorgeous celebrity uses her infatuated ex-husband as a murder weapon, and tales by Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, and other authors.CONTENTSA Man Around the House by Nancy PickardA Glowing Future by Ruth RendellCatalyst by Evan HunterDeath of a Romance Writer by Joan HessBy the Time You Read This by Larry S. HokeAll At Once, No Alice by Cornell WoolrichI Don’t Do Divorce Cases by David JusticeKilling Howard by Ralph McInernyThe Victim by P.D. JamesThe Brothers by Lawrence TreatBreakfast Television by Robert BarnardA Letter Too Late by Henry SlesarThe Betrayers by Stanley EllinThe Perfect Alibi by Patricia Highsmith

Stories included: Man Overboard (Sir Winston Churchill) Timber (John Galsworthy) The Angry Street (G. K. Chesterton) The Call of Wings (Agatha Christie) The Cherries (Lawrence Durrell) A Man From Glasgow (Somerset Maugham) Earth to Earth (Robert Graves) The Grey Ones (J. B. Priestley) The Man Who Didn't Ask Why (C. S. Forester) All But Empty (Graham Greene) Animals or Human Beings (Angus Wilson) Something Strange (Kingsley Amis) The Post-Mortem Murder (Sinclair Lewis) The Dance (F. Scott Fitzgerald) A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) The Bronze Door (Raymond Chandler) A Man Who Had No Eyes (MacKinlay Kantor) The Affair at 7 Rue de M-- (John Steinback) The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith) Inferiority Complex (Evan Hunter) The Terrible Answer (Paul Gallico) Miriam (Truman Capote) Exterminator (William Burroughs) During the Jurassic (John Updike)

"Kill me if you can" was Pepe Miranda's challenge. Murderer, two-bit hero of the street gangs, he was holed up somewhere in the 87th Precinct, making the cops look like fools and cheered on by every neighbourhood punk. Not a challenge the detectives in the squadroom could leave alone.

Calypso King George Chadderton was murdered on a September street in the 87th Precinct. Then Clara Hawkins, a black hooker, ends up the same way - from the same Smith and Wesson. Cops Carella and Meyer see little sense in it all, as the autumn rain washes their evidence away.

A collaboration between Evan Hunter and Ed McBain in which Hunter sets the scene for a crime, then, writing as Ed McBain brings into play police procedure to try and solve it. A novel in two parts.

Evan Hunter's new novel "Last Summer" offers masterful psychological portraits and a gripping plot. Four young people experience a cheerful idyll on a holiday island, which quickly transforms into a shocking climax. The novel explores the hidden brutality and chaos in a modern, seemingly perfect society.

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