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  • The McBain Brief

    Stories

    by Ed McBain ...
    A collection of twenty short stories from the legendary crime author and creator of the 87th Precinct series.Ed McBain was one of the most admired and prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. His long-running 87th Precinct series helped define the gritty police procedural. In The McBain Brief, he presents a series of short stories where desperation, greed, and violence lead to bad ends.A ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fiddlers

    A Novel

    by Ed McBain ...
    Series Book 55 - 87th Precinct Mysteries
    A police detective hunts for a pattern in a puzzling murder spree in this mystery by "a master" ( Time).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 walking her dog. These are the seemingly random targets, all shot twice in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fuzz

    by Ed McBain ...
    Series Book 22 - 87th Precinct Mysteries
    Police hunt for a perp who's picking off politicians in this "triumph" ( Chicago Sun-Times).The detectives of the 87th Precinct have gotten a call threatening the life of the city's parks commissioner unless a five-thousand-dollar ransom is paid. It seems like an obvious crank call. The deadline soon passes—and the parks commissioner is shot in the head as he leaves a concert.Soon, another ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning to Kill

    Stories

    by Ed McBain ...
    A "gripping" collection of crime stories from the author of the acclaimed 87th Precinct novels ( People).Ed McBain's 87th Precinct is "perhaps the finest police procedural series of all time" ( Publishers Weekly). But before he turned to novels, McBain wrote short crime fiction under various names, for pulp magazines including Manhunt and Argosy. Collected in this anthology are twenty-five of ... Read more

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  • A Matter of Conviction

    by Ed McBain ...
    A racially charged murder pushes a mild-mannered district attorney to the brink in this gritty legal thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series.After an intense heat wave, storms threaten to blanket New York City, and three boys walk across town with knives in their pockets and murder on their minds. They're tough kids in combat boots, crossing into Spanish Harlem to pick a fight. And when ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Hark!

    A Novel of the 87th Precinct

    by Ed McBain ...
    Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime -- if only they can figure out what he means.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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nobody Knew They Were There

    by Ed McBain ...
    An assassin descends on a college town to commit a political murder in this dystopian thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ed McBain.As soon as he arrives, Sam Eisler can see the train station is too busy. His clients would like the job done there, but if he kills a man in that kind of crowd, he'll never get away—and Sam is here to commit homicide, not suicide. The target is a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Runaway

    by Ed McBain ...
    A young black man is framed by the police for a murder he didn't commit in this gritty New York crime story from the author of the 87th Precinct series.Johnny Lane is outside the Apollo when he sees Luis, and rage floods his veins. Every tough in Harlem knows that Luis tried to rape Johnny's girl, and that means he has to die. Johnny comes out swinging, but Luis is wearing brass knuckles, and he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nocturne

    A Novel of the 87th Precinct

    by Ed McBain ...
    Series Book 1900 - 87th Precinct Mysteries
    "Just in case anybody thought the forty-seven earlier novels in the 87th precinct were a fluke, McBain's gone and revitalized the routine with Nocturne." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful—especially when they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • So Nude, So Dead. Illustrated

    by Ed McBain ...
    A jazz musician wakes up from a drug-fueled blackout to find a beautiful woman dead beside him—nude and shot with his own gun. In So Nude, So Dead, master of crime fiction Ed McBain (writing under the pseudonym Richard Marsten) delivers a lean, suspenseful noir full of desperation, paranoia, and the dark seduction of addiction. Framed for murder and hunted by the police, Ray Stone must unravel the ... Read more

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  • Fat Ollie's Book

    A Novel of the 87th Precinct

    by Ed McBain ...
    This lively novel—the fifty-second in the award-winning 87th Precinct series—follows the exploits of Ed McBain's most beloved and foul-mouthed detective, Fat Ollie Weeks.All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea...But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul mouth and short temper than his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Criminal Conversation

    by Ed McBain ...
    An assistant district attorney launches a one-man crusade against the Mafia in this legal thriller from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.The call comes from Narcotics, Manhattan South. A low-level drug dealer just got caught in a buy-bust, and he's ready to spill his guts. It wouldn't be a priority—especially not four days before Christmas—but the thug just mentioned the Mafia, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD