Refine your search:
Ed MC Bain ✔X Ed Mcbain Precinct
- 7
-
Hark!: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (Mcbain, ed)
Amazon.com — Hark? A few weeks ago I went into a bookstore with a couple of friends and just felt like buying a book on impulse, not knowing anything about it and see where it would take me. Selecting the international fiction shelf for my picking, it was Ed ...More…
-
Eight Black Horses
Amazon CA — Seasons Greetings From The Deaf Man It's getting into the holiday season at the 87th Precinct, and what's this? An unexplained package for Det. Steve Carella? A dead naked woman lying in the park across the street? Must be another call from that ...More…
-
The Last Dance: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th ...
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Penzler Pick, January 2000: When it comes to the novels of big-city cop life revolving around a single station house's daily dramas, Ed McBain wrote the book--50 of them, in fact. And whatever one thinks of the virtues of NYPD Blue, ...More…
-
Learning to Kill: Stories
Amazon.com — The history of a great American crime author Just before his sad death last year, Ed McBain oversaw the compilation of twenty-five of his earliest stories. This collection, Learning to Kill, has just been published, and it's a wonderful look back at ...More…
-
Ice (Crime Masterworks)
Amazon.com — Lurid but beautiful, engrossing yet repellent. Ed McBain was well into his long series of 87th Precinct books by the time the time he produced this one in 1983. This one is longer than most and has a huge cast. Social groups depicted include theatre ...More…
-
Alice in Jeopardy: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review A deft, sharply drawn, and thoroughly enjoyable stand-alone from a master writer, this fast-paced suspense novel features an appealing heroine, a well realized plot, and enough wit to dial down the tension, let the reader take a deep ...More…
-
Kiss: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Amazon.com — An entertaining police novel I am probably the only mystery fan who has not read any of Ed McBain's 87th precinct novels, but that is a deficiency I plan to remedy very quickly. I just finished Kiss and was fascinated with his characters and with the ...More…
-
Fiddlers: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct ...
Amazon.com — Five Star Finale Though it had to be, what a shame to end the series on such a downbeat note, with Steve Carella's little April, once the apple of his eye, turning into a gang girl, and her opposite number, the boy twin, becoming a snitch, a rat, of ...More…
-
Killer's Payoff: An 87th Precinct Mystery (The Armchair ...
Amazon.com — Has not improved with age Granted "Killer's Payoff" was written nearly 45 years ago, but even forgetting the goofy then-hip dialog and arcane police proceedures, this is still not among the better 87th Precinct novels. The story is fairly ...More…
-
Three Blind Mice: A Novel
Amazon.com — Matthew Nearly Hopeless In Weak Story What is it about Ed McBain and romance? It can turn him from Mickey Spillane to Maurice Chevalier in a matter of two or three pages. Here we are treated to a pair of romances, one involving Florida defense attorney ...More…
-
The Big Bad City (87th Precinct Mysteries)
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Ed McBain is the only American winner of the coveted Diamond Dagger Award, and he is also a past recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. So, when a reader picks up the latest installment of McBain's 87th ...More…