Ed McBain
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 42
Description
"Who butchered a troubled young priest in his own church? Did an overzealous gang of neighborhood Satanists have a hand in the the bloody business? Or were there even darker doings behind the ornate closed doors of St. Catherine's? In a parish torn by sin, violence, drugs, racial tension and poverty, the cops of the 87th Precinct must throw the first stone -- and hope it makes ripples in a bizarre and baffling case that will test their faith, their...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 50
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Description
The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby apartment in the 87th Precinct leads detectives Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks to the discovery of an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug, and a killer.
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 49
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A nun is murdered in New York City and an autopsy determines she had breast implants. Detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown discover that Sister Mary Vincent led a double life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Since her husband Eddie's death in a boating accident eight months ago, Alice Glendenning has struggled to make ends meet while waiting for the insurance company to pay up. When Alice takes a job as a real estate agent, she makes a new friend, Charlie Hobbs from whom she is supposed to try to buy his waterfront land for a developer. Things quickly become a nightmare for Alice when her two children, Ashley and Jamie, aren't on the school bus home one...
Author
Series
Matthew Hope mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Toy designer Lainie Commins sues her boss for patent infringement, claiming he stole her cross-eyed bear. When the man is killed aboard his yacht in Florida, Lainie is accused of murder. Lawyer Mathew Hope takes up her defense.
6) Nocturne
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 48
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspaper around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her bady and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless...
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 38
Pub. Date
[1985]
Description
This compelling story of death and retribution skillfully combines the day-to-day action of a precinct station house with the tense drama of the search for the Deaf Man, a particularly abhorrent villain
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 34
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
When Detective Steve Carella, investigating two baffling murders, discovers that his major leads are coming from a beautiful psychic, he abandons standard police procedures for the eerie world of the occult.
10) Mary, Mary
Author
Series
Matthew Hope mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Hope, the defense attorney, believes Mary Barton is innocent of murdering 3 young girls, but evidence convicts her until a long buried secret is revealed.
Author
Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 37
Pub. Date
[1984]
Description
Lightning strikes with repeated terror as a diabolical hangman murderer leaves one pretty coed after another dangling from the city's lampposts.
15) Cop hater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it's up to Detective Steve Carella to sort out who and why, before he finds himself on the wrong end of the killer's .45.
16) Fat Ollie's book
Author
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
After Fat Ollie Weeks arrests a corrupt book publisher, he tries his hand at writing his own crime novel. Just moments after Fat Ollie has finished his opus and is on his way to his agent, he catches a squeal -- a murder case in the 87th. After investigating the crime, he returns to his car to find it broken into and the manuscript -- his only copy -- gone.
