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Here are excerpts from more than 30 years of Grand Master Ed McBain's bestselling 87th Precinct series of police procedurals, featuring some of his most lovable female characters. "If you are already a fan, here is a reunion of some old friends".--St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A collection of crime tales offers a vivid portrait of the criminals and the police that pursue them

McBain Trio is the 2nd volume of Mystery Guild's Lost Classics Omnibus Series. With a new introduction by the author, this edition show-cases Detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer in three of their toughest and finest cases. ** Lullaby, Vespers, and Widows. **

NBC Universal and TMG bring you the complete, landmark series, 87th Precinct, all 30 uncut episodes direct from the Universal vaults. Features: Norman Fell (as Meyer Meyer), Robert Lansing (as Steve Carella), Ron Harper (as Bert King), Gregory Walcot (as Roger Havilland) and Gena Rowlands (as Teddy. Approximately. 1470 Min, B&W.

The New York Times hails David Mark's work as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." ORIGINAL SKIN is the second installment of the internationally acclaimed Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series. When “swinger” Simon Appleyard is found strung-up and naked in his apartment, the authorities are only too happy to chalk it up to suicide. After all, a new gang has taken over the local drug trade, and Detective Superintendant Trish Pharaoh’s Serious and Organized Crime Unit is run ragged. A murder investigation is the last thing they need.But more bodies begin to surface, and all are somehow connected to the underground erotic scene. Although Detective Sargeant Aector McAvoy would be perfectly content to stay home with his wife and their newborn baby, he begins to suspect that murder is just the beginning. As his investigation brings him uncomfortably close to the local political elite, McAvoy realizes he is hunting a sadistic killer with a lust that won’t be satisfied until the River Humber runs red.David Mark’s latest Detective Sergeant McAvoy novel, CRUEL MERCY, is on-sale February 2017.

Gathers forty-two stories by Poe, Twain, Ambler, Queen, Carr, Ellin, Macdonald, Marsh, McBain, Oates, and Malamund

The page-turning thriller selected by Stephen King as one of the year's best books: "Never-lets-up suspense and beautiful writing." When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found.Three years later, during the worst blizzard in a century, a husband and wife are brutally killed in the farmhouse where Tash McBain once lived. A suspect is in custody, a troubled young man who can hear voices and claims that he saw a girl that night being chased by a snowman.Convinced that Piper or Tash might still be alive, clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, persuade the police to re-open the investigation. But they are racing against time to save the girls from someone with an evil, calculating and twisted mind...

Propelled by the ambitions of her Irish-Catholic, working-class mother, who desperately wants her daughter to escape the hard life, Carmel McBain strives for success and experiences the poignant loss of family ties and faith.

Thirteen years after fathering a son by Lady Gwynn, the unwilling bride of a Welsh baron who assumed the son was his own, Trevin McBain heeds the warning of a powerful magician and returns to the baron's medieval castle. Original.

Investigates the continual appeal of the mystery novel and the popularity of its most successful purveyors, from Agatha Christie to Ed McBain, drawing on a selection of the best of the genre

The acclaimed author of Presumed Innocent serves as guest editor for this new collection of the outstanding mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, and other notable authors. Simultaneous.

A man armed with a shotgun is loose in the city, killing married couples; it’s up to Detectives Carella and Kling to find him before he ends the next marriage.“The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” —Pete Hamill, Newsday“McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet...even those we thought we already knew.” —New York Times Book Review

Mike Lupica presents the second book in his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Game Changers series!Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the courts hard to practice. Ben's rivalry with Chase seems to take the fun out of playing ball with his best friends. Will Ben be able to pull it together for his team and for himself?

“The Police Procedural has three supremos: Ed McBain, Joseph Wambaugh, and David Simon with Homicide. Clear a space on the shelf beside these masters. Jack Howland has written a superb novel that sits right alongside those maestros.” Ken Bruen, Shamus-Award-winning author of The Guards and Killing the Tinkers. Just before Christmas, police answer a murder call from the Connolly Village projects, a.k.a. “Conville.” The victim is unidentifiable, naked, bound, and set afire. Working in his breakneck style, Detective Tom Rinne has a witness and suspect before anyone expects. When he identifies the victim, however, he reopens the case of a beautiful girl who vanished last summer – a girl with connections to the most powerful men in the city. As Rinne dives back into the case, it’s only a minor political firestorm. When a young black suspect is shot, however, it spirals into a race war. Rinne finds himself first a scapegoat, then a suspect, then a fugitive. One woman can save him or sell him down the river – the only woman he ever loved. One simple device – the girl’s phone – can unravel the truth and expose secrets Rinne himself might prefer to keep hidden.

An anthology of eighteen original short stories features contributions by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Lawrence Block, Ed McBain, Erica Jong, and Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

New York Times bestsellers and thriller legends John Farris and Stephen King each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stories edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain.The Ransome Women by John Farris: A psychological thriller that questions the role beauty plays in society and the cult of celebrity. A young and beautiful, starving artist catches a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome's past subjects? The Things They Left Behind by Stephen King: A hauntingly moving tale of survival guilt in New York City after 9/11. Scott Staley called in sick for his job at the World Trade Center that Tuesday morning. Now in the aftermath of 9/11, he must face his guilty conscience as he begins to find the things his deceased coworkers left behind.

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.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. Straight out of Tampere Rock City-these Finnish fiends are the bastard children of Blue Cheer and Monster Magnet (McBain era natch!)-but do not panic, this is no retro show, they are not throwbacks or wimpy psych wannabe shoegazers-this record rocks and it rocks hard! Originally released on cassette, Tamam Shud is part live rehearsal recordings and the rest created at their own Kemian Laboratorio-eight face melting freakouts with layers of effect laden guitars, s

Thirteen tales of murder and intrigue by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Ed McBain, Simon Brett, Sara Paretsky, and Jonathan Gash

A killer is out for blood, and it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to bring him in—but a shocking surprise awaits when a survivor fingers the suspect in a lineup.“McBain has the ability to make every character believable—which few writers these days can do.” —Associated Press“McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet...even those we thought we already knew.” —New York Times Book Review