Cassandra Lee Ridley was only the first victim. The beautiful red-haired, ex-Airforce pilot had done her job perfectly, ferrying the hard currency south of the border to pay for an assignment of cocaine, and she was already back in New York when her Mexican vendors caught up with her. The 'hard' currency was not genuine and pride had been hurt. But unfortunately Cassandra didn't know enough to save her life. And when her naked body is tossed into a lion's cage in the 87th Precinct, it becomes the unwelcome responsibility of Steve Carella.
Ice coats the streets where the rapist prowls. Ice spills from the pockets of a dead diamond dealer. Ice runs through the heart of a cold-blooded killer and that of the players in a multimillion dollar show-biz scam.
Even after 13 years in the 87th Precinct, Bert Kling and Steve Carella had never seen such murders--six naked bodies, including an infant, and no one knows who any of them are.
LULLABY At New Year, a sinister song of death and destruction echoes through the 87th Precinct, and it isn't Auld Lang Syne¿ VESPERS The cops of the 87th Precinct must cast the first stone in the bizarre case of a murdered priest - and a ...
But the autopsy soon reveals the young man overdosed on heroin. He was a pusher--and now a thousand questions bear down on the detectives of the 87th Precinct. Reissue.
Three fast-moving, best-selling police thrillers--Tricks, Ice, and 8 Black Horses--from among the more than thirty in his career, explain the unfailing popularity of this best-selling author.
I'm a Fathead, Men I Am the Deaf Man Unscrambling the cryptic messages -- anagrams, Detective Carella called them -- delivered to the 87th Precinct confirmed that the master criminal who has eluded them time and again is not only alive and ...
Detective Hal Willis, investigating the deaths of two of Marilyn Hollis's former boyfriends, finds himself falling in love with the woman and uncovers a trail of deception and danger
In one of the most dazzling novellas of the Precinct, Ed McBain exposes the dangerous loyalties that keep the boys of the 87th together, and threaten to tear them apart at the same time.
Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes thought the double suicide stank of homicide, but they just couldn't get a break. Fortunately Hawes has something else going on in his life at the moment - something like love.
Wealthy Douglas King has received a ransom demand.