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.
The first thing you need to know about this city is that it is big.
Then Kling realizes one of the victims is his fiancee Claire. Now all the cops in the 87th Precinct work the case and they have one question: who wanted to kill one of the victims so badly that he didn't care about innocent bystanders?
As Detective Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes investigate the burning of a warehouse filled with carved wooden figures, their case of arson is quickly complicated by murder
Cassandra Lee Ridley was only the first victim.
When Detectives Carella and Meyer investigate the supposed suicide by hanging of a man with no apparent enemies, they uncover a murderous conspiracy that takes them into the glamorous and passionate world of the theater.
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.
"Clifford thanks you, Madam", he said, bowing from the waist. Then the mugger vanished into the night, leaving behind his battered, terrified female victim.
She was young, wealthy - and dead.
When Detective King's blushing bride is nabbed from their honeymoon suite, the men of the 87th Precinct are out to help one of their own.
Guns: A Novel