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McBain,Ed Eight Black Horses (87th Precinct Series #38)
Avon 1986 0380700298 / 9780380700295 Mass Market Paperback Very-good
Very-good, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). Pages show light tanning. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 244 pages. Synopsis: It all got terribly confusing when the Deaf Man put in an appearance.... ...and the criminal mastermind is making his presence known by the dead bodies that are turning up around Isola. Then there are the notes — with cryptic patterns including eight black horses dancing across a page — that look like they mean nothing. But Detectives Kling, Carella, and Meyer know that with the Deaf Man, the seemingly meaningless always means something. Something bad. And as late fall hurtles toward Christmas, the Deaf Man is counting down the days, luring the cops of the 87th Precinct with a series of taunting clues — all leading toward a horrifying act of revenge orchestrated by a psychopathic killer. Publishers Weekly: McBain brings back the Deaf Man to baffle the police of his 87th precinct. By switching the narrative back and forth from the police officers to the psychotic criminal, the author creates tension that lasts until the shattering conclusion. ``Ingenious,'' PW stated. (June) Biography: Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award-nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter — including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a 50th anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005.
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McBain, Ed Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear
Warner Books Inc 1996 0446519898 / 9780446519892 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new copy - NO price clippings - Remainder mark on bottom. Stated First Edition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 326 pages - Tight spine - Bright pages - What's cuddly, cute, and the object of a high-stakes court battle? It's Gladly, a cross-eyed teddy bear: the brainchild of slightly cross-eyed beauty Lainie Commins, Matthew Hope's client and the litigant in a trademark dispute with toy company tycoons Etta and Brett Toland. Hope, still recovering from a near-fatal shooting, is certain he can win this case - until someone murders one of the key players. Suddenly Lainie is up for another trial, this time for homicide. While she vigorously denies any involvement in the shooting aboard the yacht Toy Boat, her story keeps changing, and the evidence against her mounts - until Hope discovers that Lainie is not only a toy designer with a complaint but also a participant in a most surprising sexual liaison.
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McBain,Ed Heat:The New 87th Precinct Mystery
Ballantine Books 1983 0345306732 / 9780345306739 Mass Market Paperback Very-good+
Very-good+, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). 202 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book.
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McBain,Ed Ice
Avon 1984 0380671085 / 9780380671083 First Avon Printing Mass Market Paperback Very-good
Very-good, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 317 pages. Pages show light tanning.
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McBain,Ed Poison: An 87th Precinct Novel
Avon 1988 0380700301 / 9780380700301 Mass Market Paperback Very-good+
Very-good+, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show light tanning. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 246 pages. From Publishers Weekly: The most popular of McBain's numerous novels feature the dedicated, decent men of the 87th Precinct and the latest is delivered with the author's familiar skill. Detectives Steve Carella and Hal Wallis interrogate beautiful, wealthy Marilyn Hollis when one of her swains dies of poison, possibly a suicide. Marilyn becomes a murder suspect later, as two more men she has been socially and sexually involved with are killed in a development that creates a serious problem for the investigators. Wallis is now the woman's lover, living with her despite Carella's protest. Both detectives continue to track Marilyn's former male companions, looking for a jealous killer. But Wallis, heartsick, begins to believe that Marilyn is guilty. The taut, gripping story closes with a knockout surprise. Reprint rights to Avon; Mystery Guild, Doubleday Book Club selections; Literary Guild dual selection; major ad/promo. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description: Jerome Edward McKennon was found sprawled on the carpet, the phone clenched in his fist. It was a gruesome poisoning, and the clues lead to gorgeous Marilyn Hollis. When Detective Hal Willis finds himself falling in love with Marilyn, he knows the only hope for their love is to prove her innocence, before passion turns to Poison. HC: Arbor House.
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McBain, Ed Romance: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
New York, New York, U.S.A. Warner Books, Incorporated 1995 0446518042 / 9780446518048 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition (April 1995) - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 321 pages. - It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is really attacked, outside the theater. And before the detectives of the 87th can solve that crime, the same actress is stabbed again. This time for keeps. A.D.A. Nellie Brand moves in for a murder conviction, but Detective Steve Carella is sure she's got the wrong guy, and wrestles for the case with Fat Ollie Weeks, Isola's foulest cop. While Bert Kling interviews witnesses and suspects ranging from the show's producers to the author - who has written novels about cops and knows how it's done - to the lead's lovely understudy, he can't keep his mind off what's happening to him. He's falling in love. With a doctor. Who happens to be a deputy chief surgeon. Who happens to be a black woman. In the city of Isola, nothing is black and white. In the play Romance, no one is guilty or innocent. And in the gritty reality of the 87th Precinct, everyone is in love with something - even if it's only murder.
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McBain, Ed The Big Bad City: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Simon & Schuster 1999 0684855127 / 9780684855127 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Tight spine, bright pages. Previous owner's name label (small) in book front on blank page (Jeanne M. Sherwood - Pocatello, Idaho). Date written above the label (10-00). NO other writing or marks inside book. NO tears inside book. 272 pages. 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 Precinct series, the bar is set pretty high. But with The Big Bad City, McBain meets expectations. In the opening pages, Steve Carella and Artie Brown return to the department with 9 basketball players (the 10th player was murdered) only to discover a knife fight erupting in a holding cell. It's a steamy August night, and Carella and Detective Parker end up having to shoot one of the fighters to cool things down. Then Meyer and Kling enter the scene; they're hot in pursuit of the Cookie Boy, a thief who leaves chocolate-chip cookies at every crime sight. Before the interminable day is done, Carella and Brown are called out to Grover Park to investigate a homicide. A nun has been strangled to death, but she's no ordinary Sister. She's got signs of a breast augmentation operation that hint at a sordid past. Finally, readers are privy to a conversation between Juju and Sonny. Sonny killed a cop's dad, and Juju is convinced that the police will bend the rules to see that Sonny winds up dead. Juju insists that the only way out of the death trap is to kill the cop first. The officer's name is Steve Carella. And all of this happens in the first 15 pages. McBain is one of the artists of the police procedural. Though his city is fictional, it breathes with the darkness and gritty reality of many American cities. He enters the minds and hearts of his characters to uncover the daily insecurities that accompany the work of policemen. Readers new to the 87th Precinct will want to venture back to such tales as 1956's Cop Hater, 1964's Ax, and 1965's Doll, among the 47 installments in this series. Those who've been along for the ride will be happy they did not give up their seat. --Patrick O'Kelley From Publishers Weekly: McBain has been writing his 87th Precinct stories since 1956, but Isola's cops and crooks remain as fresh as rain. In the 49th book in the series, detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown are searching for the killer of a nun. An autopsy reveals that the strangled woman had breast implants and an unconventional background, moving between her pious, charitable order and a freewheeling secular life. Other oddities are plaguing the 87th, too. The hood who recently murdered Carella's father is walking around loose because an inept prosecutor blew the case. Now the thug is stalking Carella, and Carella's sister wants to marry the prosecutor. Meanwhile, detectives Meyer Meyer and Bert King are tracking the Cookie Boy, a burglar who leaves a little box of home-baked chocolate chip cookies at his victims' homes. His crimes escalate to felony murder when he interrupts a tryst and things go very bad, very quickly. As always, McBain invests the many story lines with off-the-wall humor (nun jokes abound), a startlingly real cast of suspects and witnesses and a terrifically entertaining mix of cop dialogue, gritty city atmosphere and action. McBain is so good, he ought to be arrested. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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McBain, Ed The Frumious Bandersnatch: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Simon & Schuster 2004 0743250346 / 9780743250344 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Fine Condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 287 pages. Synopsis It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso is young and beautiful, with the body and voice of an angel. The stage is set for her to launch her debut album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht in the heart of the city. But halfway through her performance, masked men drag Tamar off the stage and into a waiting speedboat, while the partygoers look on helplessly. Detective Steve Carella is just showing up for the graveyard shift when news of the kidnapping comes in. Working disjointedly with a Joint Task Force that calls itself "The Squad," Carella and the men and women of the Eight-Seven must find Tamar before time -- or indeed her very life -- runs out. In this brilliant look at the music industry, Ed McBain once again combines his mastery of form with the fast-paced dialogue and intricate plotting that have become his signature.
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McBain, Ed The House That Jack Built: A Matthew Hope Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co 1988 0805007873 / 9780805007879 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $16.95 - 248 pages - Number line: 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - As always, McBain's ear-perfect dialogue and stinging wit invigorate his story, eighth in the series of takeoffs on classic nursery fare. Lawyer Matthew Hope of Calusa, Fla., stars again as an amateur sleuth searching for evidence to exonerate a client. This time the accused is a visitor from the Midwest, Ralph Parrish, charged with murdering his gay brother, Jonathan, after a wild party at a Florida beach house. Although unhappy over Jonathan's debauchery and sexual orientation, Ralph loved his brother, and Hope believes in his client's innocence. Setting out on a serpentine path, the lawyer comes into the presence of people with secrets he can't pry loose: a priest at the church near Jonathan's house, a pair of married homosexuals, Arthur Hurley and Bill Walker, and their traveling companion, young, pregnant Helen Abbott. At the last turn in the road, Hope meets elderly Sophie Brechtmann and her daughter, Elise, owners of the famous Brechtmann Brewery, where the investigator learns how to make beer (and so does the reader) in the episode that ends a tale as spellbinding as McBain's Goldilocks, Puss in Boots and his other bestsellers.
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McBain, Ed The Last Dance: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 2000 0684855135 / 9780684855134 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - NO price clippings or remainder marks - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - 269 pages - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - 269 pages - The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug and a killer who stays until the last dance.
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McBain, Ed Tricks: An 87th Precinct Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. Arbor House Pub Co 1987 0877959277 / 9780877959274 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Price inside dustcover: $16.95 - Number-line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO writing, marks or tears - 247 pages - MWA Grand Master McBain scores again with the story of a hellish Halloween in the famous 87th Precinct. Detectives Hawes and Brown get reports of a dismembered corpse that sexy Marie Sebastiani identifies as her husband, magician Sebastian the Great. Meanwhile, detectives Carella and Meyer go after a gang of children whose tricks are killing and robbing liquor-store owners. In another part of the jungle, Eileen Burke poses as a hooker to decoy the city's serial killer, and loses her backup team. The night runs its dreadful course as the kids shoot Carella and Meyer and ends, ironically, with goof-off detective Andy Parker winning credit for a spectacular coup. McBain's machine-gun dialogue and authentic atmosphere keep the reader in screaming suspense throughout the narrative, guaranteeing that this will be a bestseller, like its 40 predecessors.
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McBain, Ed Widows: A Novel
William Morrow & Co 1991 0688102190 / 9780688102197 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Fine copy of this 1991 First Edition (so-stated) hardback. Price inside dustcover: $19.00. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 332 pages. - Not long after the brutal slaying of his sexy blond mistress, twice-married lawyer Arthur Schumaker is gunned down in the heart of the 87th Precinct, leaving behind dark secrets and unanswered questions.
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