87th Precinct mysteries
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Cop hater , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 1
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The pusher , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 3
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4) The con man
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English
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A con man taking an old woman's money, a cheater tricking businessmen out of thousands, and a lady-killer. If the cops know every game he plays, why are dead bodies still being found on the shore?
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Killer's payoff , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 6
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8) Lady killer
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Detective Hawes is on the trail of the man who wrote he was going to kill the lady at eight that night.
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'Til death , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 9
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King's ransom , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 10
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Give the boys a great big hand , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 11
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The heckler , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 12
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See them die: an 87th precinct mystery , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 13
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The empty hours , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 15
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Ax , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 18
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19) He who hesitates
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Warner Books
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1996, ©1965
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English
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"A craftsman visiting the city struggles to contact the 87th Precinct with details of a former lover s sudden death when there s another beauty distracting him. The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century. Pete Hamill, Newsday McBain has the ability to make every character believable which few writers these days can do"--Associated Press.
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Doll: an 87th precinct novel , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 20
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Eighty million eyes , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 21
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22) Fuzz
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 22
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The detectives of the 87th Precinct are confronted with a call - clearly a crank call - that threatens the life of the city's parks commissioner unless a ransom of $5,000 is paid. The deadline soon passes and the parks commissioner is shot in the head as he leaves a rock concert. Soon, another anonymous warning follows and the deputy mayor is blown up in his Cadillac. The next target is the young, charismatic Kennedy-esque mayor who is on the hit...
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Shotgun , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 23
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Jigsaw: an 87th precinct mystery , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 24
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Hail, hail, the gang's all here , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 25
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Sadie when she died , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 26
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Let's hear it for the deaf man , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 27
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Hail to the chief , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 28
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Long time no see , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 32
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Calypso , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 33
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Ghosts , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 34
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One night. One shift. No rest. Featuring the 87th Precinct's entire cast of characters, this Halloween takes them into the darkest corners of depravity the city has to offer. And sometimes, surviving is the greatest treat of them all. From a liquor store hold-up ending with a dead owner and four costumed 'kids' making off with the money to the pieces of a man showing up around the city, the Day of the Dead is turning the streets into a carnival of...
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There are a lot of unspeakable things that happen in the big city, and the murder of St. Catherine's Father Birney is one of them. For Detectives Carella and Hawes of the 87th Precinct, finding the killer means taking a journey into the darkest corners of the city's soul. The satanic cult near St. Catherine's parish is the obvious first suspect, but not necessarily the right one. As the detectives investigate the priest's life, they uncover blackmail,...
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Widows , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 43
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Morrow
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1993
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English
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In this 87th Precinct thriller, Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood. Foul play takes another form when an old nemesis, the Dead Man, taunts Carella and the eight-seven with riddling clues for solving a crime - or crimes - not yet committed. Given what he's deduced from the prankish perpetrator, Carella strongly...
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And all through the house , 87th Precinct mysteries volume 46
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The hanging death of an old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing much, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But 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...
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It is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and an equally shady pair of Secret Service agents are in town after a large stash of money, and no one is interested in sharing.The detectives at the 87th are already busy for the holidays. Steve Carella and Fat Ollie Weeks catch the squeal when the lions in the city zoo get an unauthorized feeding of a young...
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Simon & Schuster
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2002
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English
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Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well-known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes. Called Report to the Commissioner, it follows a cunning detective named Olivia Wesley Watts, who, apart from being female and slim, is rather like Fat Ollie himself. While Ollie's responding to the...
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2004
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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...
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Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime -- if only they can figure out what he means. The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the city's most accomplished criminals -- a thief known as the Deaf Man. Because he might be deaf. Or he might not. So little is known about the man who is harassing...
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A blind violinist taking a smoke break. A cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen. A college professor trudging home from class. A priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden. An old woman walking her dog. These are the seemingly random targets, all shot twice in the face. But most serial killers don't use guns. Most serial killers don't strike five times in two weeks. And most serial killers' victims have something more...
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McBain's ladies: the women of the 87th Precinct
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McBain's ladies, too: more women of the 87th Precinct
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