Ed McBain Books In Order

87th Precinct Books In Publication Order

  1. Cop Hater (1956)
  2. The Mugger (1956)
  3. The Pusher (1956)
  4. The Con Man (1957)
  5. Killer’s Choice (1957)
  6. Lady Killer (1958)
  7. Killer’s Wedge (1958)
  8. Killer’s Payoff (1958)
  9. King’s Ransom (1959)
  10. ‘Til Death (1959)
  11. Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960)
  12. The Heckler (1960)
  13. See Them Die (1960)
  14. Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961)
  15. The Empty Hours (1962)
  16. Like Love (1962)
  17. Ten Plus One (1963)
  18. Ax (1963)
  19. He Who Hesitates (1965)
  20. Doll (1965)
  21. Eighty Million Eyes (1966)
  22. Fuzz (1968)
  23. Shotgun (1968)
  24. Jigsaw (1970)
  25. Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here! (1971)
  26. Sadie When She Died (1972)
  27. Let’s Hear It for the Deaf Man (1973)
  28. Hail to the Chief (1973)
  29. Bread (1974)
  30. Blood Relatives (1975)
  31. So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976)
  32. Long Time No See (1977)
  33. Calypso (1979)
  34. Ghosts (1980)
  35. Heat (1981)
  36. McBain Brief (1982)
  37. Ice (1983)
  38. Lightning (1984)
  39. And All Through The House (1984)
  40. Eight Black Horses (1985)
  41. Poison (1987)
  42. Lullaby (1989)
  43. Vespers (1989)
  44. Tricks (1989)
  45. Widows (1991)
  46. Kiss (1992)
  47. Mischief (1993)
  48. Romance (1995)
  49. Nocturne (1997)
  50. The Big Bad City (1998)
  51. The Last Dance (1999)
  52. Money, Money, Money (2001)
  53. Fat Ollie’s Book (2002)
  54. The Frumious Bandersnatch (2003)
  55. Hark! (2004)
  56. Fiddlers (2005)

Matthew Hope Books In Publication Order

  1. Goldilocks (1976)
  2. Rumpelstiltskin (1981)
  3. Beauty And The Beast (1982)
  4. Jack and the Beanstalk (1984)
  5. Snow White and Rose Red (1985)
  6. Cinderella (1986)
  7. Puss in Boots (1987)
  8. The House That Jack Built (1988)
  9. Three Blind Mice (1990)
  10. Mary, Mary (1991)
  11. There Was A Little Girl (1994)
  12. Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996)
  13. The Last Best Hope (1998)

Transgressions Books In Publication Order

  1. Transgressions (2006)
  2. Transgressions, Vol. 2 (With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,John Farris) (2006)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Rocket To Luna (1953)
  2. Don’t Crowd Me (1953)
  3. Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953)
  4. Cut Me In (1954)
  5. Runaway Black (1954)
  6. The Blackboard Jungle (1954)
  7. Death of a Nurse (1955)
  8. Murder in the Navy (1955)
  9. Tomorrow’s World (1956)
  10. Second Ending (1956)
  11. Vanishing Ladies (1957)
  12. The Spiked Heel (1957)
  13. Strangers When We Met (1958)
  14. Even the Wicked (1958)
  15. The Gutter and the Grave (1958)
  16. Big Man (1959)
  17. A Matter of Conviction (1959)
  18. Buddwing (1964)
  19. The Sentries (1965)
  20. The Paper Dragon (1967)
  21. A Horse’s Head (1967)
  22. Last Summer (1968)
  23. Sons (1969)
  24. Nobody Knew They Were There (1971)
  25. Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)
  26. Seven (1972)
  27. Come Winter (1973)
  28. Streets of Gold (1974)
  29. Doors (1975)
  30. Where There’s Smoke (1975)
  31. Guns (1976)
  32. The Chisholms (1976)
  33. Mothers and daughters (1977)
  34. Love Dad (1981)
  35. Far from the Sea (1982)
  36. Lizzie (1984)
  37. Another Part Of The City (1986)
  38. Downtown (1989)
  39. Gangs! (1989)
  40. Scimitar (1992)
  41. Criminal Conversation (1994)
  42. Privileged Conversation (1995)
  43. Driving Lessons (1998)
  44. Candyland (2000)
  45. The Moment She Was Gone (2002)
  46. Alice In Jeopardy (2004)
  47. So Nude, So Dead (2015)
  48. Runaway (2016)

Children’s Books In Publication Order

  1. Find the Feathered Serpent (1952)
  2. The Remarkable Harry (1961)
  3. Wonderful Button, The (1961)
  4. Me and Mr. Stenner (1976)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Let’s Talk (2005)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The McBain Brief (1982)
  2. Barking at Butterflies (2000)
  3. Running from Legs and Other Stories (2002)
  4. Learning to Kill (2006)
  5. Transgressions (2006)
  6. Keller’s Adjustment; Forever (2006)
  7. I Like ‘Em Tough (2016)

World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  2. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  3. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
  5. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 (2004)

Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Books In Publication Order

  1. The Sunday Pigeon Murders (By:Craig Rice) (1942)
  2. The Thursday Turkey Murders (By:Craig Rice) (1943)
  3. The April Robin Murders (With: Craig Rice) (1958)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (1981)
  2. City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989)
  3. The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996)
  4. Crime After Crime (1999)
  5. The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999)
  6. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  7. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  8. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  9. Dangerous Women (2005)
  10. Transgressions (2005)
  11. Transgressions vol. 4 (2006)
  12. Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006)
  13. Masters of Noir (2010)
  14. Books to Die For (2012)

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Ed McBain Books Overview

Cop Hater

THE HEROES OF THE CITY’S STREETS BECOME THE HUNTED IN THIS CRIME FICTION CLASSIC ED MCBAIN’S FIRST 87th PRECINCT NOVEL Swift, silent, and deadly someone is knocking off the 87th Precinct’s finest, one by one. The how of the killings is obvious: three . 45 shots from the dark add up to one, two, three very dead detectives. The why and the who are the Precinct’s headaches now. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open and shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective buys it. With one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city’s underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a . 45 automatic aimed straight at his head…
.

The Mugger

This mugger is special. He preys on women, waiting in the darkness then comes from behind, attacks them, and snatches their purses. He tells them not to scream and as they’re on the ground, reeling with pain and fear, he bows and nonchalantly says, Clifford thanks you, madam. But when he puts one victim in the hospital and the next in the morgue, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are not amused and will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. Dashing young patrolman Bert Kling is always there to help a friend. And when a friend’s sister in law is The Mugger‘s murder victim, Bert’s personal reasons to find the maniacal killer soon become a burning obsession and it could easily get him killed. The second book in the 87th Precinct series, The Mugger is an Ed McBain classic, a nuanced portrayal of justice and vengeance hailed by the Daily Mirror as a masterpiece of crime writing and there’s nobody who does it better.

The Pusher

Most suicides don’t realize the headaches they cause…
. Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man’s body was found in a tenement baseme*nt. The rope around his neck suggested a clear case of suicide until the autopsy revealed he’d overdosed on hero*in. He was a pusher, and now a thousand questions pressed down on the detectives of the 87th Precinct: Who set up the phony hanging? Whose fingerprints were on the syringe found at the scene? Who was making threatening phone calls, attempting to implicate Lieutenant Byrnes’ teenage son? Somebody was pushing the 87th Precinct hard, and Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Pete Byrnes have to push back harder before a frightening and deadly chain tightens its grip.

The Con Man

A con man is plying his trade on the streets of Isola: conning a domestic for pocket change, businessmen for thousands, and even ladies in exchange for a little bit of love. You can see the world, meet a lot of nice people, imbibe some unique drinks, and make a ton of money…
all by conning them for their cash. The question is: How far is he willing to go?When a young woman’s body washes up in the Harb River, the answer to that question becomes tragically clear. Now Detective Steve Carella races against time to find him before another con turns deadly. The only clue he has to go on is the mysterious tattoo on the young woman’s hand but it s enough. Carella takes to the streets, searching its darkest corners for a man who cons his victims out of their money…
and their lives.A crime fiction classic, The Con Man is the third book in the 87th Precinct series from Ed McBain, whom the Daily Mirror hails as the undisputed master…
there s nobody who does it better.

Killer’s Choice

Annie Boone is dead. She was shot four times in the chest, pieces of the liquor store’s windows spread over her body like raindrops from a lethal storm. For 87th Precinct Detectives Carella, Kling, and newcomer Hawes, even more troubling is the loss of one of their own. Detective Roger Havilland is murdered shortly thereafter, a shard of glass through his jugular. Faced with a host of suspects from Annie s former mother in law to her ex husband, employer, and a string of boyfriends the detectives find themselves with a victim whose identity spurns all conventional definition. She was the store s saleswoman as well as a divorced mother, pool shark, society lady, drunk, and patron of the ballet. Each facet of her life has a corresponding potential suspect. The only way for Carella and the men to find her killer and maybe that of Havilland, too is to find out who she really was. The problem is, the only one who really knew her died in a shower of glass.A brooding, mesmerizing psychological thriller, Killer s Choice is a stunning addition to mystery icon Ed McBain s 87th Precinct series. Its complex plotting and extraordinary intensity, which culminates in an explosive finish, will leave you breathless.

Lady Killer

I will kill the Lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it? This is the message on a pasted up letter handed to Desk Sergeant Dave Murchison at 8:00 a.m. The detectives at the 87th Precinct have gotten these types of threats before, but there’s something different about this one. Something ominous. Problem is, the city contains millions of women finding the right one in twelve hours is like finding a needle in a haystack. Detectives Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes go down the list of likely suspects but in a city this big, it’s a best guess scenario. And with the clock ticking and no other leads, guessing is the only card they have to play. All they need is one break or they won t get a second chance.A classic race against time thriller with relentless pacing and top notch plotting, Lady Killer is a master class in detective fiction and a riveting addition to Ed McBain s 87th Precinct series.

Killer’s Wedge

Her name is Virginia Dodge. And she’s here to kill Detective Steve Carella. An ordinary day at the 87th Precinct is about to take a turn for the worse when Dodge shows up to put a bullet in Carella s head. And she doesn t care if she has to take all the men in the 87th with her to do it. Armed with a homemade bomb, handgun, and a bottle of nitroglycerine hidden in her purse, Virginia holds the entire squadroom hostage as she waits for Carella. And no one is leaving until he shows up to meet his maker. With all the men of the 87th save one held prisoner, they engage in a battle of wits to save their colleague from their deadly captor.A classic in Ed McBain s groundbreaking 87th Precinct series, Killer s Wedge is a mesmerizing, profoundly relevant thriller where terrorism strikes deep into the heart of the house, putting everyone s life on the line in a tense standoff with an enemy who cannot be reasoned with.

Killer’s Payoff

He appeared to be a decent, upright, honest citizen…
. And yet appearances can be more than deceiving in the world of blackmail and extortion. The shocking gangland style murder of known blackmailer Sy Kramer begs the question: which of Kramer’s marks had given him his very last payoff? A politician’s beautiful wife with a deadly secret? An overly interested ex con? A wealthy soft drinks executive? Or the mystery person who had fattened Kramer’s wallet by the thousands? The detectives of the 87th Precinct must break the chain that links the dead man’s associates and single out a killer before someone else cashes it in.

King’s Ransom

‘Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here’s the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.’ The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy the chauffeur’s son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. A lot of money. But it’s not too much to pay for a little boy’s life…
is it?

‘Til Death

The wedding day of Detective Steve Carella’s sister Angela should be the most romantic, special day of her life. But it might turn out to be the worst if her brother can t figure out which man on the guest list has come to murder the groom. Carella and the men from the 87th Precinct find themselves on the clock as they desperately hunt amongst the name cards and catered dinners for the would be assailant. Trouble is, the crowd has numerous people with viable motives: the best man who stands to inherit everything the groom owns, the ex boyfriend with a homicidal crush, and even an ex GI with a score to settle. But time is ticking, and if they don t act fast, Angela will become a bride and a widow on the same day. Another riveting installment of the 87th Precinct series, ‘Til Death is one of bestseller Ed McBain s finest, an intense, life and death nerve wracker hailed by the Literary Review as zestful, inventive, and utterly compulsive.

Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

He dresses in black and stalks the streets of the 87th Precinct. He is a shadow, always searching for his next victim. And when he finds it, all that will be left is a severed hand. For Detectives Carella and Hawes, this new killer is an enigma. He leaves no trace of his crime no evidence at all. Even the severed hands have had their fingertips sheared off. With nothing much to go on, the detectives work off the hunch that the black clad killer has a grudge against the 87th, and begin a frantic manhunt before any more of his handiwork appears on their streets. One of world renowned crime master Ed McBain’s most grisly and intense novels in the famed 87th Precinct series, Give the Boys a Great Big Hand is a finely tuned build up of brooding malevolence and frantic desperation

The Heckler

‘There are crazy people all over, you know that, don’t you?’ Spring was intoxicating the city air, but the harassing anonymous telephone calls planting seeds of fear around town were no April Fool’s joke. Crank calls and crackpot threats reported to the 87th Precinct by a respected businessman were not exactly top priority for detectives Carella and Meyer until a brutal homicide hits the papers. Connections are getting made fast and furious, and there’s a buzz in the air about the Deaf Man, a brilliant criminal mastermind. Now, the 87th Precinct is buying time to reveal the voice on the other end of the line as the level of danger rises from a whisper to a scream…
.

See Them Die

Kill me if you can. Local thug Pepe Miranda’s open challenge to the police has pushed July s heat to a boiling point. His latest crime elevated him to the top of the 87th Precinct s most wanted list, and now his dare is earning him street cred as well. With the city s most dangerous gangs mobilized for an epic showdown, the fate of the precinct hangs in the balance. But Lieutenant Peter Byrnes and his detectives are ready for anything. They certainly aren t going to let a challenge like that lie not from someone like Miranda and not when a tip puts them hot on his trail. As the men of the 87th close in, they could be heading into a deadly gunfight that blows their city apart. Ed McBain s See Them Die is a visceral journey into the heart of the 87th Precinct s meanest streets, a gritty, adrenaline fueled freight train that hurtles toward its explosive conclusion.

Lady, Lady, I Did It!

The only person Detective Bert Kling cares about in this world is his fianc e, Claire Townsend. And when her body is found slain at the infamous bookstore massacre, Bert and every detective in the precinct is determined to get the man responsible. To do so, they re going to have to figure out the connection between a junkie, a professor, a bookstore owner, and the beautiful fianc e of a cop. When they do, there will be nowhere for the killer to hide.A devastating look at the personal side of a hardened detective, Lady, Lady, I Did It! is a gut wrenching addition to Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, and it paints in sharp relief the squadroom s familial bonds and the price paid for violating its sanctity.

He Who Hesitates

As Roger Broome tries to muster the courage to visit the 87th Precinct to talk about Molly, the woman he had met in a bar and took home, but Amelia, a pretty Spanish girl, leads him to forget his intentions, and with his every hesitation, the countdown on a innocent woman’s life continues.

Eighty Million Eyes

Another installment in the enormously popular series of police procedurals set in the 87th Precinct finds detectives Meyer and Carella on the case of the televised death of a beloved television comedian. NYT.

Fuzz

In this great novel set in and around a NYC police stationhouse, Steve Carella finds how two brutal murder cases converge through coincidence in a startling and savage conclusion.

Shotgun

They were dead, the husband and wife. Both were shot in the face at close range with a Shotgun. The husband, in fact, still had his finger on the trigger, the barrel pointing toward what used to be a significant portion of his head. It was clearly a suicide or did it just look that way? For Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling, what seems to be the truth on the surface often reveals something far different underneath.A killer is murdering married women and their husbands. But setting up shop in the 87th Precinct was the wrong move. Carella and Kling don t buy the suicide theory, and soon enough they are on the killer’s trail. The only trouble is the murderous crime wave ripping through the city has gathered momentum. The Chicago Sun Times proclaims, Ed McBain He hooks you He holds you. Shotgun, a gritty thriller in the 87th Precinct series, is a blast of sheer intensity as a series of grisly murders leads you on a high octane ride toward a shocking, unforgettable conclusion.

Jigsaw

Detective Arthur Brown discovers that the odd shaped snapshot found clutched in the dead man’s hand is a piece of a deadly puzzle worth a suitcase of stolen cash. Reissue.

Sadie When She Died

The victim had a knife in her chest, and the husband didn’t even try to disguise the fact that he was glad. From the very beginning, Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct is sure that someone was hired to make the killing look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman’s secrets start to spill out of the closet and Carella and Bert Kling find themselves entering the city’s sexual underground to discover the truth.

Hail to the Chief

It’s January. The weather is cold and it s about to feel even colder. Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th Precinct stand at the edge of their jurisdiction staring down into a ditch filled with six naked, murdered bodies. But who put them there and why? As Carella and Kling dive deeper into the mystery of the six, they find themselves walking into a deadly battle among three teenage gangs: the Hispanic Death s Heads, the African American Scarlet Avengers, and a white gang known as the clique. Racing to put together the clues before a criminal mastermind and a full blown gang war tear the city apart, Carella and Kling need to use every trick in their arsenal. Hail to the Chief is one of the finest in bestselling author Ed McBain s 87th Precinct series. An edgy thriller with marvelous characters that speeds toward an explosive final act.

Bread

The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things can always get hotter. With nearly half the squadroom on vacation, Detectives Carella and Hawes look into what appears to be an ordinary warehouse fire but Carella and Hawes rarely see anything ordinary, and this is no different. The trail from the warehouse leads uptown to the murders of a junkie and a suspected prostitute. They soon discover a shady ghetto redevelopment deal may have gruesome ties that run deep into the city’s underbelly. Full of fascinating characters and dialogue that tears up the pages, Bread follows a bloody money trail through the city s back alleys and dark corners. This installment of the 87th Precinct series is bestselling author Ed McBain at his grittiest.

So Long as You Both Shall Live

Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fianc e Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work and was gone. Now he’s finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage together until bad luck catches him again. When Kling gets out of the shower, Augusta is gone, leaving behind one shoe and cotton soaked in chloroform. Even harder than calling Detective Steve Carella with the news is standing on the sidelines while the rest of the men do all the work. But he ll have to or he ll never see her alive again.A spine tingling race against time as the detectives of the 87th do what they do best, So Long as You Both Shall Live is an extraordinary addition to the series, an Ed McBain masterpiece that marries taut police procedure with the personal stakes of a man who stands to lose everything again.

Ghosts

A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavement. Upstairs her neighbor and popular ghost story author Gregory Craig lay dead as well, stabbed in his apartment. When Craig’s publisher is found murdered just days later, Detective Steve Carella has a deadly mystery on his hands, one unlike any he s ever had before. Searching for clues, Carella instead finds Craig s girlfriend, a medium whose spooky predictions keep him guessing. When some leads take him to a haunted house on the New England shores, strange events turn even stranger until, back in the city, he turns up the crucial evidence he needs to track down the killer. A rare twist in Ed McBain s 87th Precinct series, Ghosts weaves the haunting uneasiness of the supernatural thriller with a classic, tightly plotted police procedural. Stephen King hails Ghosts as excellent. It s a fine and creepy mystery, and a fine novel.

Heat

Unwilling to accept inconsistent clues that would otherwise indicate suicide, Detective Steve Carella tries to figure out what really happened to an alcoholic artist while his partner tries to ward off a vengeful psychopath. Reissue.

Ice

Snow whips through the city’s streets like lethal daggers when a young actress leaves the theater after her latest performance. She walks home instead of taking the subway, and soon the snow on the ground is stained red with her blood. A cold, hard winter is blowing in, and it s bringing greed and murder. For Detectives Carella, Kling, Meyer, and Brown, the sudden storm that has covered the city in a suffocating sheet of ice is only the beginning of their problems. From a multimillion dollar showbiz scam and diamonds spilling out of a dead man s vest to a cold hearted rapist prowling the streets and a stone cold murderer on the loose, the frozen grip of fear is strangling the city. It is up to the men of the 87th to bring the heat. Bestselling author Ed McBain pulls out all the stops in Ice, a classic installment of his famed 87th Precinct series that blends intense plotting, biting dialogue, and gripping suspense. The New Yorker hails Ice as a real stunner!

And All Through The House

A peaceful Christmas Eve turns riotous when the members of the 87th Precinct bring in a kid who has stolen a sheep from the zoo to give to his sister, a pawnshop robber with a bag of gold, and a pregnant woman who promptly gives birth behind the filing cabinets.

Eight Black Horses

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.

Poison

When one of your ex boyfriends dies of Poisoning, it is an unfortunate circumstance, possibly a suicide. When three go the same way, it is a disturbing pattern. The wealthy and beautiful Marilyn Hollis turns from a necessary interview to conclude a case to the prime suspect in a murder investigation. The problem is that Detective Hal Willis has broken a cardinal rule of detective work: he is Hollis’s newest beau. Now living with her despite the objections of Detective Steve Carella, Willis continues to do his duty as he tracks her former flames in search of a jealous murderer. But as the investigation progresses, he begins to get the sinking feeling that the killer shares his bed. Poison is Ed McBain in all his glory as his famed group of 87th Precinct detectives face off with a killer who lives and hides in their hearts.

Lullaby

New Year’s Day brings the dawn of a new year and the hope of better days to come. But for a couple who returns home from a New Year s Eve party in the early morning hours to find their babysitter and child murdered, that hope is suddenly, brutally gone. For Detectives Carella and Meyer, the sight of the crime scene hits with magnum force, their own children at home safe in their beds. Detective Kling rings in the New Year with an investigation into drug trafficking that erupts into a deadly turf war among rival gangs. They will stop at nothing to kill each other to achieve supremacy and even kill a detective in the bargain. The fortieth installment in what iconic writer Stephen King calls inarguably the best series of police procedural novels ever written, Lullaby is Ed McBain at his groundbreaking best.

Vespers

The priest lay on the bloodstained stones, his life drained from the wounds in his back…
. In a walled garden surrounded by skyscrapers, Father Michael Birney met an unholy end, stabbed by an assailant who invaded his Vespers prayers and then vanished as twilight overtook the big city. A stone’s throw from the crime scene, a congregation of Satan worshipers chants its disturbing incantations an irony not lost on Detectives Carella and Hawes, who search among the cultists for a killer. But it will take more than a leap of faith for the cops of the 87th Precinct to expose the truth behind the deadliest and bloodiest of sins.

Widows

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. ‘A brilliant job.’ The New York Times Book Review. Contains a chapter from McBain’s next hardcover, Kiss 2/92. HC: William Morrow.

Kiss

87th Precinct Detective Steve Carella is faced with a wealthy and beautiful blond who’s survived two attempts on her life. Her stockbroker husband has hired a private detective to protect her. But nothing is as it seems in this action filled thriller: the husband is cheating on the wife, the private detective is a fake, and the wife falls in love with her guardian/killer! While all this is going on, Detective Carella is faced with the most painful court case of his life; the trial of the murderers who killed his father. Kiss reflects the masterful plotting, smashing dialogue, and razor sharp suspense that have made Ed McBain a ntional treasure.

Mischief

The Deaf Man is back! In his first appearance since Eight Black Horses in 1985, the nemesis of the 87th returns with a vengeance. Zeroing in on Steve Carella, his favorite foil, he bombards the squadroom with directives that seem to describe in detail exactly what he’s up to this time but not quite. What he’s planning is his most devilish million dollar caper to date. In the squadroom, an otherwise slow March night is enlivened by the murder of a graffiti writer under a highway bridge. Over the course of several weeks, more of the city’s outlaw artists are killed under mysterious circumstances, and a team run by Detective Parker begins to put the pieces together. Meanwhile, a new criminal activity surfaces: Someone is abandoning helpless elderly men and women at different locations around the city. As if all this weren’t enough, racial tensions in the city are at an all time high. While pressure mounts on various fronts, the city announces a free rap concert in the park, set for a day in the very near future. As the shattering finale of Mischief looms, seemingly unrelated developments intertwine in an ending that sets a new standard even for McBain’s most discerning fans. It’s been said that ‘nobody writes the police procedural as well as Ed McBain’ San Diego Union. And in his latest tale of the 87th Precinct, Mischief McBain proves his mastery of the genre beyond reasonable doubt.

Romance

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.

Nocturne

In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for the 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century long vanished. Meanwhile 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he’s on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent the evening carving up a hooker.

The Big Bad City

You don’t kill a nun in the 87th…
not and get away with it. One thing you have to understand about this city is: it’s dangerous. Never mind the reassuring bulletins from the mayor’s office. Just watch the first ten minutes of the 11:00 o’clock news every night and you’ll learn in the wink of an eye exactly what the people of this city are capable of doing to each other. And 11:00 is when the city learned about a nun strangled in the park. Detectives Carella and Brown of the 87th Precinct catch the case. Who’d kill a nun? Why? Their search for answers will lead them far from The Big Bad City, into the South, into the past into a dark moment in the nun’s life when she wasn’t Sister Mary Vincent. It was a moment when she bore witness to evil. But Sister Mary’s murder isn’t the only think concerning the men of the 87th. They’re also hunting for the Cookie Boy, a burglar who may have graduated from taking people’s property to taking their lives. And sliding through the city’s shadows is Sonny Cole, a thug with murder on his hands and the murder of detective Stephen Louis Carella on his mind.

The Last Dance

In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone’s eyeglas*ses smashed, it’ll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him hurt so bad he’s an invalid his whole life? You want him…
killed? Let me talk to someone. It can be done. The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct is 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.

Money, Money, Money

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 woman’s body. And then there’s a trash can stuffed with a book salesman carrying a P 38 Walther and a wad of big bills. The bad bills and the dead book salesman lead to the offices of a respected publisher, Wadsworth and Dodds. This is good news for Fat Ollie, because he’s working on a police novel one written by a real cop and he’s sure it’s going to be a bestseller. Ed McBain returns to his legendary 87th Precinct with a suspenseful story of greed, conflict, and the eternal search for Money, Money, Money.

Fat Ollie’s Book

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 squeal about the dead councilman, his leather dispatch case is stolen from the back of his car and in it, the only copy of his precious manuscript. Joined by Carella and Kling from the neighboring 87th Precinct, Ollie investigates the homicide with all the exquisite crudeness, insensitivity, and determination for which he is famous. But the theft of his first novel fills Ollie with a renewed passion for old fashioned detective work. Following the exploits of one of Ed McBain’s most beloved detectives, this lively and complicated novel the fifty second in the award winning 87th Precinct series is perhaps his best book yet.

The Frumious Bandersnatch

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, and 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, while the partygoers look on helplessly, masked men drag Tamar off the stage and into a waiting speedboat. 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 the form with the fast paced dialogue and intricate plotting that have become his signature.

Hark!

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 Detective Steve Carella with puzzling messages that it is hard to tell. But as soon as a pattern emerges, the detectives of the 87th are forced to hit the books and brush up on their Shakespeare — because each new clue contains a line from one of his plays. Unless they can crack this complicated riddle and beat the Deaf Man at his own cat-and-mouse game, someone is going to end up hurt, orysomething will be stolen — or both. It’s always so hard to tell with the Deaf Man.

Ed McBain brings his most intelligent and devious criminal back to the 87th Precinct with a richly plotted and literary crime.

Fiddlers

Ed McBain’s latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn’t fit the profile. 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 out walking her dog these are the seemingly random targets 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’ prey share something more than being over fifty years of age. Now it falls to Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues in the 87th Precinct to find out what or whom the victims had in common before another body is found.

With trademark wit and sizzling dialogue, McBain unravels a mystery and examines the dreams we chase in the darkening hours before the Fiddlers have fled.

Goldilocks

When a mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida’s steamy west coast, soft hearted attorney Matthew Hope decides to defend the only person confessing to the crime, the only person without a motive.

Jack and the Beanstalk

After making a down payment on a derelict snapbean farm and promising the remaining thirty six thousand dollars in cash, young Jack McKinney is found dead, his plush condo ransacked, and attorney Matthew Hope has to find the money and the killer. NYT.

Puss in Boots

From the award winning author of Cinderella and Snow White & Rose Red comes the latest in the Matthew Hope series of police procedurals. This time the ace attorney must defend the husband of a film editor who has been charged with his wife’s murder. HC: Henry Holt.

Three Blind Mice

When the wife of a wealthy landowner is brutally raped, the police arrest three recent immigrants, who are later found murdered. The lawyer Matthew Hope is called in to defend the landowner, but soon realizes that he is involved in a situation far more complex than he or his client had imagined.

Mary, Mary

Florida criminal attorney Matthew Hope defends Mary Barton, a retired schoolteacher accused of mutilating and killing three girls and then burying them in her garden.Mystery Guild Main. Lit Guild & Doubleday Alt. Tour.

There Was A Little Girl

After Matthew Hope slips into a coma the result of a drive by shooting his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local circus an underworld of offbeat sex, drugs, blackmail, murder, and in the center of it all, There Was A Little Girl.

Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear

Lainie Commins, a freelance designer of children’s toys, hires attorney Matthew Hope for a lawsuit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland. At stake are the lucrative rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes and corrective lenses. It’s a straightforward case until Brett Toland is shot in the throat aboard his luxury yacht and Lainie becomes the chief suspect.

Transgressions

New York Times bestsellers Ed McBain, Walter Mosely, and Donald Westlake each provided a brand new, never before published tale for this unique collection of stories edited by bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.

Transgressions, Vol. 2 (With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,John Farris)

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.

The Blackboard Jungle

Evan Hunter’s novels have sold over one hundred million copies. His writing includes screenplays, literary novels, and children’s books, but he is perhaps best known for his hugely successful 87th Precinct series, penned under the pseudonym Ed McBain. The book that launched Hunter into a full time writing career and onto the bestseller lists was his first major novel, The Blackboard Jungle. Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters. Hunter’s popular and groundbreaking novel attracted much attention when it was first published, and it became a top bestseller in 1955. Set against the changing social culture of the 1950s, The Blackboard Jungle is a fascinating time capsule that brilliantly illuminates an issue still in the forefront of our minds.

Death of a Nurse

The Navy brass is satisfied when a yeoman, the prime suspect in the murder of beautiful, dedicated Navy nurse, dies, but Lieutenant Chuck Masters disagrees. Reissue.

The Gutter and the Grave

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a . 45.

Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days – only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end…

Streets of Gold

Alex Hardy is a rising young New York burglar. When he goes on a jewellery heist with two partners a one legged who*re and a veteran break in artist he finds himself falling in love with a beautiful, and honest, woman.

Doors

Alex Hardy is a rising young New York burglar. When he goes on a jewellery heist with two partners a one legged who*re and a veteran break in artist he finds himself falling in love with a beautiful, and honest, woman.

Where There’s Smoke

Ben Smoke is an ex cop, a tough guy bachelor who never had a case he couldn’t crack that is, until someone starts snatching bodies from a funeral home. This is the kind of challenge Smoke loves only this time, the case leads him on a bizarre and dangerous journey, leading to a crazy, kinky lady, a twisted killer, black magic, and ancient Egyptian rites. It’s a devilish and deadly business. This is a case that might just be too hot for Smoke to handle.

The Chisholms

A family as raw and unyielding as the soil of the Virginia farm they left behind, they pursued their dream, journeying west across the American continent. In a boundless land of unimaginable dangers, they discovered their own will for survival and forged a triumph of the human spirit.

Downtown

Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us ‘Downtown‘ in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out of towner running for his life in New York City. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan bar with a couple of hours to kill. It’s a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he’s swindled, robbed, framed for murder, and hunted down by an assassin in one of the wildest, scariest, funniest, fastest twenty four hours ever packed into one novel.

Scimitar

While the NYPD attempts to solve the murders of two British nationals found with green swords tattooed on their chests, the Feds track down a Middle East death squad in the U.S. NYT.

Criminal Conversation

‘A special occasion’ Entertainment Weekly in the celebrated career of Evan Hunter, Criminal Conversation goes deeper than most suspense fiction dares inside the intimate, sensual secrets of lovers…
In a chic apartment hidden within a workingclass neighborhood, Sarah and Andrew make love. Neither of them knows that their illicit affair is about to have explosive consequences or that their hideaway has been wired to record their every word, by a New York City prosecutor with an agenda to indict Andrew, a reputed Mafia leader. And none of them can predict where the most basic desires of the human heart passion, ambition, vengeance will lead: a life and death struggle inside the worlds of organized crime and legal warfare.

Privileged Conversation

Successful psychiatrist David Chapman decides to stay in the city and work while his wife and children vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. All is not tranquil in the city, however. A chance meeting with a Broadway dancer evokes his every erotic fantasy. But when bodies meet, when mystery and desire come together, there is no telling where the journey may end. And David finds he can’t resist or escape the most dangerous woman of his dreams.

Candyland

Evan Hunter is known for his powerful novels and screenplays. Ed McBain is known for portraying the soul of the cop. They have distinct narrative voices, but both are bestselling storytellers who have received worldwide acclaim. Now, in ‘Candyland,’ they join for the first time to write a single story a powerful novel of obsession. Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on business, he spends the empty hours of the night in a compulsive search for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to an early morning confrontation in a midtown bordello and a searing self revelation. Part I of ‘Candyland‘ is a fever pitched search for identity, seen through Benjamin’s obsessed eyes and told in classic Evan Hunter style. Part II opens in Ed McBain territory. Three detectives are discussing a homicide. The victim is a young prostitute whose path crossed Benjamin Thorpe’s the night before. Emma Boyle of the Special Victims Unit is assigned to the case. As the foggy events of the previous night come into sharper focus, Thorpe becomes an ever more possible suspect. The detailed police investigation and excruciating suspense are classic Ed McBain. Shocking, bold, and compulsively readable, ‘Candyland‘ is a groundbreaking literary event.

The Moment She Was Gone

It’s two o’clock in the morning when Andrew Gulliver gets a phone call from his mother, who tells him his twin sister, Annie, is gone. This is not the first time. Ever since she was sixteen, she’s been taking off without notice to places as far distant as Papua New Guinea, then returning unexpectedly, only to disappear yet another time, again and again and again. But this time is different. Last month, Annie got into serious trouble in Sicily and was briefly held in a mental hospital, where an Italian doctor diagnosed her as schizophrenic. Andrew’s divorced mother refuses to accept this diagnosis. Andrew himself just isn’t sure. But during the course of a desperate twelve hours in New York City, he and the Gulliver family piece together the past and cope with the present in a journey of revelation and self discovery. Recognizing the truth at last, Andrew can only hope to find his beloved sister before she harms herself or someone else. ‘The Moment She Was Gone,’ a shattering novel of a family confronting its collective secrets, marks the high point in a writing career spanning almost five decades.

Alice In Jeopardy

‘I have your children. Don’t call the police, or they’ll die.’ It’s a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn’t managed to sell a single home or collect any insurance money after her husband’s fatal boating accident. Her daughter and son’s kidnappers demand $250,000, the exact amount she’s supposed to receive from the insurance company. To complicate matters, her housekeeper has contacted the police a glaring error in judgment that puts a spotlight on the crime, the children’s lives at risk…
and Alice In Jeopardy.

Find the Feathered Serpent

A 16 year old and his companion travel by time machine to a Yucatan of more than a thousand years ago to search for the origins of the Maya god, Kukulcan.

Let’s Talk

In the late 1980s, Ed McBain got a sore throat, not unusual except his then lasted on and off for the next ten years…
Doctor after doctor attempted to treat his condition, but it got neither better nor worse and eventually became a source of some amuseme*nt to the author. However a few years ago during another routine check up the news came back that this time it was cancer. And not only that, but the only course of action would be to remove Ed’s larynx in its entirety amongst other things robbing him of his voice. This is the story of Ed’s experiences during those dark days and his recovery afterwards. It’s a tale told with sadness, regret and stunning good humour. And in the end it is a story of eventual success and happiness. But the journey to get there is littered with triumph and tragedy…

Running from Legs and Other Stories

From downtown police stations to Caribbean beach hotels, in this series of beautifully observed short stories, Ed McBain a.k.a Evan Hunter takes us with ease and style through the broad spectrum of the human condition, with the help of some memorable characters. Marriage problems, prohibition era New York, life in the circus and death in the movies Running From Legs shows that there is more to Ed McBain than the 87th Precinct. This wonderful collection brings together eleven short stories, three of which have never before been published, from the pen of a writer who has been named a ‘Master of Suspense’.

Learning to Kill

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by Evan Hunter McBain’s legal name as of 1952, Richard Marsten a pseudonym derived from the names of his three sons, or Hunt Collins in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College. Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells how and why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendary career.

Transgressions

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never before published tales from today’s very best novelists. Faeturing: ‘Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.’Hostages’ by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits and honor still die hard, even at gunpoint.’The Corn Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen year old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’The Resurrection Man’ by Sharyn McCrumb’: During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’The Things They Left Behind’ by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.’The Ransome Women’ by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects? ‘Forever’ by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.’Keller’s Adjustment’ by Lawrence Block: Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

Keller’s Adjustment; Forever

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never before published tales from today’s very best novelists. Faeturing: ‘Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.’Hostages’ by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits and honor still die hard, even at gunpoint.’The Corn Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen year old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’The Resurrection Man’ by Sharyn McCrumb’: During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’The Things They Left Behind’ by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.’The Ransome Women’ by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects? ‘Forever’ by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.’Keller’s Adjustment’ by Lawrence Block: Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories

Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often committed in a world of manor homes and formal gardens, the blood on the Persian carpet usually blue. But from the beginning, American writers worked important changes on Poe’s basic formula, especially in use of language and locale. In The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert bring together thirty three tales that illuminate both the evolution of crime fiction in the United States and America’s unique contribution to this highly popular genre. From elegant ‘locked room’ mysteries, to the hard boiled realism of the ’30s and ’40s, to the great range of styles seen today, this superb collection includes the finest crime writers, including Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, Ed McBain, Sue Grafton, and Hillerman, a best selling crime writer himself. And we sample a wide variety of styles, from tales with a strongly regional flavor, to hard edged pulp fiction, to stories with a feminist perspective. Throughout, the editors provide highly knowledgeable introductions to each piece, written from the perspective of fellow writers and reflecting a life long interest not to say love of this quintessentially American genre. Hillerman and Herbert bring us a gold mine of glorious stories that can be read for sheer pleasure, but that also illuminate how the crime story evolved from the drawing room to the back alley, and how it came to explore every corner of our nation and every facet of our lives.

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has established itself as a peerless suspense anthology. Compiled by the best selling mystery novelist Ed McBain, this year’s edition boasts nineteen outstanding tales by such masters as John Updike, Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, and Joyce Carol Oates as well as stories by rising stars such as Edgar Award winners Tom Franklin and Thomas H. Cook. The 1999 volume is a spectacular showcase for the high quality and broad diversity of the year’s finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing. ‘Keller’s Last Refuge’ by Lawrence Block, ‘Safe’ by Gary A. Braunbeck, ‘Fatherhood’ by Thomas H. Cook, ‘Wrong Time, Wrong Place’ by Jeffery Deaver, ‘Netmail’ by Brendan DuBois, ‘Redneck’ by Loren D. Estleman, ‘And Maybe the Horse Will Learn to Sing’ by Gregory Fallis, ‘Poachers’ by Tom Franklin, ‘Hitting Rufus’ by Victor Gischler, ‘Out There in the Darkness’ by Ed Gorman, ‘Survival’ by Joseph Hansen, ‘A Death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail’ by David K. Harford, ‘An Innocent Bystander’ by Gary Krist, ‘The Jailhouse Lawyer’ by Phillip M. Margolin, ‘Secret, Silent’ by Joyce Carol Oates, ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Peter Robinson, ‘Dry Whiskey’ by David B. Silva, ‘Sacrifice’ by L. L. Thrasher, ‘Bech Noir’ by John Updike

Dangerous Women

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In ‘Third Party,’ Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin ‘Rendezvous,’ Nelson DeMille’s first short story in twenty five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man’s army is no man at all back in the U.S.A. of ‘Louly and Pretty Boy,’ Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression era teenage gun moll who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than she likes knocking off filling stations and Michael Connelly’s colorful and ironic ‘Cielo Azul’ shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. These and a bevy of other very bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Lorenzo Carcaterra, Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, and S. J. Rozan in stories as irresistible as the antihero*ines that blaze through their pages.’I’m not usually given to superlatives, but Dangerous Women may be the best, most varied, and colorful mystery anthology of all time.’ Janet Evanovich’Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology.’ Robert B. Parker’Wow, what memorable dames! What terrific short stories! Dangerous Women is a winning collection.’ Susan Isaacs

Transgressions

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never before published tales from today’s very best novelists. Faeturing: ‘Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.’Hostages’ by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits and honor still die hard, even at gunpoint.’The Corn Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen year old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’The Resurrection Man’ by Sharyn McCrumb’: During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’The Things They Left Behind’ by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.’The Ransome Women’ by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects? ‘Forever’ by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.’Keller’s Adjustment’ by Lawrence Block: Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

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Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never before published tales from today’s very best novelists. Faeturing: ‘Walking Around Money’ by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.’Hostages’ by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits and honor still die hard, even at gunpoint.’The Corn Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen year old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.’Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line’ by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.’The Resurrection Man’ by Sharyn McCrumb’: During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.’Merely Hate’ by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.’The Things They Left Behind’ by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.’The Ransome Women’ by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects? ‘Forever’ by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.’Keller’s Adjustment’ by Lawrence Block: Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

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