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  • Bibliography:
    121 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1956
  • Latest Book:
    October 2016
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Ed McBain was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, and received an Edgar Award nomination for his novel Money, Money, Money. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in his outstanding 87th Precinct series to the bestselling novels The Blackboard Jungle and Criminal Conversation, written under his own name, Evan Hunter.

Full Series List in Order

An 87th Precinct Novel

1 - Cop Hater (1956)
2 - The Mugger (1956)
3 - The Pusher (1956)
4 - The Con Man (1957)
5 - Killer's Choice (1957)
6 - Killer's Payoff (1958)
7 - Killer's Wedge (1958)
8 - Lady Killer (1958)
9 - Til Death (1959)
10 - King's Ransom (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 (1964)
19 - He Who Hesitates (1965)
20 - Doll (1965)
21 - Eighty Million Eyes (1966)
22 - Fuzz (1968)
23 - Shotgun (1969)
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 (1972)
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 (May-1980)
35 - Heat (1981)
36 - Ice (Mar-1983)
37 - Lightning (Jul-1985)
38 - Eight Black Horses (Jul-1985)
39 - Poison (Feb-1987)
40 - Tricks (Oct-1987)
41 - Lullaby (Jan-1989)
42 - Vespers (Dec-1989)
43 - Widows (Jan-1991)
44 - Kiss (Feb-1992)
45 - Mischief (Aug-1993)
46 - And All Through the House (Nov-1994)
47 - Romance (Mar-1996)
48 - Nocturne (May-1997)
49 - The Big Bad City (Jan-1999)
50 - The Last Dance (Nov-1999)
51 - Money, Money, Money (Aug-2001)
52 - Fat Ollie's Book (Jan-2003)
53 - The Frumious Bandersnatch (Jan-2004)
54 - Hark! (Aug-2004)
55 - Fiddlers (Sep-2005)

A Matthew Hope Novel

1 - Goldilocks (1977)
2 - Rumpelstiltskin (Jul-1981)
3 - Beauty and the Beast (Mar-1983)
4 - Jack and the Beanstalk (Apr-1984)
5 - Snow White and Rose Red (1985)
6 - Cinderella (Apr-1986)
7 - Puss in Boots (Jul-1987)
8 - The House That Jack Built (Jul-1988)
9 - Three Blind Mice (1990)
10 - Mary, Mary (1993)
11 - There Was a Little Girl (Dec-1994)
12 - Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (Jun-1996)
13 - The Last Best Hope (Mar-1998)

The Women of the 87th Precinct

1 - McBain's Ladies (Jun-1988)
2 - McBain's Ladies Too (May-1989)

Book List in Order: 121 titles



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    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 th...



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    DANGER ON DARK NIGHTS This mugger was special. He preyed only on women. He waited in the darkness, coming from behind to snatch their purses. Then he punched his victims and told them not to scream. As the women reeled with pain and fear, he bowe...



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    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 basement. The rope around his neck suggested a clear case of suicide -- until the autopsy r...



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    When a murdered woman is pulled from the river, Detective Steve Carella must follow a single clue--a strange tatoo on the dead woman's hand--in order to capture the elusive con man who may be responsible for the murder...



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    A pretty redhead, Annie Boone lay facedown on a liquor store floor, surrounded by broken bottles and blood--and plugged by four bullets from a small caliber gun. Detective Roger Havilland lay faceup in a grocery store window--his jugular sliced open ...



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    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 m...



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    A woman holds the entire 87th Precinct hostage with a homemade bomb and loaded handgun, but her only real target is none other than Detective Steve Carella.

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    "I WILL KILL THE LADY TONIGHT AT 8. WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?" That's what the letter read. Was she that new hooker in town, the one who let her clients rape her like a lady? Or Lady Jay Astor, the sensual, bawdy songstress, who belted out the porno ...



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    When the son of wealthy Douglas King's chauffeur is kidnapped and the ransom for the boy could ruin King's biggest business deal ever, King is faced with a difficult choice and the detectives of the 87th Precinct race against time to rescue the boy. ...






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    DEATH STALKED THE GROOM And the groom was about to marry Steve Carella's sister. So Tommy and Angela's wedding party suddenly became a deadly game of hide-and-seek for Steve and the boys of the 87th. Tommy was "it" and Steve had only a few precious ...



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    A killer in the 87th Precinct is leaving behind severed hands as calling cards, putting Detectives Carella and Hawes back on the streets to end this murderous, gruesome streak.

    “Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh m...



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    When merchants all over town start receiving anonymous threats, the only things the boys of the Eighty-Seventh Precinct have to go on is a character called the "deaf man" and the ominous possibility that the threats are real. Reissue....



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    The eyes of the neighborhood are on the detectives of the 87th and the criminal who challenged them as the city simmers with escalating gang violence.

    “The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-ce...



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    A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe first thing Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling saw was four bodies soaked in blood. Then Kling realized that one of those crumpled on the bookshop floor was Claire Townsend, his fiancie! And that's when the...



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    Three nerve-racking stories from bestselling author Ed McBain put detectives from the 87th Precinct on the trail of different killers who take the lives of a rich woman, a rabbi, and a ski instructor.

    “McBain forces us to think twice a...



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    A seemingly clear-cut suicide pact between two lovers becomes suspicious when the woman's insurance-recipient mother, her jealous husband, and the man's protesting brother are unveiled, except that the precinct is unable to prove that murder even too...



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    Here is the 87th Precinct in all its gritty, glory--rough cops, arrogant criminals and the unrelenting pressure of a city of murder and deceit. An expanded republishing program provides the best of the McBain backlist repackaged. Reissue....



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    Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, and the boys of the 87th Precinct know where, when, and how George Lasser died, but they don't have a clue as to who had "given him the ax." And when the mad marauder strikes again, it's time to take the ax to the grindst...







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    "DON'T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY," HE SAID. "What way?" "As if... you're afraid of me all at once." "Don't be silly. Why should I be afraid of you?" "You have no reason to..." "Right," she agreed. "You could strangle me or drown me or beat me to death ...



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    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. Reprint....



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    Police hunt for a perp who’s picking off politicians in this “triumph” (Chicago Sun-Times).   The detectives of the 87th Precinct have gotten a call threatening the life of the city’s parks commissioner unless a five-thousand-dollar rans...



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    With Walter Damascus, a psychopath who likes his women well-off, well-built, and dead, loose on the city, Detective Carella and the investigating team of the 87th Precinct must work overtime to find him before he can take out his next victim. Reprint...



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    Detective Arthur Brown discovers that the odd-shaped snapshot found clutched in the dead man's hand holds a clue to a deadly puzzle worth a suitcase of stolen cash, the haul from a six-year-old bank robbery. Reprint....



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    Murders, muggings, and assaults…just a routine night and day in the 87th Precinct until one of their own is shot, sending every available detective on the hunt to bring down the gunman.

    “McBain forces us to think twice about every...



  • 'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...



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    “You’ll have to speak a little louder,” the voice said. “I’m a little hard of hearing.”

    Between a highly successful cat burglar and a hippie crucifixion, the 87th Precinct definitely doesn’t need the...



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    Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: his wife’s body with a knife buried in it. Though he shamelessly cops to being happy she’s dead, his alibi is airtight and all signs point to a burglary gone ...



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    Six brutalized bodies lie at the bottom of a ditch within the boundaries of the 87th Precinct. Six nameless corpses-three men, two women, one baby ... all dead. The city's most gruesome mass murder in years sends the dedicated cops of the 87th racing...



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    Investigating the murder of a warehouse watchman, the cops of the 87th Precinct face a disturbing outbreak in cash-related crimes that link a prostitute's death, a warehouse fire, and a slum redevelopment deal. Reprint....



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    1974 novel by Evan Hunter. Excerpts of the book originally were published by Playboy Magazine. It is the story from the perspective of an Italian immigrant who came to America to find a better life. The main character Ignazio Di Palermo is very prett...



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    A killer is out for blood, and it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to bring him in -- but a shocking surprise awaits when a survivor fingers the suspect in a lineup.

    “McBain has the ability to make every character believable -- which few w...



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    When Detective Kling’s blushing bride is nabbed from their honeymoon suite, the men of the 87th Precinct are out to help one of their own.

    “Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and...





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    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. Reprint....



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    In the wake of the double homicide of a blind couple, the Eighty-Seventh Precinct detectives find their only clue in a nightmare that one of the victims, a Vietnam veteran, had experienced some ten years earlier. Reprint....



  • A man brings his daughter to Martha’s Vineyard to uncover the truth about her mother’s death in this suspense novel by master of crime fiction Ed McBain.   For the first time since their daughter was born, Zachary and Mary Blake are taking a...








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    When a calypso singer and a prostitute are murdered with the same gun, Detectives Carella and Meyer descend into the murky world of sex and sadism to find a killer on the loose.

    “Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysterie...



  • 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 sto...



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    While he investigates a questionable suicide, Detective Bert Kling begins to buckle under from the stresses of his personal life--he is afraid his wife is having an affair and he is being hunted by a psychopathic ex-convict...



  • She's a rock star of the Sixties, hungry for a comeback. He's a divorced lawyer working to put his own life back together. Their one-night stand is brief but torrid. When the next day, she is found brutally murdered and her six-year-old daughter i...



  • When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs." Reprint....



  • The path to the truth is as slippery as ice--in a city whose heart is just as cold. The cops of this precinct know that anyone can be a victim. Anyone can be a perp. And killers keep killing until you put them on... Once she'd been a dancer. Now s...



  • A collection of twenty short stories from the legendary crime author and creator of the 87th Precinct series.Ed McBain was one of the most admired and prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. His long-running 87th Precinct series helped defin...



  • August in West Florida, a little bit of hell on earth. Jack McKinney, looking barely old enough to shave, stood in the swelter of Matthew Hope's Calusa County law office, spilling out a wide-eyed tale about wanting to buy a snap-bean farm. And he had...



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    Attorney Matthew Hope takes on the case of beautiful heiress Sarah Whitaker, who is fighting court-ordered and family-supported commitment as a paranoid schizophrenic, and enters into a world of delusion and murder...



  • There was a dead body. Or two. They were Christmas greetings from the Deaf Man, the master criminal who was back with deadly plans in mind for the 87th Precinct. Detectives Kling, Carella and Meyer knew the messages were clues to where the Deaf Man w...






  • Two perps—one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims—test the limits of the 87th Precinct’s detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city’s streets.

    “McBain has the abi...



  • New York Police Detective Reardon uncovers the links connecting the murder of a Little Italy restaurateur, the financial manipulations of a Madison Avenue art dealer, and the fluctuations in the international markets for crude oil, fine art, and the ...



  • Private detective Otto Samalson sees the tail -- a black Toronado he can’t shake. One dark window rolls down, exposing the barrel of a gun, and the detective is dead.

    Otto had already known his days were numbered and said as much to his f...



  • Her former lovers are dying one by one, and beautiful Marilyn Hollis is a top suspect. Smitten Detective Willis tries to believe in her innocence, until he begins to have his doubts.

    “The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary acc...



  • Prudence Ann Markham was as careful as her name. Before heading out to her car in the deserted parking lot she packed up the film she'd been editing, checked the studio gear, set the alarm, and locked the outer door. It was 10:40 P.M.--but Prudence A...



  • On Halloween night in the 87th Precinct, a liquor store owner is shot, by costumed children, a headless torso is discovered, and Detective First Class Eileen Burke, disguised as a hooker, hopes to trap a serial killer...



  • A cautious New York burglar risks his neck for the score of a lifetime in this rollicking thriller by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   Alex Hardy is the finest thief in New York City. A crib burglar, he robs apartments -- ne...



  • Small-time liquor store robber Colley Donato gets reclassified on his thirteenth job by killing a policeman, and spends twenty-four hours dodging, hiding, conning, improvising, and remembering the locations and stages of his exhilarating acquisition ...



  • The celebrated, award-winning novelist presents a retrospective collection of scenes from the lives of the policewomen of his famed 87th Precinct and of the women in the lives of the precinct's policemen...



  • When Ralph, a loving older brother upset by his brother's gay lifestyle, is accused of his murder and the evidence points to his guilt, Matthew Hope must work with a few fleeting but crucial clues to prove Ralph's innocence...



  • A babysitter is viciously raped and murdered, her beautiful infant ward, smothered to death, an 87th Precint Detectives Meyer and Carella must locate the killer while gang warfare complicates their search...





  • From the author of the classic 87th Precinct police procedurals comes a new collection devoted to his fictional women ... savvy, sexy, and very bad. Main's Ladies Too puts the spotlight on the femmes fatales--the ladies who make life rough for the co...



  • Now available for the first time in paperback--the latest riveting novel in the bestselling 87th Precinct series. The hardcover of Vespers has sold almost twice as many copies as McBain's previous hardcover releases. This paperback edition will conta...



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    The brutal rape of the wife of a wealthy landowner leads to the arrest of three recent Vietnamese immigrants. When they are found murdered and viciously mutilated, the situation reveals itself to be far more complex and explosive than first imagined....



  • A vacationing police detective stumbles upon a human-trafficking ring that threatens his fiancée in this thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series.   Phil Colby is just cruising into Sullivan’s Corners when the motorcycle cop flags h...



  • The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared ...



  • The lives of two New York toughs spin out of control when a routine burglary spirals into a cop killing in this thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series.   Robbing the cars is Jobbo’s idea. Frankie just goes along because it’s too ...



  • When Michael Barnes's wallet and rental car are stolen in New York City, the Florida orange grower unwittingly becomes entangled in a brutal world where he is framed for murder and must run from both the mob and the police. Reprint....



  • With Kiss, the Grand Master of police procedurals does himself one better. As before, the protagonist of this new story is the whole squad room of the 87th Precinct, the suspense is gripping, the complex, interwoven tale of cops, suspects, and vic...



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    When the bodies of three young girls are unearthed in Mary Barton’s garden, the retired Florida schoolteacher insists she didn’t do it. But an eyewitness -- the woman next door -- has a different story: she swears she saw “Mary, Mary quite c...



  • Investigating a series of cryptic murders in the worst section of the city, detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct uncovers the trail of the returned Deaf Man, an elusive stalker of vandals and other mischievous outlaws. Reprint....




  • 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 fili...



  • There was a little girl who had a little girl who had a little girl. The only man who can. unravel that riddle is lying in a Florida hospital, battling for his life after being gunned down outside a Calusa bar. Now Matthew Hope's best friends are ...



  • A hurricane is bearing down on South Florida, as is a storm of fanaticism and violence. Though the small Florida Key known as Ocho Puerto lies in the path of destruction, ground zero is some 100s mile to its south. It's all part of a scheme engineere...



  • Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....



  • THE 87th PRECINCT... is where criminals and cops share secrets, tricks, and truths, where strangers meet, fall in love, and sometimes kill. ROMANCE... is a would-be hit play about an actress in a hit play pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. Until...



  • 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...




  • 87TH PRECINCT They hear the music of the streets. The breaking glass and the breaking hearts. They whistle tunes from twenty years ago, and follow a haunting melody of lies, truths, and clues... Someone played a little night music. What remained ...



  • 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 da...




  • As detective Katie Logan investigates an odd case in which sixteen-year-old Rebecca Patton, a student driver, runs down and kills a woman during a driving lesson, she discovers that the case may be more sinister than it appears when it turns out the ...



  • In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind. Take this week's tabloids: the face of a dead girl is splashed across the...





  • In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses 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....



  • A young black man is framed by the police for a murder he didn’t commit in this gritty New York crime story from the author of the 87th Precinct series.   Johnny Lane is outside the Apollo when he sees Luis, and rage floods his veins. Every to...



  • 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...



  • It slips through the hands of a lady Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and two shady Secret Service agents. Detectives Steve Carella and Fat Ollie Weeks are unwrapping the mysteries behind the body that was fed to...



  • 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,...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • Since her husband Eddie's tragic death in a boating accident eight months ago, thirty-four-year-old Alice Glendenning has struggled to maintain a normal life for her two children, Ashley and Jamie. To help make ends meet while she waits for the insur...



  • 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:



  • Ed McBain’s last 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 pr...



  • 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 o...



  • A “gripping” collection of crime stories from the author of the acclaimed 87th Precinct novels (People).   Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct is “perhaps the finest police procedural series of all time” (Publishers Weekly). But before he turned...



  • 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 Ran...



  • 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...






  • A walk on the wild side! In this series of collections of gritty Noir and Hardboiled stories, you’ll find some of the best writers of the craft writing in their prime. The following stories are included in this first volume of Masters of Noir: IDEN...



  • Each year, for the past seventeen years, Otto Penzler, owner of the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, has commissioned an original story by a leading mystery writer. The requirements were that it be a mystery/ crime/suspense story, that...



  • Matt Cordell was on his way down. Since he lost his license as a detective for attacking his wife and her lover, his goal is seeking oblivion with a bottle. But P. I. work came to him in spite of himself. His buddy's sister-in-law is pregnant and he ...



  • He’d been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man’s life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singe...



  • When a Man’s Partner is Killed, He’s Supposed to Do Something About It.  Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbe...



  • An assistant district attorney launches a one-man crusade against the Mafia in this legal thriller from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   The call comes from Narcotics, Manhattan South. A low-level drug dealer just got caught...



  • An ad executive meets two beautiful -- and dangerous -- sisters in this sexually charged thriller from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   To escape the daily grind, Steve Richmond leaves his advertising firm for a vacation on ...



  • The author of the 87th Precinct series presents a riotous story of the gamblers, mobsters, and other colorful characters who hang around Aqueduct Racetrack.   Andrew Mullaney has the money to get to Aqueduct Racetrack, but nothing to bet once he...



  • Legendary author of the 87th Precinct series Ed McBain presents six hardboiled detective stories starring Curt Cannon, one of the toughest sleuths ever created.   Private detective Curt Cannon has lost his wife, his license, and his will to live...



  • The author of the 87th Precinct series presents the story that inspired The Blackboard Jungle and eleven other tales of tough, troubled kids on the city streets.   Inside the concrete walls of Bernard High, brutal young men scrap for survival, f...



  • A racially charged murder pushes a mild-mannered district attorney to the brink in this gritty legal thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series.   After an intense heat wave, storms threaten to blanket New York City, and three boys walk ...



  • A visiting nurse is found murdered aboard a US Navy destroyer in this gripping mystery from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   When Claire Cole meets a sailor at the hospital, he’s just another enlisted man in need of her ca...



  • An assassin descends on a college town to commit a political murder in this dystopian thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ed McBain.   As soon as he arrives, Sam Eisler can see the train station is too busy. His clients would lik...



  • The author of the 87th Precinct series presents an electrically charged thriller about a psychiatrist and a dancer -- and the passion that may destroy them both.   On his lunch break, David, a mild-mannered therapist, takes a walk in Central Par...



  • A sleeper agent travels cross-country to assassinate the president in this terrifying political thriller from the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   Sonny Hemkar is a doctor in a rough part of Los Angeles, a resident whose days an...



  • A struggle for control of a shoe company becomes a battle between good and evil in this corporate thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series.   For three generations, footwear company Julian Kahn has been synonymous with high fashion. An...



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    Novellas from Transgressions by Walter Mosley and Joyce Carol Oates
    “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 ...



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    Novellas from Transgressions by Jeffery Deaver and Sharyn McCrumb
    “Forever” by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop -- a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples commit suicide one right aft...



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    Novellas from Transgressions by Ed McBain, Anne Perry and Donald E. Westlake
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ed McBain has published 121 books.

Ed McBain does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Criminal Conversation, was published in October 2016.

The first book by Ed McBain, Cop Hater, was published in January 1956.

Yes. Ed McBain has 3 series.