Jill Lawton wants Matthew Hope to find her husband, Jack. Her tale is commonplace: a middle-aged husband goes north to look for work, finds another woman, doesn't come back. The embittered wife wants out - with alimony. It's the kind of manhunt Hope's associates Chambers, Kiley, & Lamb can normally [...]

Irritating though he was, Lester Henderson had it all when he strode up to rehearse his keynote address in the darkness of a downtown theatre. Widely tipped to be the next mayor and possessing a nice line in catalogue-casual daywear, Henderson stood four-square facing his glorious future. But five s[...]

Cassandra Lee Ridley is an ex-airforce pilot who now scrapes a living flying low-level contraband over the border to Mexico. But when she gets offered a $200,000 contract to fly what she assumes are drugs, she takes a deep breath and agrees to do it. The job goes perfectly, the deliveries are made a[...]

Gloria Stanford was very sexy, very rich and very, very dead. Found in her plush, city apartment, she had been shot twice in the heart. All her credit cards and ID were gone but apart from that there seemed no motive at all. It's only when the detective-in-charge, Steve Carella, starts to receive bi[...]

A third collection of previously unpublished novellas includes pieces by some of today's top writers and features such works as Ed McBain's "Merely Hate," "Walking the Line" by Walter Mosley, and Donald E. Westlake's "Walking Around Money," featuring his most famous protagonist, hapless criminal Joh[...]

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 ability to make every character believable?which few writers these days can do.? ? Assoc[...]

When a wealthy businessman is faced with a kidnapping, the ransom could ruin his biggest deal ever ? unless Detective Steve Carella can find the culprits before the kidnapping turns to murder. McBain has the ability to make every character believable ? which few writers these days can do.? ? Associa[...]

The murder of a young mistress in a penthouse apartment has Detectives Carella and Brown investigating a family with many motives?even as an unrelated murder impacts Carella personally. McBain has the ability to make every character believable ? which few writers these days can do.? ? Associated Pre[...]

The fiftieth novel in the 87th Precinct series, Ed McBain returns to Isola, where detectives Meyer Meyer and Steve Carella investigate a murder which leads them to the seedy strip clubs and bright lights of the theater district.
In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want so[...]

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 bad. But even when detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling fol[...]