From the internationally admired creator of the 87th Precinct series come these tales featuring p...

Ed McBain's last installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial...

All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea... But as any 'real' writer could tell yo...

The kidnapping was audacious, and there were plenty of witnesses... But no one attending the dazz...

It is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless...

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collect...

In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has established itself as a peerless su...

All the boys at the 87th Precinct had been kidding Bert Kling about kidnapping the bride on her w...

The summer heat is sweltering. Tempers are rising. When the watchman in a warehouse filled with i...

Lady, Lady, I Did It!

Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in h...

Another Part of the City

The wedding day of Detective Steve Carella's sister Angela should be the most romantic, special d...

Sadie When She Died

When a beautiful young woman is found murdered in a lush penthouse apartment, the only clues are ...

Poison

In the middle of a stifling heat wave, why would an artist intent on committing suicide turn his ...

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was ...

Eight Black Horses

Ghosts

Another novel in the greatest of all post-war American crime series.Cassandra Lee Ridley is an ex...

Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear

Jimmy Harris lost his eyesight in Vietnam. But it was on a cold city street that he lost his life...

A nanny will go to any length to save a kidnapped Mafia prince in this madcap mobster farce by th...

An electrifying 87th Precinct mystery. Pepe Miranda--murderer, crook, and two-bit hero of the str...

Cinquecentomila dollari in cambio della vita di un bambino. Nessun genitore respingerebbe la rich...

For the cops in the 87th Precinct, the day never ends. The night shift has a murdered go-go dance...

A Isola, il quartiere della città immaginaria che per McBain simboleggia New York, fa un caldo d'...

Three different stories, one prolific author.

Someone killed Annie Boone, but was she an innocent victim or the target of a hit? As Detectives ...

Kiss

Cop Hater

Ax

Snow White and Rose Red

The Heckler

Tricks

Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

Six victims. Same gun. No link. The final 87th Precinct novel from the master...It started with t...

Lightning

Puss in Boots

He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting...

Ten Plus One

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.

Calypso

Beauty and the Beast

Snow whips through the city's streets like lethal daggers when a young actress leaves the theater...

Killer's Payoff

It is the new year, and detectives Meyer and Carella are faced with the most heinous of crimes. A...