A con man taking an old woman's money, a cheater tricking businessmen out of thousands, and a lady-killer. If the cops know every game he plays, why are dead bodies still being found on the shore?

Detective Hawes is on the trail of the man who wrote he was going to kill the lady at eight that night.

During the heat of an Indian summer, a quadruple homicide that includes among its victimes the fiancee of an 87th Precinct detective sets off a desperate, vendetta-like hunt for the killer.

The detectives of the 87th Precinct are confronted with a call - clearly a crank call - that threatens the life of the city's parks commissioner unless a ransom of $5,000 is paid. The deadline soon passes and the parks commissioner is shot in the head as he leaves a rock concert. Soon, another anonymous warning follows and the deputy mayor is blown up in his Cadillac. The next target is the young, charismatic Kennedy-esque mayor who is on the hit...

One night. One shift. No rest. Featuring the 87th Precinct's entire cast of characters, this Halloween takes them into the darkest corners of depravity the city has to offer. And sometimes, surviving is the greatest treat of them all. From a liquor store hold-up ending with a dead owner and four costumed 'kids' making off with the money to the pieces of a man showing up around the city, the Day of the Dead is turning the streets into a carnival of...

There are a lot of unspeakable things that happen in the big city, and the murder of St. Catherine's Father Birney is one of them. For Detectives Carella and Hawes of the 87th Precinct, finding the killer means taking a journey into the darkest corners of the city's soul. The satanic cult near St. Catherine's parish is the obvious first suspect, but not necessarily the right one. As the detectives investigate the priest's life, they uncover blackmail,...

An 87th Precinct novel -- Certain that someone is trying to kill her, Emma Bowles turns to another killer for protection, and only a dedicated cop trapped in a defective legal system can save her.

The hanging death of an old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing much, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug and...

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...

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...