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2) The con man
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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?
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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...
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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,...
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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...
12) He who hesitates
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Warner Books
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1996, ©1965
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English
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"A craftsman visiting the city struggles to contact the 87th Precinct with details of a former lover s sudden death when there s another beauty distracting him. The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century. Pete Hamill, Newsday McBain has the ability to make every character believable which few writers these days can do"--Associated Press.
15) Lady killer
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Detective Hawes is on the trail of the man who wrote he was going to kill the lady at eight that night.
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87th precinct mystery volume 9
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2011, ©1959
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English
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Hours before his sister's wedding, Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct learns that a killer is stalking the groom, and in order to learn the would-be murderer's identity, Steve must search through hundreds of wedding guests.
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