Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gun...

The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things c...

The only person Detective Bert Kling cares about in this world is his fiancée, Claire Townsend. A...

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...

Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: his wife's body w...

The brilliant new 87th precinct novel from one of crime's enduring legends...Gloria Stanford was ...

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

When one of your ex-boyfriends dies of poisoning, it is an unfortunate circumstance, possibly a s...

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 ...

Finding a dead body was not unusual for an autumn night in the 87th Precinct. But this young woma...

A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home--at least not al...

'Ed McBain effectively invented the police procedural' Observer'The McBain books are among the ve...

Shot twice. Plummeted into cardiac arrest. Pulled from the depths of a nasty coma. Attorney Matth...

Three Blind Mice

It's a cold November when James Harris takes his dog, Stanley, for their usual rounds of panhandl...

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

'Kill me if you can.'

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

With his sizzling dialogue and drop-dead surprises, Ed McBain has elevated the crime novel into f...

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

Angela, la sorella del detective Steve Carella, sta per sposare Tommy Giordano. Il giorno previst...

Three different stories, one prolific author.

Annie Boone is dead. She was shot four times in the chest, pieces of the liquor store's windows s...

Emma Bowles, wife of successful businessman Martin Bowles, discovers that her life is in danger. ...

As a cop with the city's famed 87th Precinct, Steve Carella has seen it all. Or so he thinks. Bec...

Eighty-six-year-old George Lasser was the superintendent of a building in the 87th Precinct until...

Sarah Whittaker is a green-eyed beauty with a love for Danny Kaye and white knights. Lawyer Matth...

With crooks to cuff and pimps to put behind bars, detectives Carella and Meyer of the 87th Precin...

One night. One shift. No rest. Featuring the 87th Precinct's entire cast of characters, this Hall...

He dresses in black and stalks the streets of the 87th Precinct. He is a shadow, always searching...

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

The city can be a strange place, full of odd sights. Sometimes chilling sights. But nothing could...

A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back....

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

When Anthony Forrest walked out of the office building, the only thoughts on his mind were of an ...

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

A calypso singer fresh off a gig walks home in a downpour, when shots tear through his head like ...

Matthew Hope is a divorce lawyer in the town of Calusa, Florida, where the Gulf waters are warm a...

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

It's like an old-time gangster movie: a speeding car, a blazing gun... and suddenly a guy walking...

Matthew Hope has been shot - taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa's seediest neighborhood. ...

It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Roman...

The brand new 87th Precinct Novel from the master himself - Ed McBain.Diva disappeared . . . This...

New Year's Day brings the dawn of a new year and the hope of better days to come. But for a coupl...

Stan Gifford is the ultimate comedian. A pro through and through, when Stan's act dies, so does h...