Ed McBain
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Series
Matthew Hope mysteries volume 11
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Description
Matthew Hope has been mysteriously shot--by whom? As he lies in a hospital bed in a near-coma, his friends try to discover why his professional involvement with a small circus had murderous results. To do this they must traverse a web of sinister acrobats, kinky animal trainers, and beautiful businesswomen--one of whom is a ruthless killer.
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Matthew Hope mysteries volume 13
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Matthew Hope is at the end of his spiritual rope. He's divorced from his wife, recovering from a coma and tired of living in Calusa, Florida. When Jill Lawton hires him to find her husband, who's been seen "up north" with another woman, Hope thinks it's just another failed marriage ... until a body washes up on the beach with no face and Jack Lawton's driver's license in his pocket.
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Pub. Date
1991
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Emma Bowles wife of successful businessman Martin Bowlessuddenly finds her life in danger. Her husband hires anout-of-town detective Denker to protect her. After two near fatal accidents she goes to the police and the att-entions of Steve Carella and his partner Meyer.
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 45
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[1993]
Description
Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct faces the precinct's greatest foe, the Deaf Man, when the criminal returns to a life of crime in order to murder the city's graffiti artists.
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 47
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Romance and drama capture police detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th Precinct in McBain's Manhattan clone, Isola City. An actress in a play about an actress who gets stabbed is stabbed. Her superficial wound draws little blood but enough media attention, perhaps, to save the drama from the opening-night closing its director expects. The play is titled Romance, a subject very much the focus of Kling's personal life as he doggedly pursues another...
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 42
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"Who butchered a troubled young priest in his own church? Did an overzealous gang of neighborhood Satanists have a hand in the the bloody business? Or were there even darker doings behind the ornate closed doors of St. Catherine's? In a parish torn by sin, violence, drugs, racial tension and poverty, the cops of the 87th Precinct must throw the first stone -- and hope it makes ripples in a bizarre and baffling case that will test their faith, their...
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 50
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The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby apartment in the 87th Precinct leads detectives Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks to the discovery of an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug, and a killer.
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 49
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A nun is murdered in New York City and an autopsy determines she had breast implants. Detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown discover that Sister Mary Vincent led a double life.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Since her husband Eddie's death in a boating accident eight months ago, Alice Glendenning has struggled to make ends meet while waiting for the insurance company to pay up. When Alice takes a job as a real estate agent, she makes a new friend, Charlie Hobbs from whom she is supposed to try to buy his waterfront land for a developer. Things quickly become a nightmare for Alice when her two children, Ashley and Jamie, aren't on the school bus home one...
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Matthew Hope mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Toy designer Lainie Commins sues her boss for patent infringement, claiming he stole her cross-eyed bear. When the man is killed aboard his yacht in Florida, Lainie is accused of murder. Lawyer Mathew Hope takes up her defense.
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 40
Pub. Date
c1987
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On Halloween the quiet of the early evening is shattered by a series of sudden, violent incidents which take place during a shift at the 87th Precinct.
15) Nocturne
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Series
87th Precinct mysteries volume 48
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspaper around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her bady and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless...
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Series
87th Precinct volume 48
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Eighty-seventh precinct detectives Carella and Hawes's investigation of the murder of Svetlana Dyalovich, a little old woman who once enjoyed international fame as a singer, leads them to the realization that the killer had more than robbery on his mind.