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Ed McBain

    Deze Amerikaanse auteur, die ook schreef als Evan Hunter, verwierf grote bekendheid onder het pseudoniem Ed McBain, waarmee hij een belangrijke plaats in de misdaadliteratuur veroverde. Zijn werk wordt geprezen om zijn rauwe realisme en authentieke weergave van politiewerk. McBain verkende op meesterlijke wijze de complexiteit van de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke kwesties in zijn verhalen. Zijn kenmerkende stijl en meeslepende vertelkunst hebben zijn nalatenschap als een sleutelfiguur in het genre gevestigd.

    Ed McBain
    Fuzz
    Jigsaw
    Doll
    Ten Plus One
    Let´s hear it for the Deaf Man
    Verleid
    • Verleid

      • 238bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Een psychiater raakt verwikkeld in een liefdesaffaire met een jonge danseres die wordt bedreigd door een psychopaat.

      Verleid
    • First it was the strange phone calls, then the bizarre photographs. The boys of the 87th Precinct knew their arch nemesis, The Deaf Man, was back in town. Even a gruesome crucifixion and a cat burglar who leaves live kittens as his calling card could not keep Carella, Ling, Hawes, and Brown from the torment of the Deaf Man's riddles. And time was running out.

      Let´s hear it for the Deaf Man
    • A crime novel first published in 1964, in which Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct searches for a sniper who is killing innocent victims.

      Ten Plus One
    • 4,5(415)Tarief

      A blonde woman, a living doll, is found slashed to death. Steve Carella wants Bert King on the case, a belligerent cop. When he goes missing, presumed dead, the officers of the 87th Precinct go all out to find the truth.

      Doll
    • 4,5(167)Tarief

      A murder mystery from the 87TH PRECINCT series, first published in 1972, in which a detective discovers that the odd-shaped snapshot found clutched in a dead man's hand is a piece of deadly puzzle worth a suitcase of stolen cash.

      Jigsaw
    • Fuzz

      An 87th Precinct Mystery

      • 204bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      4,4(115)Tarief

      For almost 50 years, fans of crime fiction have followed the boys of the 87th Precinct, a fictional urban police department precinct created by the novelist Evan Hunter, writing under the pseudonym Ed McBain.

      Fuzz
    • Eight Black Horses

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      4,4(105)Tarief

      Sees the return of the Deaf Man - taunting the boys of the 87th Precinct with enigmatic messages and ill deeds, specially for Christmas. The author also wrote "Lightning".

      Eight Black Horses
    • Mischief

      • 346bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      4,4(136)Tarief

      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

      Mischief
    • With its roots in the American private-detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private-eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are thirty of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye. The characters in this collection range from the tough, cynical, hard-drinking Philip Marlowe type to hard-hitting female sleuths and the one-armed intellectual Dan Fortune. This collection features old favorites and new contributions from masters of the genre, past and present, including Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Michael Collins, Ed McBain, William Campbell Gault, and many more.

      The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories
    • Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!

      • 201bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      4,4(228)Tarief

      There are 186 patrolmen and a handful of detectives in the 87th Precinct, but it's never quite enough. Because between petty crimes and major felonies, between crimes of hate and crimes of passion, the city never sleeps -- and for these cops, a day never ends... The night shift has a murdered go-go dancer, a firebombed black church, a house full of ghosts, and a mother trying to get her twenty-two year-old to come home. The day shift: a naked hippie lying smashed on the concrete, two murderous armed robbers in Halloween masks, and a man beaten senseless by four guys using sawed-off broom handles. Altogether, it's a day in the life. But for a certain cop in the 87th Precinct, it could just be his last...

      Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!