Ed McBain

City councilman Lester Henderson has been murdered and while Detective Ollie Weeks from the 88th Precinct is investigating the scene of the crime, the only copy of the novel that he has just finished writing is stolen from the back seat of his car. With the help of Carella and Kling from the 87th Precinct, the hunt is on for a killer and a thief.

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...

In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for the 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful--especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century long vanished. Meanwhile 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he's on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent...

25 crime stories published between 1952-1957 written by Ed McBain under various pseudonyms.

A nun is strangled in the park. Detectives Carella and Brown of the 87th Precinct must find the murderer as well as locate Cookie Boy, who has changed his status of burglar to murderer.