

Ax
Author: Ed McBain
Series: 87th Precinct #1
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/26/2012
Categories: Fiction, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural
Author: Ed McBain
Series: 87th Precinct #1
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/26/2012
Categories: Fiction, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural
Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.
On a bitterly cold January afternoon, the detectives of the 87th precinct are called to the basement of an apartment building where the building super is Mr. George Lasser. Lasser is eighty-six years old and a veteran of the Spanish American War. Lasser managed to survive the encounter with the Span......more
Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes are out in a bitterly cold January trying to catch an Ax murderer. The two cops struggle to find any promising leads. Carella turns to his best snitch Danny Gimp which gives McBain a chance to firm up the background for one of the bit part players in Isola. McBain keep......more