

Ghosts
Author: Ed McBain
Series: 87th Precinct #1
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/02/2012
Categories: Fiction, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural
Author: Ed McBain
Series: 87th Precinct #1
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/02/2012
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.
A rec from my great GR pal, Craig :) Let me ask you on a dinner in Mr. McBain’s Greasy Spoon, on a strange, a bit creepy, interesting date. For the appetizers you’ll get some in a nice (view spoiler)[The ghost scene made me uncertain as it seemed not real, the thing is, if it was really a ghost house so it must have (hide spoiler)]......more
This is another very entertaining entry in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series and one of several through the years that take place during the holiday season. As Christmas approaches, Steve Carella is called to the scene of a murder. A woman, on her way home from work, stops by the grocery store and is......more
An 87th Precinct book with a supernatural twist. Carmella is the lead character with Hawes in support and seemingly appraising all the women in the investigation as they solve 3 murders......more
Serviceable entry in the series made slightly remarkable by a turn to the supernatural. I feel like this was a trope throughout the 70s and 80s that non-supernatural cop shows would occasionally put out an episode with a sympathetic medium and leave unresolved whether or not vampires are real or som......more
I was pretty sure I'd read everything McBain ever wrote, but I somehow missed this 1980 book. It's everything we expect from McBain: intriguing plot, vivid sense of place, well-developed and beloved characters, and a good dash of wry humor. He just instinctively knows how to blend these elements toge......more