Tricks, Ed McBain
Tricks, Ed McBain
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Tricks

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2012

Synopsis

One night. One shift. No rest. Featuring the 87th Precinct’s entire cast of characters, this Halloween takes them into the darkest corners of depravity the city has to offer. And sometimes, surviving is the greatest treat of them all.From a liquor store hold-up ending with a dead owner and four costumed “kids” making off with the money to the pieces of a man showing up around the city, the Day of the Dead is turning the streets into a carnival of violence and murder. Meanwhile, a magician disappears in a stunning final act, and Detective First Class Eileen Burke poses as a hooker to lure in a serial killer. The question is, will the detectives all live to see the dawn of November?Newsweek declares bestselling author Ed McBain “has virtually reinvented the police procedural.” Interweaving rich characters, taut plotting, and sharp dialogue, Tricks is a multi-character masterpiece.

About Ed McBain

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on October 06, 2015

First published in 1986, Tricks is the 40th book in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series. This entry is somewhat unique in that all of the action takes place during the course of a single day and night, a Halloween that is packed with more than a few tricks and not a lot of treats for the detectives of......more

Goodreads review by Carac on June 20, 2014

If you're considering reading an Ed McBain book I wouldn't advise starting at the beginning of the series. The first three were written in 1956 and although they're great they come off a little dated. The series ran from 56 until 2005! Start with "Tricks". It's a book in the latter third of the serie......more

Goodreads review by Glen on October 20, 2024

It's Halloween, and things start going to heck. Little kids go to trick or treating at liquor stores, and shooting people. Body parts are turning up all over town. A magician has really disappeared. It all comes together a little too neatly, but at least Carella doesn't take over the book.......more

Goodreads review by Skip on November 03, 2013

A bit dizzying, this one. Three plots, all revolving around Halloween and the book's apt title. One: the disappearance of a magician from a high school performance where pieces of his body are discovered all over the city; Two: A series of liquor store robberies with dead owners, starting with four......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 15, 2024

This is one eventful read set over one very eventful day... It's Halloween, a night filled with Tricks and Treats... We follow a band of cops dealing with the days events, random everyday things like Kids murdering and robbing liquor stores, a magician who goes missing, body parts found in bins, fema......more

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