Someone killed Annie Boone, but was she an innocent victim or the target of a hit? As Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th precinct pick up the pieces of her interupted life, they move relentlessly closer to some answers yet farther from others. Struggling to find the weak link, the detectives find themselves facing a cold, hard truth they'd prefer not to know.
Benjamin Thorpe è sposato, padre e un architetto di successo a Los Angeles, ma è anche un uomo ossessionato. Solo a New York per lavoro, trascorre le ore vuote della notte in una ricerca compulsiva di compagnia femminile. La sua discesa vertiginosa culmina in un confronto all'alba in un bordello di Midtown e in una straziante auto-rivelazione. Cathy Frese, conosciuta come Heidi-la-prostituta-adolescente, termina il suo turno e si dirige verso il suo appartamento. Ma non arriverà mai. Il suo corpo strangolato, abusato e mutilato viene trovato in un vicolo la mattina seguente. Queste due anime perdute si erano incrociate brevemente nella notte, e mentre gli eventi confusi della notte precedente diventano più chiari, Benjamin Thorpe diventa un sospettato sempre più probabile...
At 22 Jason Trench was a lieutenant commander in the US Navy and determined to defeat international communism. For it was Cuba that presented such an insult to national pride, and it was his attempt to rid America of Castro's country that he mobilized his army of 42 men.
Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires
Fourteen spine-tingling stories of suspense include P. D. James's ""The Victim,"" in which a gorgeous celebrity uses her infatuated ex-husband as a murder weapon, and tales by Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, and other authors.CONTENTSA Man Around the House by Nancy PickardA Glowing Future by Ruth RendellCatalyst by Evan HunterDeath of a Romance Writer by Joan HessBy the Time You Read This by Larry S. HokeAll At Once, No Alice by Cornell WoolrichI Don’t Do Divorce Cases by David JusticeKilling Howard by Ralph McInernyThe Victim by P.D. JamesThe Brothers by Lawrence TreatBreakfast Television by Robert BarnardA Letter Too Late by Henry SlesarThe Betrayers by Stanley EllinThe Perfect Alibi by Patricia Highsmith
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "dazzling, " Mischief continues McBain's bestselling 87th Precinct series as the Deaf Man wreaks havoc throughout Isola. The notorious Deaf Man is planning his most devilish million-dollar caper to date. In the squadroom of the 87th Precint, an otherwise slow March night is enlivened by the murder of a graffiti writer. Over the course of several weeks, more of the city's outlaw artists are killed under mysterious circumstances, and a team run by Detective Parker must put the pieces together.
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Stories included: Man Overboard (Sir Winston Churchill) Timber (John Galsworthy) The Angry Street (G. K. Chesterton) The Call of Wings (Agatha Christie) The Cherries (Lawrence Durrell) A Man From Glasgow (Somerset Maugham) Earth to Earth (Robert Graves) The Grey Ones (J. B. Priestley) The Man Who Didn't Ask Why (C. S. Forester) All But Empty (Graham Greene) Animals or Human Beings (Angus Wilson) Something Strange (Kingsley Amis) The Post-Mortem Murder (Sinclair Lewis) The Dance (F. Scott Fitzgerald) A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) The Bronze Door (Raymond Chandler) A Man Who Had No Eyes (MacKinlay Kantor) The Affair at 7 Rue de M-- (John Steinback) The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith) Inferiority Complex (Evan Hunter) The Terrible Answer (Paul Gallico) Miriam (Truman Capote) Exterminator (William Burroughs) During the Jurassic (John Updike)
The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared Susan Brauer? The stack of unsigned erotic letters in her possession was the first clue. Then the murder of Susan's lover, a married lawyer in his sixties, leads the cops of the 87th to the women left behind: the lawyer's wife, his ex, his daughters. And for Detective Carella, his own father's senseless death in a bakery holdup sears through the intense summer heat -- and sends him on a fevered hunt for the one who made his mother a widow and shrouded his family in grief.
Ottanta milioni di occhi di quaranta milioni di spettatori sono puntati sullo schermo televisivo. È in onda il programma del popolare intrattenitore Stan Gifford. Anche Steve Carella lo guarda da casa. Il programma si sviluppa normalmente fino a quando Gifford non sembra sentirsi male; dopo un momento, crolla senza sensi sulla sedia. Stan Gifford è morto. Si è avvelenato con lo strofantina. È omicidio o suicidio? Non aveva motivi per il suicidio, ma chi gli ha somministrato quel farmaco a rapido effetto, se è chiaro che in quel momento decisivo nessuno si è avvicinato a lui? Gli investigatori della settantasettesima non si erano mai occupati di un caso apparentemente così incredibile. Tuttavia, ci sono molti sospetti nello studio televisivo e durante le indagini sono disponibili ad aiutare sia la moglie del defunto che il suo medico personale. Questa volta, però, sarà il caso a dare una mano. Meyer Meyer ha il raffreddore…
Een Amerikaanse rechercheur ziet een verband tussen de moorden op een jonge vrouw en een drugshandelaar.
Soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope has never been known for taking easy cases, and this is no exception. A mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida's steamy west coast, and the only person who doesn't have a motive is confessing--and insists that Hope defend him.
This mugger is special. He preys on women, waiting in the darkness…then comes from behind, attacks them, and snatches their purses. He tells them not to scream and as they're on the ground, reeling with pain and fear, he bows and nonchalantly says, “Clifford thanks you, madam.” But when he puts one victim in the hospital and the next in the morgue, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are not amused and will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. Dashing young patrolman Bert Kling is always there to help a friend. And when a friend's sister-in-law is the mugger's murder victim, Bert's personal reasons to find the maniacal killer soon become a burning obsession…and it could easily get him killed. The second book in the 87th Precinct series, The Mugger is an Ed McBain classic, a nuanced portrayal of justice and vengeance hailed by the Daily Mirror as “a masterpiece of crime writing…and there's nobody who does it better.”
The third Matthew Hope mystery novel from the acclaimed author of the popular 87th Precinct series. What begins as an ordinary one-night-stand for attorney Matthew Hope turns into a deadly mystery when the woman--a 60's rock star trying for a comeback--is brutally murdered, and her daughter turns up missing.
Swift, silent and deadly, soneone is killing the 87th Precinct's finest . . . When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is until a third detective is murdered.With one meagre clue, Detective Steve Carella beginshis grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city's underworld to a notorious brothel, the the apartment of a beutiful and dangerous widow and, finally, to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head . . .
Larry Cole has everything a man could want. He loves his wife, Eve, and is devoted to their two small sons. His career as an architect is both creatively satisfying and financially rewarding. His house in suburban Pinecrest Manor is attractive and comfortable. But then Larry sees a new neighbor standing at the school bus stop. Margaret Gault is young, blond, beautiful—and married. She’s everything Larry didn’t realize was missing from his life, and he must have her. Maggie tells Larry she’s never been in love. But this isn’t about love. It’s about need and desire. Touch and taste and risk. And lies. Larry and Maggie surrender to lust, knowing their secret motel rendezvous and lunch-hour trysts will amount to nothing; they will always be strangers to each other. But actions have consequences. And sometimes consequences can be deadly. Author Evan Hunter adapted his riveting novel of infidelity into a film starring Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. A torrid tale of sexual compulsion and the secrets lurking beneath the most placid of surfaces, Strangers When We Meet is an early masterpiece from the creator of the bestselling 87th Precinct series.
