Alena Maxová Libros

Sees the return of the Deaf Man - taunting the boys of the 87th Precinct with enigmatic messages and ill deeds, specially for Christmas. The author also wrote "Lightning".

Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct faces the precinct's greatest foe, the Deaf Man, when the criminal returns to a life of crime in order to murder the city's graffiti artists

There are 186 patrolmen and a handful of detectives in the 87th Precinct, but it's never quite enough. Because between petty crimes and major felonies, between crimes of hate and crimes of passion, the city never sleeps -- and for these cops, a day never ends... The night shift has a murdered go-go dancer, a firebombed black church, a house full of ghosts, and a mother trying to get her twenty-two year-old to come home. The day shift: a naked hippie lying smashed on the concrete, two murderous armed robbers in Halloween masks, and a man beaten senseless by four guys using sawed-off broom handles. Altogether, it's a day in the life. But for a certain cop in the 87th Precinct, it could just be his last...

Vrahův žold Byl pohledný, elegantní, zazobaný – ale mrtvý! Vyděrač Sy Kramer, který zašel příliš daleko, vyfasoval svůj poslední žold – kulku do hlavy. Která z jeho obětí mohla ztratit tolik, že se uchýlila k vraždě? Detektivové z 87. revíru musí najít vraha protřelého vyděrače, než udeří znovu. Vyděšené oběti, které zastřelenému zločinci platily za mlčení, však policii vůbec nepomáhají… Jako z lásky Tommy a Irenese podle dopisu na rozloučenou rozhodli spáchat společnou sebevraždu otravou svítiplynem. Zpočátku vše nasvědčuje tomu, že se jedná o sebevraždu milenců, ale detektivům Carellovi a Hawesovi jejich řemeslo velí na první zdání nespoléhat. Při pátrání je Carella surově napaden neznámým mužem… Zemřela jako Sadie Steve Carella podezírá muže z vraždy jeho manželky, ale rychle se podaří vypátrat narkomana, který se přizná, že se do bytu vloupal a Sarah Fletcherovou zavraždil. Je však vyhráno? Bert Kling se zase jednou zakouká do jedné slečny a k tomu ještě nosí náramek od Meyera Meyera. A za pár dní jsou Vánoce…

When a young woman's body is fished out of the 87th Precinct's river, a street-wise detective is on the clock to find the con man who killed her before he strikes again. McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet? even those we thought we already knew.? ?New York Times Book Review Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment.? ?Entertainment Weekly

Smrt jde ženichovi v patách… a ženich má ten den svatbu s Angelou, sestrou Steva Carelly, jenže svatební hostina Tommyho a Angely se pro Steva a jeho kolegy ze sedmaosmdesátky změní ve smrtelnou hru na schovávanou. Carella má jen několik drahocenných hodin na to, aby vypáttal vraha a zachránil Tommyho před definitivním koncem. Ale jak najít vraha, když se skrývá mezi stovkami svatebních hostí? Je jím Tommyho svědek, který má zdědit po příteli všechen jeho majetek, pokud se vrahův úmysl zdaří? Nebo snad Ben Darcy, který dosud šíleně miluje Angelu a udělal by všechno na světě, aby ji získal zpět? Nebo ten bláznivý bývalý voják, který se zapřísáhl, že se Tommymu pomstí? Carella musí dopadnout vraha co nejrychleji, nemá-li se Angela stát ve svůj svatební den vdovou… Zdroj BBart

Suspense fiction. Her name is death - and her name is Virginia Dodge. Virginia Dodge is determined to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she doesn't care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct in the process. Armed with a gun and a bottle of nitro-glycerine she spends an afternoon terrorising Lieutenant Byrnes and his men with her clever little home-made bomb. Is there anything the boys at the 87th can do to save Carella or will this crazy woman achieve her goal ...? In one of the most dazzling novellas of the Precinct, Ed McBain exposes the dangerous loyalties that keep the boys of the 87th together, and threaten to tear them apart at the same time.

Was the warehouse fire an accident? And why was the warehouse's security guard lying dead outside? The detectives of the 87th Precinct must listen to a bloodcurdling tape which is their best clue to solving a tangle of arson, dope, homicide and pornography.

Begins with what looks like a lynching and turns out to be a race for a publicity-conscious killer with a taste for young, female sports stars, while Kling's girlfriend Eileen stalks a highly systematic rapist. The author also wrote "Eight Balck Horses"

Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day that she was in love with a doctor at work—and was gone. Now he’s finally hit the jackpot. Kling just married the beautiful model Augusta Blair, and they are about to enjoy the first night of their marriage together…until bad luck catches him again. When Kling gets out of the shower, Augusta is gone, leaving behind one shoe—and cotton soaked in chloroform. Even harder than calling Detective Steve Carella with the news is standing on the sidelines while the rest of the men do all the work. But he’ll have to—or he’ll never see her alive again. A spine-tingling race against time as the detectives of the 87th do what they do best, So Long as You Both Shall Live is an extraordinary addition to the series, an Ed McBain masterpiece that marries taut police procedure with the personal stakes of a man who stands to lose everything—again.