Amazingly, MWA Grand Master McBain remains as fresh and sharp-edged as ever in his 53rd 87th Precinct novel (after 2003's Fat Ollie's Book), which takes on the culture of celebrity. Bison Records' ...

Only rarely does a literary character appear to be fashioned not just with words but with blood and bone – made so alive that you find yourself wondering what he’s doing now, after you’ve read the ...

Only rarely does a literary character appear to be fashioned not just with words but with blood and bone, made so alive that you find yourself wondering what he’s doing now, after you’ve read the ...

Fans of the Berenstain Bears audiobooks are in for a shock when they listen to McLarty's performance here. Instead of reading the voice of Papa Bear (which he's done for numerous Berenstain Bears ...

‘The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.” This is the usual preface to one of Ed ...

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct centers on Detective Steve Carella and the 87th Precinct as they investigate the toughest cases while juggling their own personal struggles.

From the outside, the former headquarters of the 87th Precinct looks like another abandoned squatters’ hideaway. Its doors are sufficiently tagged with graffiti, glass windows are broken with jagged ...

Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the ...

It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The women getting raped ...

It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The victims appear to ...