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10 Mary, Mary by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

Warren pulled to the curb at the first phone booth he spotted. He could never understand why there were hardly any public telephones on Calusa’s streets or highways. You wanted ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
05 Snow White and Rose Red by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

Sylvia first met Tracy Kilbourne— “That’s her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names…well, Tiffany Carter, for example…but ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
13 The Last Best Hope by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

Donofrio’s landlady told Matthew that he went to the Strength ’N’ Stamina Fitness Club to work out three times a week. Matthew drove there at ten o’clock that Tuesday morning. ...
( Category: Legal December 23,2019 )
09 Til Death by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Ed McBain

The document was divided into three sections separated by perforated folding edges. It was printed on a dull shade of offpink paper. Its outer edges were serrated. Each section measured ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
52 Fat Ollie's Book by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Ed McBain

THE OFFICES OFCouncilman Lester Lyle Henderson were close to City Hall, in a part of town still referred to as the Old City. Here stood the ocean-battered seawall the Dutch ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
11 Give the Boys a Great Big Hand by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Ed McBain

The King and Queen was actually on the outermost fringe of The Quarter, really closer to the brownstone houses that huddled in the side streets off Hall Avenue than to ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
43 Widows by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Ed McBain

"Fearless," he said. "And all those other things, too." "And that's why he gave me the thirty-day probation." "Well, I also told him you were beautiful." "You didn't," she said. ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
35 Heat by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Ed McBain

The air conditioner was humming in the second-floor bedroom of the brownstone. The room was cool, but Kling could not sleep. It was 2:00 in the morning, and he wasn’t ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
23 Shotgun by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

Thursday was Halloween, so naturally nothing happened on either case. That’s because on Halloween there are ghouls and goblins and witches and spooks stirring on the sweet October air, and ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
26 Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

Police work (like life) is often not too tidy. Take surveillance, for example. On Friday afternoon, Carella had asked Byrnes for permission to begin surveillance of Gerald Fletcher on Sunday ...
( Category: Murder December 23,2019 )
30 Blood Relatives by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Ed McBain

Cops know crime statistics. Which is why hardly anything surprises a cop. Shocks him, yes. He is capable of being shocked. Surprised, rarely. Not where it concerns crime. Carella was ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
16 Like Love by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

“I’m telling you they’re lying. They’re trying to cover up for what happened in that room. They’re saying my brother was involved with that girl, but it isn’t the truth. ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
53 Frumious Bandersnatch by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Ed McBain

7 THERE WERE MARCHERSoutside the Rio Building when Carella got there on Monday morning at eight o’clock. The marchers were carrying hand-lettered signs on wooden sticks. Some of the signs ...
( Category: Kidnapping December 23,2019 )
28 Hail to the Chief by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1997-05-01 | Author:Ed McBain

On the way up to the fifth floor of 1894 Dooley, Kling suddenly said, 'I think I figured it out.' 'What'd you figure out this time?' 'What he meant.' 'Who? ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
40 Tricks by Ed McBain
mobi |eng | 1992-08-15 | Author:Ed McBain

There were four liquor stores on Culver Avenue between the last one hit on Twentieth, and the eastern edge of the precinct territory on Thirty-Fifth. After that, it was the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )

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