Mystery
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 )
mobi |eng | 1998-04-01 | Author:Ed McBain

"Frozen tundra out there," Hawes said, and took off his coat. Carella was leafing through the messages on his desk. "Chicken feathers, huh?" he asked Willis. "Is what the man ...
( Category: Murder December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2000-11-15 | Author:Ed McBain

The lions were really kicking it up. Maybe they're hungry, Carella thought. Maybe they'd like a nice fat detective for dinner. It's a pity I'm not a fat detective, but ...
( Category: Murder December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 1999-12-01 | Author:Ed McBain

Chapter TWELVE THE SQUAD ROOM of the 87th resembled nothing so much as the locker room of the Boys' Club when Bush arrived. There must have been at least two ...
( Category: Murder December 23,2019 )
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 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Ed McBain

It was unfortunate, perhaps, that Arthur Brown was so zealous in his pursuit of the con man. Had he not been such an eager beaver, he would not have asked ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Ed McBain

Back at the squad, Detective Hal Willis was studying a necropsy report made on the dead body of Anthony La Scala. The report informed him that the cause of death ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2001-09-03 | Author:Ed McBain

* * * CHAPTER NINE Some guys, too, have all the misfortune. Meyer Meyer and Steve Carella had their share that blistering day. By 1.40 p.m. the sidewalks were baking, ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
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 )
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 )
mobi |eng | 1991-12-15 | Author:Ed McBain

If there is one thing criminals and cops alike share—aside from the symbiotic relationship that makes each of their jobs possible—it is the sense of smell that tells them when ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-28 | Author:Ed McBain

"I don't remember the man's name. But, yes, . was one of the things troubling him..." ... and someone's mother coming to seek and advice about her homosexual son's involw ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Ed McBain

13. THE FOUR MEN SAT on the hillside overlooking the ice-cream factory. The factory was surrounded by a cyclone fence and within that fence there were at least thirty white ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 1986-11-15 | Author:Ed McBain

* * * * ‘Let it ring,’ the Deaf Man said. She was naked. They were on her bed. She would have let it ring even if it was the ...
( Category: Murder December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 1994-06-01 | Author:Ed McBain

T/P/O meant Time and Place of Occurrence. MOS meant Member of the Service. GSW meant Gun Shot Wound. VS meant Vital Signs. By the time this report was filed, Georgia ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )