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Ed McBain
Ed McBain
Money, Money, MoneyMoney, Money, Money
CandylandCandyland
The Last DanceThe Last Dance
NocturneNocturne
Killer's PayoffKiller's Payoff
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Bibliography


First British Edition Orion (2002)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Money, Money, Money
The fifty-first installment of the 87th Precinct series
$1.7 million dollars of trouble in a very crowded 87th Precinct...
Cassandra Lee Ridley was only the first victim. The beautiful red-headed, ex-Airforce pilot had done her job perfectly - ferrying the hard currency south of the border to pay for an enormous consignment of cocaine - and she was already back in New York when her Mexican vendors caught up with her. The `hard’ currency was as genuine as a politician’s word of honour and these weren’t the sort of people to let that slide. Pride had heen hurt.
But, unfortunately, Cassandra didn’t know quite enough to save her life…
And when her naked body is tossed into a lion’s cage in the 87th precinct it is the unfortunate responsibility of Detective Steve Carella. And before long she is not alone. A book salesman is found stuffed into a garbage can with a bullet in the back of his head, the body of a fake Texas ranger turns up, the wrong end of 10,000 volts of cattle prod and two gorgeous blondes are on a rampage through the city.
With lightning pace, an endlessly twisting plot and all the slick trademarks of the best of Ed McBain’s writing, Money, Money, Money confirms the author’s standing as an enduring legend of crime fiction…
Praise for Ed McBain
‘One of the masters of crime fiction’ Sunday Telegraph
‘McBain is so good that he ought to be arrested’ Publishers Weekly
‘A virtuoso’ The Guardian
‘Years ago, I thought Ed McBain’s books were sexy love songs to a cold, violent city. Now, I think they are sad, slow dances in a city where everyone dances alone’ New York Times Book Review
‘This much-loved and seminal writer is a national treasure. If you’re a mystery reader, you’ve undoubtedly read Ed McBain. If you haven’t read one for a while, try this one. It’s so good it will immediately send you scurrying back for the ones you missed’ Otto Penzler, amazon.com (on the Last Dance)
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First British Edition Gollancz (2001)
Paperback - Orion (2002)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Candyland
Over the years Evan Hunter and Ed McBain have forged two separate and distinct careers despite being one and the same person. `Together’ for the first time, they- have written a novel that is at once shocking, bold and compulsively readable.
Benjamin Thorpe is a married man, a loving father and a successful Los Angeles architect. Away from home on business, he’s alone in New York City. Cathy Frese is also alone. Working as a hooker called Heidi, she has finished for the night and walks back to her studio apartment. But she never arrives. Her strangled, mutilated bode is found in an alleyway the next morning.
These two lost souls had crossed briefly in the night, and as the foggy events of the evening before come into sharper focus, Benjamin Thorpe becomes an ever more possible suspect . . .
‘Two classics for the price of one’ Daily Mirror
‘Excellent . . . tremendous pace . . . Candyland is a real page turner’ Irish Independent
‘Candyland is a restless, prowling tale of sex and divided identity . . .Terrific’ Daily Telegraph
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First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2000)
The Last Dance
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
Cynthia Keating says she found her father, Andrew Hale, dead in his bed. Faint cord marks on his neck and Rohypnol in his blood say otherwise. And for a landmark 50th investigation, the men of the 87th - Carella, Meyer, Hawes, Brown, Parker and Kling (The Big Bad City, 1999 etc) joined by Fat Ollie Weeks, equal opportunity bigot of the 88th - fan through the streets of Isola, unearthing a vintage array of vies, perps, rats and innocent bystanders, tracking the case witness by witness. Stoolie Danny the Gimp knows a guy who was in a poker game with a knife-scarred Jamaican contract killer who took him home afterward for a night of sex and "roofies" But Danny gets aced by a couple of thugs who work for El Jefe, Hightown dealer of designer drugs. Meanwhile, an alert neighbour reports that Hale was visited by a big man who offered him, in his radio-announcer's voice, the opportunity to make millions - an opportunity Hale refused. And Fat Ollie, looking for whoever stabbed Althea Cleary - girl from the sticks by day, topless dancer by night - careens through the projects downtown, turning up a hot lead on a scarred Jamaican and a hot plateful of fried bananas for good measure. 'McBain is so good he ought to be arrested' Publishers Weekly Ed McBain is one of the most illustrious names in crime fiction. In 1998 he was the first non-British author to be awarded the Crime Writers' Association/Cartier Diamond Dagger Award and he is also a holder of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award. He has written more than eighty works of fiction, including the heralded 87th Precinct series and the acclaimed Matthew Hope series. His real name is Evan Hunter and he lives in Connecticut.

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First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (1997)
Nocturne
See Review by John Caven
'What remains consistent about the books is their quality... each book is written to a very high standard. You are watching a virtuoso at work, effortlessly gliding through his pirouettes and pas-de-chat. He never puts a foot wrong.’ Lucretia Stewart, The Guardian
'You tune in nostalgically to see how the old boy's doing and, in ten lines, you're hooked. McBain in brilliant, exemplary form with 87th Precinct regulars on parade. ....Stay with McBain; you never know what you'll learn.’ Philip Oakes, The Literary Review
'Another slick police procedural.’ The Observer
'An extremely professional piece of work, which seizes the attention from the first page and demands to be read at a sitting.’ T J Binyon, The Evening Standard
'Another good read' The Sunday Telegraph
'The plotting is pacey, punchy and laced with generous doses of hard-boiled humour. McBain knows his terrain with back-of-the-hand intimacy and therefore the police procedures and urban milieu smack with a ring of authenticity… The graveyard shift of the 87th Precinct may be a hell hole to work in but it's a great place to visit.' Ian Freer, Empire

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Paperback - Allison & Busby (2000)
Killer's Payoff
He is handsome, well-dressed, well-heeled - and dead. A blackmailer who'd gone too far, Sy Kramer had earned his last payoff, a bullet in the head. Which of Kramer's pigeons had so much at stake that murder seemed a good gamble! The politician's voluptuous wife? The soft drinks king? Or the unknown victim who had fattened Kramer's bank account by the thousands? The boys of the 87th had a tough case to crack. They must find the desperate killer before he or she strikes again.
'A master. Ed McBain has virtually reinvented the police procedural' Newsweek
'The writing is, as always, utterly convincing ... McBain is sui generis without fictional forebears.' Boston Globe
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About The Author
Evan Hunter was born in New York City in 1926. he is widely recognised as one of America’s most popular novelists, as well as a successful writer for television and cinema whose credits include the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.
As Ed McBain he holds the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. His books have sold over one hundred million copies and include both the 87th Precinct and the Matthew Hope series of novels, as well as those published under his own name of Evan Hunter.
Ed McBain is one of the true greats of crime writing. He is the only non-British author ever to be awarded the Crime Writers Associations Diamond Dagger Award - the ultimate accolade for a crime writer. His 87th precinct series, featuring Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues has set and maintained the standard for crime fiction through more than 50 novels of extraordinary quality. He now joins the Gollancz list with two new 87th Precinct novels, of which this is the first.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Money, Money, Money (Orion, 2002) ( 87th Precinct)
  • Candyland (Gollancz, 2001) Orion Pbk Jan 02
  • The Last Dance (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000) NEL Pbk Jul 00
  • Driving Lessons Short Stories (Orion, 1999)
  • The Last Best Hope (Hodder & Stoughton, 1998) NEL Pbk 1998
  • Nocturne (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997) ( 87th Precinct)
  • The Third 87th Precinct Omnibus (Hamish Hamilton, 1977) ( 87th Precinct)
  • Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear (Hodder)
  • Doors (Warner)
  • Romance (NEL)
  • Widows
  • Mary, Mary
  • Fuzz
  • House That Jack Built
  • He Who Hesitates
  • The Mugger
  • Death of a Nurse
  • Lady, Lady, I Did it
  • Ten Plus One
  • Downtown
  • The Heckler
  • Shotgun
  • Jigsaw
  • See Them Die
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Goldilocks
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Mischief
  • Ghosts
  • Kiss
  • Heat
  • Doll
  • Killer's Payoff Allison & Busby Pbk Feb 00
  • Long Time No See
  • Killer's Choice Allison & Busby Pbk Oct 99
  • Empty Hours
  • The Pusher
  • Cop Hater
  • Blood Relatives
  • Lullaby
  • There Was a Little Girl
  • Vespers
  • Three Blind Mice
  • Tricks
  • Where There's Smoke
  • The Sentries
  • Like Love
  • Guns
  • Axe
  • Bread
  • Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!
  • Vanishing Ladies
  • Let's Hear it for the Deaf Man

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