Réunit : "Soupe au poulet" ; "Pas d'avenir pour le futur" ; "Rançon sur un thème mineur" ; "La main dans le sac" ; "À la bonne heure" ; "Mourir pour mourir" ; "Le dément à lunettes".

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Ed McBain is the only American winner of the coveted Diamond Dagger Award, and he is also a past recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. So, when a reader picks up the latest installment of McBain's 87th Precinct series, the bar is set pretty high. But with The Big Bad City, McBain meets expectations.  In the opening pages, Steve Carella and Artie Brown return to the department with 9 basketball players (the 10th player was murdered) only to discover a knife fight erupting in a holding cell. It's a steamy August night, and Carella and Detective Parker end up having to shoot one of the fighters to cool things down. Then Meyer and Kling enter the scene; they're hot in pursuit of the Cookie Boy, a thief who leaves chocolate-chip cookies at every crime sight. Before the interminable day is done, Carella and Brown are called out to Grover Park to investigate a homicide. A nun has been strangled to death, but she's no ordinary Sister. She's got signs of a breast augmentation operation that hint at a sordid past. Finally, readers are privy to a conversation between Juju and Sonny. Sonny killed a cop's dad, and Juju is convinced that the police will bend the rules to see that Sonny winds up dead. Juju insists that the only way out of the death trap is to kill the cop first. The officer's name is Steve Carella. And all of this happens in the first 15 pages. McBain is one of the artists of the police procedural. Though his city is fictional, it breathes with the darkness and gritty reality of many American cities. He enters the minds and hearts of his characters to uncover the daily insecurities that accompany the work of policemen. Readers new to the 87th Precinct will want to venture back to such tales as 1956's Cop Hater, 1964's Ax, and 1965's Doll, among the 47 installments in this series. Those who've been along for the ride will be happy they did not give up their seat. --Patrick O'Kelley

La Cité Sans Sommeil (87th Precinct, #49)

Une noyée qui a séjourné quatre mois dans une rivière n'est pas facile à identifier. C'est l'affaire de l'inspecteur Steve Carella...

Faites-moi confiance

"Stan Gifford was a funny man. So funny that every Wednesday night millions of people lowered their lights and raised his TV rating to unparalleled heights -- until the night he lost his sense of humor, and his life. Everyone watching thought it was a heart attack. Everyone except Detectives Carella and Meyer, who had a hunch that even forty million witnesses could be wrong...and brilliantly conceived a plan to prove it.Meanwhile, at the 87th Precinct, Detective Kling had his hands full with a black-and-blue blonde. She'd been attacked and sadistically beaten as a warning to stay away from the police, but evidently had been in no mood to listen. Detective Kling took a very close look at the facts, a very long look at the blonde, and accepted the case -- going far beyond the line of duty to solve it.Eighty Million Eyes is one of the most icily explicit expositions of police procedure any reader will ever encounter -- a double-edged thriller dealing with two cases whose histories run concurrently. There is plenty of fascinating lab work, tough action and typical McBain irony before the 87th ties up the loose ends of this unique, twin-sized surprise shocker. It's an absolute spellbinder." -- Book Jacket of the Book Club Edition.

80 Millions De Voyeurs (87th Precinct, #21)

Outside the 87th Precinct a stranger stands in the falling snow. A big man with big hands, Roger hesitates: He knows he should go in and tell a policeman about what happened the night before; about Molly, the homely girl he met in a bar and brought back to his rented room. But then again...The snow falls on the city. Pushers, pimps, and working stiffs come and go. Roger tries to make up his mind. And every second that he hesitates takes him one step farther away from the 87th Precinct station, as another second ticks away on an innocent woman's life...

Entre deux chaises

Twenty stories from the man who created the 87th Precinct. Stories of the street and the city, stories of the cops and their prey. Life in a Chinese lobster-shop, the making of a porn queen, and the agony of being jailed with a non-stop talking cellmate. Places and people only he could describe.

Si Ed McBain M Etait

A classic novel of police procedure by the bestselling author of Kiss. "I will kill the Lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it?" The boys of the 87th have just twelve hours to find out who the crank letter writer is--and who he means by "the Lady "--for whom there will be no second chance.

Souffler n'est pas tuer

A l'occasion des 15 ans de la disparition d'Ed Mac Bain, voici la réédition dans leur suite chronologique et dans des traductions intégrales, des 53 romans et 3 nouvelles qui constituent le 87e District : une étonnante Comédie humaine de notre temps. - Amusez-vous bien, les gosses ! Ils étaient tous les quatre déguisés en voleurs. Ils aboraient tous des petits blousons de cuir noir, des jeezans, des sneakers blancs, des casquettes à large visière et des petits masques noirs qui leur recouvraient le haut du visage. Ils transportaient des sacs d'épicerie ornés de petites citroilles orange ; Ils tenaient également des pistolets d'enfants dans leurs petites mains. Ils traversèrent le trottoir sans se presser, en bavardant avec animation. Celui qui marchait en tête poussa la porte du magasin. La pendule murale indiquait cinq heures et quart. Le propriétaire releva la tête lorsque la clochete de l'entrée retentit. - ; Trick or treat ! crièrent les enfants à l'unisson. - ; Dégagez, les mômes, ce n'est pas le moment ! leur répondit le propriétaire d'un ton impatient. Un des gamins l'abattit d'une balle dans la tête. Ce sixième volume de l'édition intégrale du 87e District réserve quelques surprises : le retour du Sourd, ce criminel génial qui nargue toute la tribu du 87e, et ces étranges enfants qui surgissent dans une épicerie de Culver Avenue, un soir d'Halloween.

87e district Intégrale Tome 6

«Il guettait la jeune femme qui, pour une fois, lui paraissait jolie. Elle était seule et le sac qu'elle portait en bandoulière sur l'épaule semblait lourd... Le coup rêvé...Il s'avança sans bruit et si vivement qu'elle n'eut pas le temps de crier. Son bras lui encercla la gorge et il l'entraîna dans la ruelle.- Pas un mot ! souffla-t-il, tout en la coinçant contre le mur de brique. Son poing partit au même instant, s'écrasa sur la figure de la femme. Ensuite, ce fut un jeu d'enfant de lui arracher son sac... et de s'incliner gracieusement devant elle en déclarant :- Clifford vous remercie, madame !»

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