A young girl jumps to her death, a salesman gets blown apart, and two semi-nude bodies are found dead on a bed with all the earmarks of a love pact.Spring was really here for the 87th Precinct.Carella and Hawes thought the double suicide stank of homicide, but they couldn't get a break.Fortunately, Hawes had something going with Christine - like love...

On suicide

Blanche comme une petite fille

The third Matthew Hope mystery novel from the acclaimed author of the popular 87th Precinct series. What begins as an ordinary one-night-stand for attorney Matthew Hope turns into a deadly mystery when the woman--a 60's rock star trying for a comeback--is brutally murdered, and her daughter turns up missing.

Fausses Notes

A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home—at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavement. Upstairs her neighbor and popular ghost story author Gregory Craig lay dead as well, stabbed in his apartment. When Craig’s publisher is found murdered just days later, Detective Steve Carella has a deadly mystery on his hands, one unlike any he’s ever had before.Searching for clues, Carella instead finds Craig’s girlfriend, a medium whose spooky predictions keep him guessing. When some leads take him to a “haunted” house on the New England shores, strange events turn even stranger…until, back in the city, he turns up the crucial evidence he needs to track down the killer.A rare twist in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, Ghosts weaves the haunting uneasiness of the supernatural thriller with a classic, tightly plotted police procedural. Stephen King hails Ghosts as “excellent. It’s a fine—and creepy—mystery, and a fine novel.”

Un poulet chez les spectres

By day the city works. By night it plays, and everyone is invited to the game: the rich the poor, the adventurous and the tame. Sometimes, the playground turns deadly. Sometimes, the homicide detectives from the 87th Precinct are invited, too...Sadie When She DiedThe victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carella is sure someone was hired to make the murder look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets begin to come out of the closet. Now happily married, Steve Carella and unhappily single Bert Kling are entering a city's sexual underground to find out which is more dangerous: a world where anything goes or a husband with secrets of his own.Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1477805613

Après Le Trépas (87th Precinct, #26)

Le héros est fatigué. Deux balles dans la peau ont décidé l'avocat Matthew Hope à jeter l'éponge, direction la Floride. cet état ensoleillé n'est-il pas le paradis des retraités ? Mais voici qu'une blonde en tailleur débarque dans son bureau. Jill Lawton, trente-quatre ans, lui demande de retrouver son mari qui a disparu depuis neuf mois, il n'a pas laissé le moindre mot d'adieu, il a tout simplement cessé de donner signe de vie. Matthew Hope n'a pas vraiment le temps de réfléchir à la proposition de la jeune femme ; le soir même, on retrouve sur la plage un corps portant les papiers du mari. Un seul détail cloche : ce n'est pas le bon cadavre. La piste de l'inconnu remonte jusqu'à Isola, dans le nord, et c'est l'inspecteur Steve Carella qui va prêter main-forte à Matthew Hope.

Le paradis des rates

Édition revue et augmentée par Pierre de Laubier en 1995

Dix plus un

Un monument de la littérature policière.

Un commissariat au coeur d'une grande cité, une brigade d'inspecteurs dans la jungle urbaine...
En 53 romans, Ed McBain nous invite à partager le quotidien de policiers confrontés au crime, du lendemain de la guerre de Corée au début de notre millénaire, faisant de cette fresque un formidable observatoire des mutations de la société américaine : le racisme, la guerre du Vietnam, l'émergence des gangs, les ravages de la drogue...
Présentées dans leur suite chronologique et dans des traductions révisées et intégrales, les chroniques du 87e District apparaissent aujourd'hui pour ce qu'elles sont : une vaste comédie humaine d'un demi-siècle de l'histoire des Etats-Unis.

87e district : Intégrale vol.7

"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.

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