Ed McBain

Downtown is the wickedly funny story of a Sarasota orange grower who stops for a drink on his way to the airport and suddenly finds himself the major suspect in a grisly New York City murder....

A long shadow looms above the wife of filmmaker Carlton Markham. Then a hand clamps over her mouth, and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Markham....

After Jessica Leeds—wife of a prestigious, wealthy Florida landowner—is brutally raped, three Vietnamese immigrants are charged with the crime. After the trial results in their acquittal, Jessica's husband Stephen vows vengeance. Then, the three immigrants are found savagely murdered....

Attorney Matthew Hope had hired Otto Samalson to conduct a simple marital investigation—so how does Samalson end up dead on a deserted highway? Hope's search for an answer takes him into Florida's drug underworld on the trail of a hooker....

Ed McBain takes us Downtown in a bold, new departure of a novel that will have readers cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City....

Ed McBain brings his most intelligent and devious criminal back to the 87th Precinct with a richly plotted and literary crime....

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know....

Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood....

Detective Steve Carella is faced with a wealthy blonde sporting a beautiful body and two attempts on her life....

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know...

It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso is young and beautiful, with the body and voice of an angel....

堂場瞬一の新訳でよみがえる警察小説の金字塔。87分署の面々が少年の取り違え誘拐事件を追う。

It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol....

Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare....