Henry Carter Hull

A "gripping-collection of crime stories from the author of the acclaimed 87th Precinct novels (People). Ed McBain's 87th Precinct is "perhaps the finest police procedural series of all time-(Publishers Weekly). But before he turned to novels, McBain wrote short crime fiction under various names, for pulp magazines including Manhunt and Argosy. Collected in this anthology are twenty-five of these early stories, organized under headings such as "Women...

McBain's cops have seen too much crime and madness as they begin a new case-The stabbing of a priest in his garden with a red cult sign found painted on the gate.

Detectives Meyer and Carella investigate a savage murder, gang warfare suddenly erupts in the city, the drug business heats up, and the 87th Precinct finds itself tense and taxed.

Detectives Carella and Brown are investigating the murder of a young woman and a string of robberies committed by a man who leaves chocolate chip cookies at the scene when their lives are threatened by the man who killed Carella's father.

The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby apartment in the 87th Precinct leads detectives Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks to the discovery of an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug, and a killer.

Hope, the defense attorney, believes Mary Barton is innocent of murdering 3 young girls, but evidence convicts her until a long buried secret is revealed.