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The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the city's most accomplished criminals -- a thief known as the Deaf Man. Because he might be deaf. Or he might not. So little is known about the man who is harassing Detective Steve Carella with puzzling messages that it is hard to tell. But as soon as a pattern emerges, the detectives of the 87th are forced to hit the books and brush up on their Shakespeare -- because each new clue contains a line from one...

Romance and drama capture police detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th Precinct in McBain's Manhattan clone, Isola City. An actress in a play about an actress who gets stabbed is stabbed. Her superficial wound draws little blood but enough media attention, perhaps, to save the drama from the opening-night closing its director expects. The play is titled Romance, a subject very much the focus of Kling's personal life as he doggedly pursues another...

"Who butchered a troubled young priest in his own church? Did an overzealous gang of neighborhood Satanists have a hand in the the bloody business? Or were there even darker doings behind the ornate closed doors of St. Catherine's? In a parish torn by sin, violence, drugs, racial tension and poverty, the cops of the 87th Precinct must throw the first stone -- and hope it makes ripples in a bizarre and baffling case that will test their faith, their...

"Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog - these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face. But most serial...

A nun is murdered in New York City and an autopsy determines she had breast implants. Detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown discover that Sister Mary Vincent led a double life.

Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspaper around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her bady and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless...

Recovered from his wounds, the Deaf Man is bent on revenge and determined to rub the collective face of the 87th in the dust of his brilliance in McBain's latest zany romp.