From the outside, the former headquarters of the 87th Precinct looks like another abandoned squatters’ hideaway. Its doors are sufficiently tagged with graffiti, glass windows are broken with jagged ...

Amazingly, MWA Grand Master McBain remains as fresh and sharp-edged as ever in his 53rd 87th Precinct novel (after 2003's Fat Ollie's Book), which takes on the culture of celebrity. Bison Records' ...

Only rarely does a literary character appear to be fashioned not just with words but with blood and bone – made so alive that you find yourself wondering what he’s doing now, after you’ve read the ...

Only rarely does a literary character appear to be fashioned not just with words but with blood and bone, made so alive that you find yourself wondering what he’s doing now, after you’ve read the ...

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct centers on Detective Steve Carella and the 87th Precinct as they investigate the toughest cases while juggling their own personal struggles.

Fans of the Berenstain Bears audiobooks are in for a shock when they listen to McLarty's performance here. Instead of reading the voice of Papa Bear (which he's done for numerous Berenstain Bears ...

‘The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.” This is the usual preface to one of Ed ...

NEW YORK - Novelist Evan Hunter, better known to many readers as the Ed McBain who wrote the 87th Precinct novels, has died of cancer at the age of 78, his agent said today. Hunter wrote more than 100 ...

It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The women getting raped ...