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The Mugger

The Mugger

by EdMcBain (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.48
Synopsis

The mugger was special. He preyed only on women. He waited in the darkness, coming from behind to snatch their bags. Then he punched his victims and told them not to scream. As the women reeled with pain and fear, he bowed, and said, 'Clifford thanks you, madam.' The cops in the 87th Precinct are not amused. They want the mugger and they want him bad. Especially after he puts one victim in hospital ...and the next one in the morgue. The dead girl was pretty and only seventeen. And patrolman Bert Kling has a personal reason to go after her murderer...a reason that becomes a burning obsession and an easy way for a cop to get killed.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 03 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 0752857924
ISBN 13: 9780752857923
Book Overview: An 87th Precinct novel from one of the true greats of crime fiction Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger - the first US writer to do so He always receives terrific reviews: 'A masterpiece of crime writing ... I think Ed McBain is brilliant' DAILY MIRROR 'Ed McBain is, by far, the best at what he does. Case closed' PEOPLE 'Zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive ... Shrewd, funny, tough and so topical that it practically sprints from the page' LITERARY REVIEW 'Ed McBain effectively invented the police procedural... McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'Finely tuned prose and wittily ironic characterisation ... It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'Unbeatable ... the finest police procedural series ever...Keep 'em coming, Ed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Media Reviews
'McBain writes with spare economy, bringing his city and the cops who patrolits toughest precinct to vivid life. Classics of crime fiction.'EVENING PRESS
Author Bio
Ed McBain (1926-2005) was born Salvatore Lambino in New York. He changed his name to Evan Hunter and under that name is known as the author of The Blackboard Jungle and as the writer of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The 87th Precinct series numbers over fifty novels. McBain was a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and was one of three American writers to be awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.