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The Heckler

The Heckler

by EdMcBain (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $12.04

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    Paperback 1970

    $3.62
Synopsis

All over town, phones were ringing. Shopkeepers and merchants were being threatened by anonymous cranks. And the threats were getting more and more serious. When the angry victims started yelling to the local cops for help, Steve Carella and the boys of the 87th Precinct didn't know what to make of the whole thing. Were they facing a plague of harmless pranksters - or the danger of a city-wide wave of violence? All they had to go on were the constant attention of "the deaf man" and the knowledge that if they didn't catch their cold-blooded callers before the end of the month, the prophecies of murder and mayhem might prove all too true.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 02 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0752863789
ISBN 13: 9780752863788
Book Overview: An 87th Precinct novel from one of the true greats of crime fiction Published alongside THE FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH (new in paperback) and the latest deaf man hardback, HARK! Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger He always receives terrific reviews: 'McBain keeps you reading and keeps you guessing ... the book is a winner' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A classic piece of hardboiled Ed ... McBain is the real McCoy' GUARDIAN 'McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'Unbeatable ... the finest police procedural series ever ... Keep 'em coming, Ed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Finely tuned prose and wittily ironic characterisation ... It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES 'As usual with McBain, the plots are complicated, the dialogue fast and funny, and the entertainment value immense' DAILY MAIL 'Lively, inventive, convincing, suspenseful and wholly satisfactory' NEW YORK TIMES 'Zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive' LITERARY REVIEW 'A masterpiece of crime writing ... Ed McBain is brilliant' DAILY MIRROR

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.