Long time no see : an 87th precinct mystery

Format:

Book

Title:

Long time no see : an 87th precinct mystery

Author:

McBain, Ed, 1926-2005 author

ISBN:

9780394402932

9780380703692

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Random House, [1977]

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 22 cm

Number in series:

Summary:

A blind man is found with his throat cut and his widow is murdered the next day, and 87th-Precinct detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer search for leads in squadroom files, army bases, and massage parlors.

Subject(s):

87th Precinct (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.

Police -- United States -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

United States

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction

Fiction

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Silver Falls Library	MYS MCBAIN	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Sheridan Public Library	McBain 87th Precinct v.32	Searching... Unknown

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Author Notes

Ed McBain is a pen name for Evan Hunter who was born in 1926 in East Harlem, New York on October 15, 1926. Hunter was born with the name Salvatore Albert Lombino, and he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. During World War II, Hunter joined the Navy and served aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. He graduated from Hunter College, were he majored in English and psychology, with minors in dramatics and education.

He was a prolific writer who also wrote under the names of Ed McBain, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten. His first major success came in 1954 with the publication of The Blackboard Jungle, which was later adapted as a film. He published the first three books in the 87th Precinct series in 1956 under the name of Ed McBain. He also wrote juvenile books, plays, television scripts, and stories and articles for magazines. He won the Mystery Writers of America Award in 1957 and the Grand Master Award in 1986 for lifetime achievement. He died of laryngeal cancer on July 6, 2005 at the age of 78.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

One of the cops was Italian, but he didn't wear a dirty raincoat. . . the other cop was bald, but he didn't suck lollipops. . . ."" Ed McBain is pushing real, unadorned police blotters, and proud of it, and should be--especially with this latest. The 87th Precinct (Detectives Carella and Meyer) have two blind-people bodies to make sense out of--husband and wife, black and white, throats slit a day apart. The answer, which sneaks up through a Vietnam past, psychiatric records, and ghetto interviews, may be less than a stunning turnaround, but getting there is a steady, pulsing loop: McBain again paces the jog-trot of police work into a mesmerizing, affecting drama where nothing seems staged for effect. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.