Lady, lady, I did it! : an 87th Precinct mystery

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

Lady, lady, I did it! : an 87th Precinct mystery

Author:

McBain, Ed, 1926-2005.

ISBN:

9780786286546

9781405637879

9781405637886

Edition:

Large print ed.

Publication Information:

Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press ; Bath, England : Chivers, 2006.

Physical Description:

264 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Thorndike Press large print famous authors series.

Summary:

The first thing Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling saw was four bodies soaked in blood. Then Kling realized that one of those crumpled on the bookshop floor was Claire Townsend, his fiance! And that's when the "bookstore massacre" stopped being just another murder case to the boys of the 87th Precinct. For Bert Kling was one of their own, and no one could get away with blasting a policeman's girl.

Subject(s):

87th Precinct (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.

Police -- United States -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Geographic Term:

United States.

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Holds:

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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe first thing Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling saw was four bodies soaked in blood. Then Kling realized that one of those crumpled on the bookshop floor was Claire Townsend, his fiancie And that's when the bookstore massacre stopped being just another murder case to the boys of the 87th Precinct. For Bert Kling was one of their own, and no one could get away with blasting a policeman's girl.

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)