Calypso
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Finding a dead body was not unusual for an autumn night in the 87th Precinct. But this young woman's body was naked - and potentially related to the series of odd missives received at the station house. All signs point to the Deaf Man's return, this time with a plot more diabolical than even the jaded policemen could imagine. He's been sending them mysterious pictures of police equipment: nightsticks, helmets, black horses, and more. But what did they mean?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
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Heat
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During a sweltering heat wave, Detectives Carella and Kling try to make sense of an artist who turned off his air conditioning to commit suicide - but Kling has an even deadlier problem on his hands.
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Excellent story, Kindof Disturbing
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poison
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- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Eight Black Horses
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Finding a dead body was not unusual for an autumn night in the 87th Precinct. But this young woman's body was naked - and potentially related to the series of odd missives received at the station house. All signs point to the Deaf Man's return, this time with a plot more diabolical than even the jaded policemen could imagine. He's been sending them mysterious pictures of police equipment: nightsticks, helmets, black horses, and more. But what did they mean?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
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Heat
- An 87th Precinct Novel, Book 35
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
During a sweltering heat wave, Detectives Carella and Kling try to make sense of an artist who turned off his air conditioning to commit suicide - but Kling has an even deadlier problem on his hands.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Blood Relatives
- An 87th Precinct Novel
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
A killer is out for blood, and it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to bring him in. But a shocking surprise awaits when a survivor fingers the suspect in a lineup.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story, Kindof Disturbing
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Lightning
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- By: Ed McBain
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- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Two perps - one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims - test the limits of the 87th Precinct’s detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city’s streets.
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Bread
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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It’s bad enough when a warehouse goes up in flames, but when it leads to multiple murders and a slum redevelopment deal that has deadly ties running through the city’s underbelly, the 87th Precinct is back to work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guess who?
- By Juju on 11-11-17
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So Long As You Both Shall Live
- By: Ed McBain
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- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
When Detective Kling’s blushing bride is nabbed from their honeymoon suite, the men of the 87th Precinct are out to help one of their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Long as You Booth Shall Live
- By malles on 05-04-16
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Tricks
- 87th Precinct, Book 40
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Everyone in the 87th Precinct gets in on the act in Tricks. This audiobook from Ed McBain is a multicrime Halloween story full of murder, mayhem, and cops walking the line between decent society and the evil just beneath its surface.
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2 out of 5 stars
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awful performance
- By John on 08-18-14
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Sadie When She Died
- 87th Precinct, Book 26
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4 out of 5 stars 50
Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: His wife’s body with a knife buried in it. Though he shamelessly cops to being happy she’s dead, his alibi is airtight and all signs point to a burglary gone bad. But even when detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling follow the clues to a junky punk and get a full confession, Carella can’t quit thinking there’s something about the case that’s as phony as a sidewalk Santa’s beard.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ed McBain is a master, and I thought Dick Hill was too...
- By Adam Berger on 09-01-18
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Killer's Wedge
- An 87th Precinct Novel, Book 7
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Her name is Virginia Dodge. And she’s here to kill Detective Steve Carella. An ordinary day at the 87th Precinct is about to take a turn for the worse when Dodge shows up to put a bullet in Carella’s head. And she doesn’t care if she has to take all the men in the 87th with her to do it. Armed with a homemade bomb, a handgun, and a bottle of nitroglycerine hidden in her purse, Virginia holds the entire squad room hostage as she waits for Carella. And no one is leaving until he shows up to meet his maker.
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Killer's Payoff
- 87th Precinct, Book 6
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
It’s like an old-time gangster movie: A speeding car, a blazing gun…and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders. But who pulled the high-powered trigger that turned Sy Kramer from a blackmailer into a chalk outline? Was it the politician’s wife with a pornographic past? The soda-pop tycoon desperate to keep a business-busting bungle bottled up? Or was it whoever was paying Kramer a small fortune to hide what must’ve been one very big bad?
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4 out of 5 stars
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ENTERTAINING BUT NOT ONE OF THE BEST
- By J.C.D. on 09-14-15
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Ice
- An 87th Precinct Mystery, Book 36
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
Murder is in season as a brutal winter grips the city. The detectives of the 87th Precinct must fight the elements and turn up the heat to find a ruthless killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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holds up well nicely done. excellent procedural.
- By kevin d o neill on 12-10-15
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Cop Hater
- 87th Precinct Series, Book 1
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 326
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 324
When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to solve the case. With three cops already dead, Carella delves into the city’s underworld to search for the killer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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50's Cop Novel
- By Aaron on 11-30-14
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The Heckler
- 87th Precinct, Book 12
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
With crooks to cuff and pimps to put behind bars, detectives Carella and Meyer of the 87th Precinct simply don’t have the time or patience to deal with a prank caller - even if he has phoned murder threats to two dozen local shop owners. What they fail to realize, however, is they aren’t dealing with a heckler who’s ringing round for kicks but rather a modern-day Moriarty known only as the Deaf Man - and these phone calls are just his first move in a calculated scheme to pull off the bank robbery of the decade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a great series and just gets better
- By pratalife on 05-29-15
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Lullaby
- An 87th Precinct Mystery, Book 41
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
A babysitter and the child she is watching are murdered on New Year’s Eve — just as a gang war over drug trafficking erupts and puts one of the detectives of the 87th Precinct in mortal danger.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How does McBain keep them coming?
- By Barbara on 02-24-13
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Killer's Choice
- An 87th Precinct Novel, Book 5
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
A woman is murdered in a liquor store, hurtling the men from the 87th Precinct into an investigation of her secret lives and many possible enemies. Faced with a host of suspects—from the woman’s former mother-in-law to her ex-husband, employer, and a string of boyfriends—the detectives find themselves with a victim whose identity spurns all conventional definition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Killer’s Choice
- By Tracy P. on 04-04-18
Publisher's Summary
A calypso singer fresh off a gig walks home in a downpour, when shots tear through his head like steel rain. A hooker out on the street in the same miserable weather doesn’t know her final trick will be her last. What brings these two sad ends together… the same gun.
It is stormy in the 87th Precinct and with every hour that passes, every minute the killer stays on the loose, the trail is only going to get colder. But that first clue always leads to another, and Detectives Carella and Meyer find themselves in a dark, twisted world of sex and sadism that ripples through the city’s veins like a virus. If they don’t find their man soon, the sickness will turn deadly again… and again… and again….
Taut and relentless with the brute force of a bullet to bone, Calypso is one of the darkest entries in best-selling author Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series.
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- Dez
- 07-18-17
surprise twist
Had hard time following the story. Narration voice was poor. Good ending though. Little diahoibted.