Zwei Männer gehen im Regen, als plötzlich Schüsse aus einem Hauseingang fallen. Ein Mann wird am Hals getroffen und taumelt, während Blut in den Regen spritzt. Er lässt seinen Gitarrenkasten fallen und sieht den zweiten Schuss.
Evan Hunters neuer Roman „Das war im letzten Sommer“ bietet meisterhafte psychologische Portraits und eine packende Handlung. Vier junge Menschen erleben auf einer Ferieninsel eine heitere Idylle, die sich schnell in einen schockierenden Höhepunkt verwandelt. Der Roman thematisiert die verborgene Brutalität und das Chaos in einer modernen, scheinbar perfekten Gesellschaft.
Roman
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Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct faces the precinct's greatest foe, the Deaf Man, when the criminal returns to a life of crime in order to murder the city's graffiti artists
Een Amerikaanse rechercheur ziet een verband tussen de moorden op een jonge vrouw en een drugshandelaar.
The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared Susan Brauer? The stack of unsigned erotic letters in her possession was the first clue. Then the murder of Susan's lover, a married lawyer in his sixties, leads the cops of the 87th to the women left behind: the lawyer's wife, his ex, his daughters. And for Detective Carella, his own father's senseless death in a bakery holdup sears through the intense summer heat -- and sends him on a fevered hunt for the one who made his mother a widow and shrouded his family in grief.
Ottanta milioni di occhi di quaranta milioni di spettatori sono puntati sullo schermo televisivo. È in onda il programma del popolare intrattenitore Stan Gifford. Anche Steve Carella lo guarda da casa. Il programma si sviluppa normalmente fino a quando Gifford non sembra sentirsi male; dopo un momento, crolla senza sensi sulla sedia. Stan Gifford è morto. Si è avvelenato con lo strofantina. È omicidio o suicidio? Non aveva motivi per il suicidio, ma chi gli ha somministrato quel farmaco a rapido effetto, se è chiaro che in quel momento decisivo nessuno si è avvicinato a lui? Gli investigatori della settantasettesima non si erano mai occupati di un caso apparentemente così incredibile. Tuttavia, ci sono molti sospetti nello studio televisivo e durante le indagini sono disponibili ad aiutare sia la moglie del defunto che il suo medico personale. Questa volta, però, sarà il caso a dare una mano. Meyer Meyer ha il raffreddore…
Keine der angesprochenen Frauen schätzte das anständige Verhalten des Mannes, der sie angegriffen hatte. Sie lagen auf dem Boden in einer Blutlache, wanden sich vor Schmerz oder waren bewusstlos und nahmen das Dankeschön des jungen Mannes nicht wahr. Zuvor hatte er sie gnadenlos mit einem Stock geschlagen, mit Fäusten verprügelt und getreten, um seine grundlose Aggression an ihnen auszulassen. Er wartete auf sie wie ein Raubtier in den dunklen Gassen, wo selten das Licht der großen Stadt hinkommt. Dann beruhigte er sich, bedankte sich und ging, ohne sich um ihr Schicksal zu kümmern. Der wohlerzogene Clifford… Die meisten Frauen überlebten, waren jedoch geprellt und psychisch zerstört. Doch dann übertrieb es Clifford. Sein letztes Opfer, eine junge Frau unter zwanzig, landete direkt im Leichenschauhaus. Sie hatte jedoch Glück, sie hatte einen Freund, einen Polizisten, einen gewöhnlichen jungen Streifenbeamten. Er wusste, dass die Ermittlungen zu den brutalen Angriffen auf Frauen in der Zuständigkeit der Detektive lagen, beschloss jedoch, die Sache selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Er ahnte nicht, dass er damit sein Leben gefährdete. Sein Name war Bert Kling.
Milovali se jen jedinou noc... teď musí najít jejího vraha. Sie ist ein Rockstar der 60er Jahre, die nach einem Comeback strebt, er ist ein geschiedener Anwalt, der versucht, sein Leben wieder in den Griff zu bekommen. Ihre gemeinsame Nacht ist kurz, aber voller Leidenschaft. Als am nächsten Tag bekannt wird, dass sie brutal ermordet wurde und ihre sechsjährige Tochter verschwunden ist, übernimmt Matthew Hope die schwierigste Aufgabe in ihrer Beziehung – den Entführer und Mörder zu finden und zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen…
By day the city works. By night it plays, and everyone is invited to the game: the rich the poor, the adventurous and the tame. Sometimes, the playground turns deadly. Sometimes, the homicide detectives from the 87th Precinct are invited, too... Sadie When She Died The victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carella is sure someone was hired to make the murder look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets begin to come out of the closet. Now happily married, Steve Carella and unhappily single Bert Kling are entering a city's sexual underground to find out which is more dangerous: a world where anything goes or a husband with secrets of his own. Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1477805613
In einem ruhigen floridianischen Städtchen wird die Gemeinschaft von der Nachricht über einen blutigen Mitternachtsmord an der Frau eines örtlichen Arztes und seinen beiden Töchtern erschüttert. Bereits am ersten Tag nach dem Verbrechen scheint die Suche nach dem Mörder abgeschlossen, doch das unerwartete Geständnis des jungen Michael bringt sowohl die Polizei als auch den Anwalt Matthew Hope, der uns durch die Geschichte führt, in Zweifel. Er befragt beharrlich alle Personen, die mit der Tragödie in Verbindung stehen könnten, und trägt letztendlich zur Aufdeckung des Mörders bei. Die Lösung ist jedoch so tragisch, da die Hauptschuld bei jemandem liegt, der ganz anders ist.
Someone killed Annie Boone, but was she an innocent victim or the target of a hit? As Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th precinct pick up the pieces of her interupted life, they move relentlessly closer to some answers yet farther from others. Struggling to find the weak link, the detectives find themselves facing a cold, hard truth they'd prefer not to know.
THE HEROES OF THE CITY'S STREETS BECOME THE HUNTED -- IN THIS CRIME FICTION CLASSIC ED MCBAIN'S FIRST 87th PRECINCT NOVEL Swift, silent, and deadly -- someone is knocking off the 87th Precinct's finest, one by one. The "how" of the killings is obvious: three .45 shots from the dark add up to one, two, three very dead detectives. The "why" and the "who" are the Precinct's headaches now. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective buys it. With one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city's underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head.... Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
At 22 Jason Trench was a lieutenant commander in the US Navy and determined to defeat international communism. For it was Cuba that presented such an insult to national pride, and it was his attempt to rid America of Castro's country that he mobilized his army of 42 men.
Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes. Called "Report to the Commissioner," it follows a cunning detective named Olivia Wesley Watts, who, apart from being female and slim, is rather like Fat Ollie himself. While Ollie's responding to the squeal about the dead councilman, his leather dispatch case is stolen from the back of his car -- and in it, the only copy of his precious manuscript. Joined by Carella and Kling from the neighboring 87th Precinct, Ollie investigates the homicide with all the exquisite crudeness, insensitivity, and determination for which he is famous. But the theft of his first novel fills Ollie with a renewed passion for old-fashioned detective work. Following the exploits of one of Ed McBain's most beloved detectives, this lively and complicated novel -- the fifty-second in the award-winning 87th Precinct series -- is perhaps his best book yet.
Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog--these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face. But most serial killers don't use guns. Most serial killers don't strike five times in two weeks. And most serial killers' prey share something more than being over fifty years of age. Now it falls to Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues in the 87th Precinct to find out what-or whom-the victims had in common before another body is found. With trademark wit and sizzling dialogue, McBain unravels a mystery and examines the dreams we chase in the darkening hours before the fiddlers have fled.
Larry Cole hat alles, was ein Mann sich wünschen kann. Er liebt seine Frau Eve und ist seinen beiden kleinen Söhnen zugetan. Seine Karriere als Architekt ist sowohl kreativ befriedigend als auch finanziell lohnend. Sein Haus im vorstädtischen Pinecrest Manor ist attraktiv und komfortabel. Doch dann sieht Larry eine neue Nachbarin an der Bushaltestelle. Margaret Gault ist jung, blond, schön – und verheiratet. Sie ist alles, was Larry nicht wusste, dass ihm in seinem Leben fehlt, und er muss sie haben. Maggie sagt Larry, dass sie noch nie verliebt war. Aber es geht nicht um Liebe. Es geht um Bedürfnis und Verlangen. Berührung und Geschmack und Risiko. Und Lügen. Larry und Maggie ergeben sich der Lust, wissend, dass ihre geheimen Treffen im Motel und ihre Mittagspausenabenteuer nichts bedeuten werden; sie werden sich immer fremd bleiben. Doch Taten haben Konsequenzen. Und manchmal können Konsequenzen tödlich sein.
"Candyland merges the bestselling talents of the acclaimed author known as both Evan Hunter and Ed McBain."Candyland begins in classic Evan Hunter style....Alone in New York City on business, Benjamin Thorpe spends his empty nights on a compulsive quest for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to a confrontation in a midtown bordello and a searing self-revelation. And suddenly we are in Ed McBain territory....Emma Boyle of the Special Victims Unit investigates a young prostitute's murder. As the foggy events of the night in question come into focus, Benjamin Thorpe becomes a viable suspect. The excruciating suspense is total McBain -- and the combined impact of "Candyland is unforgettable.
Investigating the murder of a warehouse watchman, the cops of the 87th Precinct face a disturbing outbreak in cash-related crimes that link a prostitute's death, a warehouse fire, and a slum redevelopment deal. Reprint.
They never saw their executioner. Because each victim had this in common: they were blind. Steve Carella, a weary detective very much in love with his deaf wife, is stymied in a hunt that began when a Vietnam veteran, his sight taken in war, was found with his head nearly separated from his body. But as the bizarre killing spree goes on, Carella begins to look into the first victim's dreams. And what he sees is a panorama of war, sexuality, secrets, and torment -- and one man's pure, blind rage...
Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires
Fourteen spine-tingling stories of suspense include P. D. James's ""The Victim,"" in which a gorgeous celebrity uses her infatuated ex-husband as a murder weapon, and tales by Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, and other authors.CONTENTSA Man Around the House by Nancy PickardA Glowing Future by Ruth RendellCatalyst by Evan HunterDeath of a Romance Writer by Joan HessBy the Time You Read This by Larry S. HokeAll At Once, No Alice by Cornell WoolrichI Don’t Do Divorce Cases by David JusticeKilling Howard by Ralph McInernyThe Victim by P.D. JamesThe Brothers by Lawrence TreatBreakfast Television by Robert BarnardA Letter Too Late by Henry SlesarThe Betrayers by Stanley EllinThe Perfect Alibi by Patricia Highsmith
Stories included: Man Overboard (Sir Winston Churchill) Timber (John Galsworthy) The Angry Street (G. K. Chesterton) The Call of Wings (Agatha Christie) The Cherries (Lawrence Durrell) A Man From Glasgow (Somerset Maugham) Earth to Earth (Robert Graves) The Grey Ones (J. B. Priestley) The Man Who Didn't Ask Why (C. S. Forester) All But Empty (Graham Greene) Animals or Human Beings (Angus Wilson) Something Strange (Kingsley Amis) The Post-Mortem Murder (Sinclair Lewis) The Dance (F. Scott Fitzgerald) A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) The Bronze Door (Raymond Chandler) A Man Who Had No Eyes (MacKinlay Kantor) The Affair at 7 Rue de M-- (John Steinback) The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith) Inferiority Complex (Evan Hunter) The Terrible Answer (Paul Gallico) Miriam (Truman Capote) Exterminator (William Burroughs) During the Jurassic (John Updike)
"Kill me if you can" was Pepe Miranda's challenge. Murderer, two-bit hero of the street gangs, he was holed up somewhere in the 87th Precinct, making the cops look like fools and cheered on by every neighbourhood punk. Not a challenge the detectives in the squadroom could leave alone.
A collaboration between Evan Hunter and Ed McBain in which Hunter sets the scene for a crime, then, writing as Ed McBain brings into play police procedure to try and solve it. A novel in two parts.
