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Overview

In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for the 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful—especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century long vanished. Meanwhile 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he's on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent the evening carving up a hooker.

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Ed McBain, author of nearly 50 novels revolving around the fictitious, gritty 87th Police Precinct, insists that there is not one definite explanation of why he chose the number 87. "No significance at all," he maintains, "except maybe in Hong Kong, where high numbers are considered lucky and where, I guess, an eight and a seven combined would be most fortuitous. I chose the 8-7 only because there was no 87th precinct in New York." With the Big Apple as a backdrop and plenty of prostitutes, pimps, players, and protagonists to dot the blotter of the 87th, Ed McBain took off on a mystery-writing blitz that has solved many a grisly crime and handcuffed legions of fans. Now the "best crime writer in the business" has produced Nocturne, his latest case involving the celebrated precinct.

Nocturne showcases the return of McBain's two most popular crime solvers, Detectives Carella and Hawes of the 87th. On the coldest night of the year, a seemingly destitute old woman is found lying inside the doorway to her shabby one-bedroom apartment, a shattered liquor bottle by her side and two bullet holes in her chest. The window to the fire escape is ajar, and Carella and Hawes assume the case is as open-and-shut as the window — a robbery gone wrong. It's never so simple, however, when McBain is at the helm. The mystery deepens when the dead woman is discovered to be Svetlana Dyalovich, a famed classical pianist fallen from her prime, when she had headlined in concert halls across the world.

Carella and Hawes embark on a hunt for the murder weapon, and the hand that held it,andit is a wild and shady ride through the backstreets and steamy alleyways of the city. Each moment the suspect list grows larger, including Svetlana's granddaughter, a tough, sexy lounge singer flanked by scowling bodyguards at all hours.

With classic page-turning flair, the author introduces an eclectic cast of characters, hanging out everywhere from trendy uptown nightclubs to seedy abandoned movie theaters, crack-dealers' alleys, and the forensics lab where the murder weapon is identified. When a young prostitute, her pimp, and a drug dealer are murdered, the hunt for the murderer and the connections between the pianist and the city's sin-filled underground intensify.

Carella and Hawes are working late into the night once again, much to the delight of McBain's legion of crime-writing fans, who visit the underbelly of New York City through the prose of his pen. In the world of Nocturne, darkness overtakes the daylight, and only some of the victimizers are truly criminals.

Bill Sheehan reviews horror, suspense, and science fiction for Cemetery Dance, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other publications. His book-length critical study of the fiction of Peter Straub, At the Foot of the Story Tree, will be published by Subterranean Press (www.subterraneanpress.com) in the spring of 2000.

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Another great yarn in a magnificent series....Stunning: flawless dialogue, superb pacing, razor-sharp humor, and characters that make Bobby Simone and Andy Sipowicz of television's NYPD Blue look like cardboard cutouts.
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Houston Post
The best crime writer in the business.
Marilyn Stasio
Before this long, dark night is through, Mr. McBain will make us care about a 19-year-old hooker who is savagely killed in a gang rape, a pimp and a drug dealer who also die hard and 25 roosters torn up in a cockfight. Living or dead, even the bit players twitch with animation, especially the ones caught with their mouths wide open telling a dumb joke, getting teary over a Johnny Mercer song, arguing about a movie title or praying for their lives. The stories behind these bluesy vignettes of one night's life and sudden death in the city can be sad, sordid, bizarre or disgusting, but they are never not real.
— The New York Times
People Magazine
Packs a wallop....McBain is one of the best in the business.
Publishers Weekly
87th Precinct stalwarts Carella and Hawes, appearing in the 48th entry in this still vibrant series, catch the case of Svetlana Dyalovich Helder, an elderly Russian woman shot to death at her modest apartment. In her youth an acclaimed pianist who played the great concert halls of America and Europe, Svetlana, at the time of her death, lived on welfare, drank too much and listened to old 78 rpm recordings of her glory days. The murder motive looks like burglary until Carella and Hawes learn that Svetlana had withdrawn $125,000 from her bank hours earlier. A neighbor reports having seen a tall blond man at Svetlana's door shortly before the murder. After the shooting, a blond man delivered a package to the hotel where Svetlana's granddaughter, Priscilla, stayed. Meantime, over in the 88th, "Fat Ollie" Weeks investigates the deaths of a pimp and a drug dealer. That leads to a sexually mutilated hooker, also killed the night before, and a bookie who remembers a tall, blond bettor looking for a gun. As the cases converge, McBain serves up his usual mix of urban insights, terrible jokes, sex, violence and dialogue that crackles from every page. Followers of this 40-year-old series will be satisfied, as always, and new fans will be captured by this latest example of McBain's enduring virtuosity. (May)
Library Journal
A veteran of the venerable 87th investigates the death of a concert pianist.
Marilyn Stasio
Right away, we're hooked. -- New York Times Book Review

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446518055
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 4/23/2004
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
  • Series: 87th Precinct Series , #48
  • Product dimensions: 9.00 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 0.81 (d)

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Q:  As someone who makes his home at least part of the time in New York City, where are places that you might go to people-watch? Do characteristics of passersby on the streets often make it into your books?

A:  The subway is a great people-watching place, but actually all of New York City is an outdoor spectator sport. I watch people everywhere, and I listen to them, and I'm sure they all end up in my books sooner or later, in one guise or another.

Q:  Do you use a computer to write? If so, what kind? What programs do you run on it?

A:  I do use a computer, the Macintosh IIsi. I run three programs for it: Microsoft Word for the writing, FileMaker Pro for the contracts, and Quicken for the accounting.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2001

    Carella needs more personality

    Another interesting plot by McBain but the characters are so flat.....what you see is what you get. I know the characters as well as if I encountered them on my front porch..typically cop, dry and dull. Story good, ending not the usual but liven up these guys Ed!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 1, 2001

    NOBODY DOES IT BETTER

    Ed McBain AKA Evan Hunter has set the standard for police procedural crime fiction. Nobody does it better. In fact, he is the single most influential American novelist in this or any genre.

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