When the first moon-bound rocket blasted off from the Earth’s space station in 1983, it was as ready for every eventuality as scientists and engineers could make it. But neither the crew nor the authorities were prepared for the last-minute switch in the ship’s complement that upset carefully planned replacement schedules. Instead of a highly trained Air Force Academy graduate as the fifth man in the pioneering crew, the inaugural rocket headed into space with teen-age Ted Baker, an Academy senior. Around a tragic misunderstanding, Richard Marsten has traced a tale of high excitement from the Earth’s gleaming satellite space station to the ragged surface of a hostile Moon. His story of...

When the irresistible force of a giant corporation like Titanic Shoe meets an immovable, but tottering, object like the respectable shoe firm of Julien Kahn, something's got to give — and something does, explosively, surprisingly. Here is an authentic, behind-the-scenes excursion into the high-fashion world of heels and vamps and into the private worlds of two men who crashed head on — one striving for personal power, the other for personal integrity. Jefferson McQuade comes to the Kahn factory as the representative of the new owners, with his own ideas about what is needed to put the factory on a firm footing. Raymond Griffin, who has worked his way up to head of Kahn’s Cost...

Evan Hunter’s new novel is a fresh and powerful demonstration of the narrative gifts, the instinct for themes that concern us, the exuberant flow of invention that were responsible for the nation-wide impact of his best-selling Strangers When We Meet and The Blackboard Jungle. A Matter of Conviction is the story — told dramatically and in depth — of a sensational murder, the passions it arouses in a community, the people caught up in its tangled after-math. Above all, it is the story of the ethical dilemma imposed on the young prosecutor who values justice above the triumph of a conviction. The prosecutor, Henry Bell, is dedicated to his profession. He demands of himself an almost...

Det var en frygtelig hed augustdag. Steve Carella var netop vendt tilbage til Station 87 efter en dejlig sommerferie. Han følte sig overhovedet ikke oplagt til at tage fat på pligterne, som i første omgang betød en anmeldelse af en pyromanbrand - en ren rutinesag. Eller var det nu også det? Den amerikanske forfatter var født under navnet Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), men besluttede sig i 1952 for at skifte navn til Evan Hunter, og det er blandt andet under dette navn, at han fik succes. Hunter skrev både under sig eget navn, men benyttede sig også flittigt af forskellige pseudonymer, hvoraf Ed McBain muligvis er det mest kendte. Hunter udgav mere end 100 romaner, og særligt...

Из собрания сочинений, том 1. ISBN 5-85882-109-X.

На территории, относящейся к юрисдикции 87-го участка, кто-то убил певца калипсо, ранил его менеджера, а через несколько часов застрелил проститутку одним и тем же оружием. Детективы Карелла и Мейер пытаются выяснить, кто убийца, а тем временем убийства продолжаются...

A novella in the anthology titled Transgressions.

Рассказ про расследование отравления детективами из 87-го полицейского участка. С завязкой, где автор предложил сочинить концовку читателям. Один из которых это и сделал.

A story from a series about the 87th police station.

Когда детектив Стив Карелла, расследующий два загадочных убийства, обнаруживает, что его основные зацепки исходят от прекрасного экстрасенса, он отказывается от стандартных полицейских процедур ради жуткого мира оккультизма.