Calypso by Ed Mcbain

Calypso by Ed Mcbain

A calypso singer fresh off a gig walks home in a downpour, when shots tear through his head like steel rain. A girl 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 bestselling author Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series.

McBain, Ed: - Ed McBain was a pen name of the successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter. Born in New York, McBain served aboard a destroyer in the US Navy during World War II. After earning a degree from Hunter College and briefly teaching high school, he worked for a New York literary agency; his clients included Arthur C. Clarke and P.G. Wodehouse. In 1954, his novel The Blackboard Jungle was published under his legal name, Evan Hunter. His 87th Precinct series is one of the longest running crime series ever published. McBain was also a screenwriter; he adapted a short story into Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and wrote for Columbo as well as the NBC series based on his books, 87th Precinct. The Mystery Writers of America gave him the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1986, and he was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. He passed away in 2005, but his writing remains popular to this day.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781612181592
ISBN 10	1612181597
Title	Calypso
Author	Ed Mcbain
Series	87th Precinct Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thomas And Mercer
Year published	2012-03-02
Number of pages	254
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.