Ice
A Qurilixen World Novella: Intergalactic Dating Agency

This later entry in the series from McBain is one of the best of his now legendary 87th Precinct novels. Though it's cold outside for the boys of the 87th, Ice turns out to be something different from what you think. There are some very true-to-life moments in this entry, and many of them are between......more

This is another very good entry in the 87th Precinct series. The title has multiple meanings and, as it would suggest, the story takes place during a brutally cold winter. As it opens, a dancer from a big show is walking home late at night. As she nears her apartment, someone steps out of the shadow......more

"[...] and suddenly she was more frightened that she'd ever been in her life, and she heard herself telling them the name, heard herself giving away her secret and her freedom, saying the name over and over again, babbling the name, and thought that would truly be the end of it, and was astonished t......more

Firstly I think it's only fair that I point out that despite this being no 36 in the 87th Precinct series this is the first that I've actually read (it was sent to me by a friend and I thought that I would at least give it a go) and murder/mystery isn't a genre that I habitually read . Both may have......more

Better than others in the 87th Street Precinct series, perhaps because the book had more plots than usual. Also, I was anxious to see what had become of Bert Kling following his discovery of his wife's infidelity, especially on top of his prior love life disasters. A .38 caliber gun is used in a ser......more