Killers Payoff, Ed McBain
Killers Payoff, Ed McBain
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Killer's Payoff

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Ed McBain

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/25/2014

Synopsis

It’s like an old-time gangster movie: a speeding car, a blazing gun…and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders. But who pulled the high-powered trigger that turned Sy Kramer from a blackmailer into a chalk outline? Was it the politician’s wife with a pornographic past? The soda-pop tycoon desperate to keep a business-busting bungle bottled up? Or was it whoever was paying Kramer a small fortune to hide what must’ve been one very big bad? It falls to detectives Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes of the 87th Precinct to pound the pavement of the city and beat the bushes of the backwoods for the suspect with the best motive, the most blistering weapon, and the biggest set of brass ones. En route, they’ll meet pretty ladies and petty lowlifes, great white hunters and gray flannel ad execs, and, when the going gets rough, maybe even their match. It’s all in several long days’—and even longer nights’—work for the guys who make their living behind the badge, and under the gun.

About Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

This is another solid early entry in McBain's 87th Precinct series. At this point in the series, McBain was still grooming the character of Cotton Hawes to be a major player on the 87th Precinct's team of detectives and much of the book focuses on him. In particular, McBain was under instruction to......more

Goodreads review by George K.

"Μια σφαίρα για τον εκβιαστή", εκδόσεις Bell. Χρονολογικά πρόκειται για την έκτη ιστορία στην σειρά του 87ου Αστυνομικού Τμήματος, η οποία έκανε ιδιαίτερα γνωστό τον πολύ καλό αυτό συγγραφέα. Τελευταία φορά που διάβασα βιβλίο της σειράς αυτής ήταν τον Ιανουάριο του 2015 και η αλήθεια είναι ότι μου έλ......more

Goodreads review by Michael

The guys at the 87th Precinct have a proper little mystery on their hands when serial blackmailer Sy Kramer gets blown away in a drive-by shooting. They find there are no shortage of suspects. My copy of Killer's Payoff had a fascinating introduction by the author in which he is fairly scathing of t......more

Goodreads review by Jason

Despite being fairly hard-boiled procedurals these novels have developed an odd sort of light-heartedness in the writing as the series has progressed. It works for me. And once again the introduction detailing the continuing battle between author and publisher steals the show.......more

Quotes

“The snap and crackle of McBain’s dialogue is unforgettable. A master.” —James Naughtie, The Times

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