Evan Hunter Knihy

Policajti zo slávneho 87. obvodu majú tentoraz objasniť vraždu muzikálovej tanečnice, ktorá sa neskoro v noci sama vracia po skončení predstavenia domov. Je mrazivá newyorská noc, plná snehu, ale sneh je aj slangový výraz pre drogy...

Jsme opět v 87. revíru, kde je zločin na denním pořádku. Nejdřív přijde o život mladá krásná milenka bohatého pána. Kdosi ji podřeže a zohaví. Vyšetřování se vleče. Potom přijde na řadu onen bohatý pán. Kdosi ho zastřelí. Když je pak zastřelena i jeho současná manželka, padá největší podezření na jeho bývalou. Ale v okamžiku, kdy kulka usmrtí i ji, začíná detektiv Steve Carella znovu a téměř od nuly. O čem svědčí pozoruhodná erotická korespondence, nalezená v bytě první zavražděné? A jsou známi všichni odesilatelé a adresáti? A přitom by Steve nejraději vyšetřoval úplně jiný případ. Brutální vraždu svého otce…

Osmdesát milionů očí čtyřiceti milionů diváků se upírá na televizní obrazovku. Na programu je pořad oblíbeného baviče Stana Gifforda. Ze svého křesla doma se dívá i Steve Carella. Program se rozvíjí normálně až do okamžiku, kdy se Giffordovi zjevně udělá špatně; po chvíli klesá bezvládně do židle. Stan Gifford je mrtev. Otrávil se strofantinem. Jde o vraždu nebo sebevraždu? K sebevraždě neměl důvod, ale kdo mu tedy v případě vraždy podal ten rychle působí lék, když je jasné, že se k němu v rozhodující době nikdo nepřiblížil? Detektivové sedmaosmdesátky se už dávno nezabývali tak zdánlivě neuvěřitelným případem. Podezřelých z televizního studia je ovšem dostatek a při vyšetřování ochotně pomáhají manželka zemřelého i jeho osobní lékař. Tentokrát pomůže až náhoda. Meyer Meyer má rýmu…

This mugger is special. He preys on women, waiting in the darkness…then comes from behind, attacks them, and snatches their purses. He tells them not to scream and as they're on the ground, reeling with pain and fear, he bows and nonchalantly says, “Clifford thanks you, madam.” But when he puts one victim in the hospital and the next in the morgue, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are not amused and will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. Dashing young patrolman Bert Kling is always there to help a friend. And when a friend's sister-in-law is the mugger's murder victim, Bert's personal reasons to find the maniacal killer soon become a burning obsession…and it could easily get him killed. The second book in the 87th Precinct series, The Mugger is an Ed McBain classic, a nuanced portrayal of justice and vengeance hailed by the Daily Mirror as “a masterpiece of crime writing…and there's nobody who does it better.”

The third Matthew Hope mystery novel from the acclaimed author of the popular 87th Precinct series. What begins as an ordinary one-night-stand for attorney Matthew Hope turns into a deadly mystery when the woman--a 60's rock star trying for a comeback--is brutally murdered, and her daughter turns up missing.

Soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope has never been known for taking easy cases, and this is no exception. A mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida's steamy west coast, and the only person who doesn't have a motive is confessing--and insists that Hope defend him.

Someone killed Annie Boone, but was she an innocent victim or the target of a hit? As Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th precinct pick up the pieces of her interupted life, they move relentlessly closer to some answers yet farther from others. Struggling to find the weak link, the detectives find themselves facing a cold, hard truth they'd prefer not to know.

Detektivní román z prostředí amerického velkoměsta, kde jsou postupně zastřeleni tři detektivové a jeden zraněn. Pátrání, které je motivováno jako pomsta některého z postižených zločinců, je bezúspěšné. Do pátrání zasahuje i tisk. Nakonec na stopu pachatele přivedou motivy ze soukromého života jednoho ze zavražděných.

At 22 Jason Trench was a lieutenant commander in the US Navy and determined to defeat international communism. For it was Cuba that presented such an insult to national pride, and it was his attempt to rid America of Castro's country that he mobilized his army of 42 men.

Larry Cole has everything a man could want. He loves his wife, Eve, and is devoted to their two small sons. His career as an architect is both creatively satisfying and financially rewarding. His house in suburban Pinecrest Manor is attractive and comfortable.   But then Larry sees a new neighbor standing at the school bus stop. Margaret Gault is young, blond, beautiful—and married. She’s everything Larry didn’t realize was missing from his life, and he must have her. Maggie tells Larry she’s never been in love. But this isn’t about love. It’s about need and desire. Touch and taste and risk. And lies.   Larry and Maggie surrender to lust, knowing their secret motel rendezvous and lunch-hour trysts will amount to nothing; they will always be strangers to each other. But actions have consequences. And sometimes consequences can be deadly.   Author Evan Hunter adapted his riveting novel of infidelity into a film starring Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. A torrid tale of sexual compulsion and the secrets lurking beneath the most placid of surfaces, Strangers When We Meet is an early masterpiece from the creator of the bestselling 87th Precinct series.

Fourteen spine-tingling stories of suspense include P. D. James's ""The Victim,"" in which a gorgeous celebrity uses her infatuated ex-husband as a murder weapon, and tales by Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, and other authors.CONTENTSA Man Around the House by Nancy PickardA Glowing Future by Ruth RendellCatalyst by Evan HunterDeath of a Romance Writer by Joan HessBy the Time You Read This by Larry S. HokeAll At Once, No Alice by Cornell WoolrichI Don’t Do Divorce Cases by David JusticeKilling Howard by Ralph McInernyThe Victim by P.D. JamesThe Brothers by Lawrence TreatBreakfast Television by Robert BarnardA Letter Too Late by Henry SlesarThe Betrayers by Stanley EllinThe Perfect Alibi by Patricia Highsmith

Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "dazzling, " Mischief continues McBain's bestselling 87th Precinct series as the Deaf Man wreaks havoc throughout Isola. The notorious Deaf Man is planning his most devilish million-dollar caper to date. In the squadroom of the 87th Precint, an otherwise slow March night is enlivened by the murder of a graffiti writer. Over the course of several weeks, more of the city's outlaw artists are killed under mysterious circumstances, and a team run by Detective Parker must put the pieces together.

Stories included: Man Overboard (Sir Winston Churchill) Timber (John Galsworthy) The Angry Street (G. K. Chesterton) The Call of Wings (Agatha Christie) The Cherries (Lawrence Durrell) A Man From Glasgow (Somerset Maugham) Earth to Earth (Robert Graves) The Grey Ones (J. B. Priestley) The Man Who Didn't Ask Why (C. S. Forester) All But Empty (Graham Greene) Animals or Human Beings (Angus Wilson) Something Strange (Kingsley Amis) The Post-Mortem Murder (Sinclair Lewis) The Dance (F. Scott Fitzgerald) A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) The Bronze Door (Raymond Chandler) A Man Who Had No Eyes (MacKinlay Kantor) The Affair at 7 Rue de M-- (John Steinback) The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith) Inferiority Complex (Evan Hunter) The Terrible Answer (Paul Gallico) Miriam (Truman Capote) Exterminator (William Burroughs) During the Jurassic (John Updike)

Román v dvoch častiach. Dva romány v jednej knihe od autora, ktorý roky rozvíja odlišné autorské štýly pod odlišnými menami. Tentoraz ide o príbeh úspešného ženatého architekta, ktorý v sebe objaví netušené chúťky. Sledujeme ho počas jedného večera a noci v New Yorku, keď sa usiluje zbaliť v bare náhodnú slečnu. Napokon mu zostanú len inzeráty a ocitne sa v bordeli. V druhej časti sa rozbieha vyšetrovanie vraždy prostitútky, o ktorom architekt nič netuší. Rovnako netuší, že pozornosť detektívov sa upriamuje práve naňho.

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