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Абсолютно невинным выглядит обращение к адвокату Мэтью Хоупу молодой женщины Джилл Лоутон с просьбой посодействовать ей в разводе со сгинувшим где-то на заснеженном Севере супругом. Но что-то на этот раз с Севера задул по-настоящему студеный ветер: дело обрастает трупами, как снежный ком. Хоупу не остается ничего другого, как обратиться за помощью к небезызвестному детективу Стиву Карелле.

В 87-й участок приходит вооружённая женщина, которая желает во что бы то ни стало убить Стива Кареллу. Её заложниками становятся все находящиеся в здании детективы. Карелла тем временем проводит расследование на месте предполагаемого самоубийства. Ситуация усугубляется в тот момент, когда в участке появляется жена Кареллы…

Американский писатель Эд Макбейн ставит своих героев в экстремальные условия, и они всегда выбирают именно то решение, которое подсказывает мораль и справедливость. В романе «Острый каблук» действие происходит на обувной фабрике. Ее хозяин не только держит в страхе своих подчиненных, но и имеет власть над всей округой. И только один из работников фабрики решается бросить властному хозяину вызов, ведь тот покушается на его любимую девушку.

Серия детективов «87-й полицейский участок», по мнению американских критиков, считается одним из самых значительных произведений в своем жанре. «Сэди после смерти» – это захватывающая история о полицейском, работающем над делом об убийстве, которое на первый взгляд кажется простым. Подозрительно простым…

Matthew Hope spotted her on North Sabal Beach, one of those fabulous Gulf Coast keys that yearly draw ever more people to condo life in the Sunshine State. She was spectacular, “carved of alabaster, pale white exquisite face framed by ebony cascades of hair, the flesh of her naked breasts almost translucent, lustrous in the hot rays of the sun. wide hips flaring above the restraining strings of the bikini patch, a shimmering mirage in black and white that came closer and closer, pale gray eyes in that incredibly lovely face, the scent of mimosa as she passed and was gone.” That was on Saturday. On Monday, Michelle Harper came to Hope as a client. Below the short sleeves of her T-shirt, ugly bruises obliterated the whiteness of her arms. Adhesive was taped across the bridge of her nose and both her eyes were discolored, one puffed almost entirely shut. She wanted Hope’s help in filing a complaint with the police. She wanted her husband arrested and put away. On Tuesday. Michelle Harper was found dead on Whisper Key Beach. Her hands and legs were bound with wire hangers and she had been burned to death. An empty five-gallon gasoline can lay some ten feet from the body. By four that afternoon. George Harper had been charged with the brutal murder of his wife. Big, black, and monstrously ugly, George Harper vociferously denied the charge. And somehow, Hope believed him. But in committing himself to help Harper, Matthew Hope is drawn into a hall of mirrors filled with lies, sexual perversity, and thrill- seeking corruption. The result, says The Sunday Times (London), is “a strictly X- rated fairy tale” and a thoroughly good read.

Shimmering blonde hair framing an exquisite pale face. Deep green eyes, a generous mouth. Matthew Hope took one look and fell instantly in love. Sarah Whittaker had everything: stunning good looks, youth, money, social standing. Everything, that is, but her freedom. Because Sarah Whittaker was currently residing, against her inclinations and her will, in Knott’s Retreat — familiarly known to the residents of Florida’s booming West Coast as Nut’s Retreat. In the State of Florida, County of Calusa, Sarah Whittaker was a certified paranoid schizophrenic. That’s what the doctors said. It’s what her widowed mother said. It’s what the court-ordered psychiatric commitment papers said. It was not what Sarah Whittaker said — and that was why she had called Matthew Hope. Would he, she asked, act as her attorney and fight for her freedom — not to mention fighting for the $650,000 left her by her father and now controlled by her mother. Hope might have lost his heart, but he hadn’t lost his wits. He probed Sarah’s story of a mother driven by hate to confine her only child to a mental institution and decided she was telling the truth. He took the case. And in so doing was led into a hall of mirrors in which reality and delusion blurred into murder, mutilation, and the greatest danger Hope had ever known.

Подозрение в убийстве еврейского священника на заднем дворе синагоги падает на ярого местного антисемита, который не раз угрожал ребе. Но после убийства главного подозреваемого установление истинных мотивов и личности преступника становятся делом случая.

The four books that make up this novel — Amanda, Gillian, Julia and Kate — span three generations and nearly thirty years of time. Except that Kate is Amanda’s niece, none of these women is related, but their lives cross and recross, linked by Julia’s son David. Julia Regan belongs to the “older” generation in the sense that her son David was old enough to fight in the war. That he ended the war in the stockade was due more to his mother than to himself, and the book devoted to Julia shows what sort of woman she was — why, having gone to Italy before the war with an ailing sister, she constantly put off her return to her family — and why, therefore, David is the man he is. Unsure of himself and bitter (for good reason) David finds solace in Gillian, who had been Amanda’s room-mate in college during the war. He loses her because he does not know what he wants from life. Gillian is an enchanting character who knows very well what she wants: she is determined to become an actress. In spite of the extreme tenderness and beauty of her love affair with David (and Evan Hunter has caught exactly the gaieties and misunderstandings of two young people very much in love, when a heightened awareness lifts the ordinary into the extraordinary and the beautiful into the sublime) she is not prepared to continue indefinitely an unmarried liaison, and she leaves him. When, eleven years later and still unmarried, she finally tastes success, the taste is of ashes, and she wonders whether the price has not been too high. Amanda is considerably less sure of herself than Gillian, though foe a time it looks as if her music will bring her achievement. But she has in her too much of her sexually cold mother to be passionate in love or in her music. She marries Matthew who is a lawyer, and, without children of their own, they bring up her sister’s child, Kate, who, in the last book, is growing up out of childhood into womanhood — with a crop of difficulties of her own. Unlike all his earlies novels (except in extreme readability) Mothers and Daughters is not an exposure of social evils, but a searching and sympathetic study of people.

Главные герои двух вошедших в сборник романов очень разные люди - исполнительный и честный полицейский и идущий напролом частный детектив, мало чем отличающийся от тех, за кем он охотится. Но, как выясняется, оба метода ведения дела дают результат, а это главное. Как всегда, злые получат по заслугам, а добропорядочные победят, хотя и после суровых испытаний.

Эд Макбейн стал первым американцем, получившим награду «Бриллиантовый кинжал Картье» от Ассоциации детективных писателей Великобритании. «Кукла» – это история красивой жизни и ужасной смерти известной фотомодели…

Активные, решительные действия, сила, мужество, ум и здоровый юмор — отличительные черты героев впервые публикуемых на русском языке произведений известных мастеров американского детектива. Произведения, вошедшие в сборник, опубликованы на языке оригинала до 27 мая 1973 года.

“ ‘You’ll have to speak louder,’ the voice said. ‘I’m a little hard of hearing.’ ” What with one thing and another, such as a highly successful cat burglar and what seemed to be a hippie crucifixion, the 87th Precinct didn’t need The Deaf Man. Especially since he’d already put in two previous appearances resulting in blackmail, murder and general havoc. But they had him, certainly, they very definitely had him — or was it he that had them? This time, The Deaf Man thinks it fitting that a police detective will help him rob a bank. Detective Steve Carella, to be exact. So, each day, he sends Carella a photostat in the morning mail. The first two pictures of J. Edgar Hoover, the next are of George Washington. All are clues, obviously, but what do they mean? Who, where, when and how? This is tough, taut, funny mystery with a number of very peculiar cases and a most surprising ending, played against Ed McBain’s highly-detailed knowledge of police and detective procedure.

It is late afternoon, Friday, October 13. Detectives Carella, Meyer and Kling of the 87th Squad are waiting for their relief, due at 5:45 P.M. At 5:15, the telephone rings. Meyer answers, listens, jots down a few notes, then says, “Steve, Bert, you want to take this? Some nut just shot up a bookstore on Culver Avenue. There’s three people laying dead on the floor.” The crowd had already gathered around the bookshop. There were two uniformed cops on the sidewalk, and a squad car was pulled up to the curb across the street. The people pulled back instinctively when they heard the wail of the siren on the police sedan. Carella got out first, slamming the door behind him. He waited for Kling to come around the car, and then both men started for the shop. At the door, the patrolman said, “Lot of dead people in there, sir.” A routine squeal for the 87th, answered with routine dispatch. But there was nothing routine about it a moment later. What Bert Kling found in the wreckage of the shop very nearly destroyed him. Enraged, embittered, the youngest detective on the squad begins a nightmarish search for a crazed and wanton killer. The hunt is relentless and intensely personal — not only for Kling but for every man on the squad. Lady, Lady, I Did It! like all 87th Precinct stories, is charged with emotion and moves from the first page with the relentless, driving intensity that is characteristic of Ed McBain.

В книгу включены две повести о знаменитых американских гангстерах - грабителе банков Джоне Диллинджере и о неразлучных Бонни и Клайде, роман о неуловимом домушнике Глухом и детективно - шпионская повесть о похищении стриптизерши…

The Crofts live with their blond, teenage daughter, Lissie, in a converted sawmill in Rutledge, Connecticut, an exclusive community of achievers. Lissie’s mother, Connie, is a Vassar graduate; her father, Jamie, a successful photographer. But these were the sixties — the time of Nixon and moon walks, prosperity and war, Woodstock and Chappaquiddick — and the Crofts are caught in a time slot that not only caused alienation but in fact encouraged it. Lissie, in her rush to independence and self-identity, along with others of her generation, goes her own way. She leaves school, skips to London and begins a journey across Europe to India. Breaking all the rules, flouting her parents’ values, she causes in Jamie a deep concern that frequently turns to impotent rage. When Lissie returns, she is surprised and angry to find that things are not the same. While she was out living her own life, her dad was falling in love with the woman he would eventually marry. Hurt and confused over her parents’ divorce, Lissie is not ready to accept for them what she sees as clear-cut rights for herself. And try as he will, her father cannot comprehend the new Lissie. More than a novel about the dissolution of a family in a turbulent decade, Love, Dad is an incredibly perceptive story of father and daughter and their special love — a love that endures even though understanding has been swept away in the whirlwind of change.

She is a Broadway dancer, exquisite and mercurial. He is a dedicated psychiatrist, happily married to a beautiful woman, the father of two lovely children vacationing with their mother on Martha’s Vineyard. “Good morning, sir”, she said, as she passed David Chapman on a sunny June day in Central Park. Moments later, she was locked in mortal combat with a mugger, and David came to her rescue... They tell each other some truths, but only some. They know each other’s mysteries, but only some. They slip into a realm of sensual deception and imminent danger... For who is Kate Duggan really, the woman who makes sexual fantasies come true? And who is David Chapman, the doctor who spends his day with other people’s neuroses, guilt, and lies? Now, in the heat of a New York City summer, they will learn everything — when a stalker turns their mad lust into a murderous affair.

Полицейские 87-го участка безуспешно пытаются поймать серийного грабителя. Известно только то, что он никогда не покушается на жизнь своих жертв и носит солнцезащитные очки необычной формы. Но неожиданно на месте убийства молодой девушки найдены очень похожие очки. Неужели преступник изменил своим принципам? («Грабитель»). Дежурный 87-го участка получает сообщение о том, что ровно в восемь будет убита некая Леди. Имея минимум информации как о самом убийце, так и о намеченной жертве, детективы бросаются на их поиски («Убийца Леди»). Главарь местной шайки подростков Зип подбивает малолеток на убийство одноклассника. Бдительным полицейским удается предотвратить преступление, но слишком дорогой ценой («Смотри, как они умирают»).

Сначала надо вскрыть замок на входной двери, затем найти сейф и открыть его, а что ждет внутри сейфа — кто знает? Может, несколько ненужных бумажек, а может, последний в жизни огромный куш, сорвав который можно завязать? Но игра с судьбой, как и игра в карты, — болезненная страсть, и даже если выпал королевский флеш, не каждому дано вовремя остановиться…

Детектив Стив Карелла ищет Глухого — преступника, который посылает в полицию подсказки рассказывающие о преступлении которое он собирается совершить.

В это же время, парни из следственного отдела 87-го участка ищут неуловимого вора-домушника, оставляющего котят в ограбленных им квартирах…

Эд Макбейн — псевдоним известного американского писателя Ивэна Хантера, который прославился своей замечательной книгой о школе «Джунгли классных досок» (главы из нее публиковались и в СССР) и по которой был снят еще более знаменитый одноименный фильм, явившийся провозвестником триумфального шествия сначала по США, а затем и по всему миру новой молодежной музыки — рок-н-ролла… Под именем Макбейн он пишет остросюжетные (чаще всего полицейские) романы и повести.

Американский писатель Эд Макбейн ставит своих героев в экстремальные условия, и они всегда выбирают именно то решение, которое подсказывает мораль и справедливость.