Gold Box Deal Of The Day
Amazon is offering today only any of the works of master crime novelist Ed McBain’s “87th Precinct” series for $.99 for the Kindle.
Ed McBain is recommended by Steven King and Nelson DeMille has this to say about McBain:
Way back in the mid-1970s, when I was a new writer and police series were very big, my editor asked me to do a series called Joe Ryker, NYPD. I had no idea how to write a police detective novel, but the editor handed me a stack of books and said, “These are the 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain. Read them and you’ll know everything you need to know about police novels.” After I read the first book–which I think was Let’s Hear It for the Deaf Man–I was hooked, and I read every Ed McBain I could get my hands on. Then I sat down and wrote my own detective novel, The Sniper, featuring Joe Ryker. My series never reached the heights of the 87th Precinct series, but by reading those classic masterpieces, I learned all I needed to know about urban crime and how detectives think and act. And I had a hell of a time learning from the master.
I’ve never read any McBain, so I ordered “The Con Man (87th Precinct),” “The Mugger (87th Precinct),” and “Hail to the Chief (87th Precinct).”
