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The Empty Hours

Published
Jan 1962
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Police Procedural Police Procedural
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256

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Three nerve-racking stories from bestselling author Ed McBain put detectives from the 87th Precinct on the trail of different killers who take the lives of a rich woman, a rabbi, and a ski instructor.

“McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet…even those we thought we already knew.” —New York Times Book Review

“Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain’s grand, ongoing accomplishment.” —Entertainment Weekly

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Jan 1977 Signet ISBN 0451072871
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