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El nombre de Clifford comienza a extenderse como la pólvora entre los agentes de policía del distrito 87 de Nueva York. Tras ese apodo se esconde la identidad de un peculiar atracador que, tras robar el bolso a sus victimas, siempre mujeres, se despide con un educado "Clifford se lo agradece, señora". Pero cuando aparece en un solar el cadaver de una joven de solo diecisiete años, todas las sospechas apuntan hacia Clifford: el excentrico ladron acaba de convertirse en sospechoso de asesinato. El agente Bert Kling, que conocia a la joven asesinada, iniciara entonces una persecucion contrarreloj para atrapar al criminal antes de que acabe con otra viday no se detendra hasta que su ejecutor pague por lo que ha hecho. Ed McBain vuelve a demostrar en El atracador de mujeres (Serie Distrito 87, 2) por que es uno de los maestros del genero criminal, un reconocimiento que sigue muy vigente entre los autores de nuestros dias.

In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind. Take this week's tabloids: the face of a dead girl is splashed across the front page. She was found sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the police station. Detectives Carella and Brown soon discover the girl has a most unusual past. Meanwhile, the late-night news tracks the exploits of The Cookie Boy, a professional thief who leaves his calling card -- a box of chocolate chip cookies -- at the scene of each score. And while the detectives of the 87th Precinct are investigating these cases, one of them is being stalked by the man who killed his father. Welcome to the Big Bad City.

Irritating though he was, Lester Henderson had it all when he strode up to rehearse his keynote address in the darkness of a downtown theatre. Widely tipped to be the next mayor and possessing a nice line in catalogue-casual daywear, Henderson stood four-square facing his glorious future. But five shots later and his lifeblood was seeping away - gunned down by person or persons unknown from stage-right... At that point he became Ollie Weeks' problem. But this savage crime is suddenly overshadowed by a deed even more repugnant. Ollie's life's work is his novel. Honed by countless rejection letters, it is finally ready to be released to the general populace. But then the one and only manuscript disappears, leaving Ollie to head off in pursuit of the thief. A thief who is convinced that Ollie's work contains the secret location of a hoard of hidden diamonds...

When an up-and-coming hip-hop singer is kidnapped on the eve of her debut, the boys of the 87th spring into action. This is the 53rd book in the long-running series.

Fat Ollie Weeks has just finished writing a novel and, while on the way to deliver it to his agent, he gets a call to report in at the 87th to investigate a murder. When he makes it back to his car, he finds that the manuscript has been lifted and suddenly, Weeks has two simultaneous cases--though one of them is significantly more personal than the other....

This addition to the 87th Precinct series brings back Shakespeare-quoting nemesis the Deaf Man. After killing a traitorous accomplice, the Deaf Man begins sending a series of riddling notes to the precinct, hinting at a crime the notorious thief is planning--but what is it? Is the Deaf Man even deaf at all? And can the detectives of the 87th Precinct divert sufficient attention away from their various personal crises to decode the messages and prevent the crime?

LULLABY At New Year, a sinister song of death and destruction echoes through the 87th Precinct, and it isn't Auld Lang Syne...VESPERS The cops of the 87th Precinct must cast the first stone in the bizarre case of a murdered priest - and a parish torn apart by the deadliest of sins. WIDOWS It's summer in the city, and the brutal slaying of a lawyer and his mistress is heating up the 87th Precinct.

El crimen es algo habitual en el distrito 87, pero a veces surgen casos excepcionales con delincuentes fuera de lo común, como es el caso del Sordo. Dispuesto a ridiculizar al equipo dela comisaría, el Sordo ha trazado un plan infalible para perpetrar un robo ¡con la ayuda de la policia! El criminal no solo anuncia sus pretensiones, sino que ademas ira dando pistas a los miembros de la brigada criminal para que intenten averiguar donde sera el excepcional golpe que pretende dar el ultimo dia de abril. Ojo con el Sordo es una ejemplar novela de Ed McBain, perteneciente a su serie narrativa centrada en la Comisaria 87, ubicada en la gran ciudad de Isola (cuyo modelo directo es Manhattan). A lo largo de mas de cincuenta novelas, McBain desplego un universo coral con unos bien perfilados personajes que viven su dia a dia en uno de los barrios mas conflictivos de la metropoli. Ojo con el Sordo es una de sus mejores obras y el paradigma perfecto de una de las series mas famosas del genero policiaco, cuya influencia se ha dejado notar tanto en la literatura, como en el cine y la television.McBain ha superado la prueba del paso del tiempo. Sigue siendo uno de los mejores. San Antonio Express-NewsMcBain ofrece grandes planteamientos, una gran actitud, un increible estilo, argumentos solidos, excelentes dialogos, buenas ambientaciones y realismo. Elmore Leonard