Result: Found 22336 thread(s) related to "english"
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Birds of Melanesia - Helm Field Guides - Guy Dutson - English
03-31-2025 06:55 - Pinbks - Educational
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Help Wanted - Adelle Waldman - English
At a big-box store in a small town in upstate New York, the members of Team Movement clock in every morning at 3:55. Under the eye of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s t ...
03-19-2025 07:22 - Pinbks - Other Fiction Books
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Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro - English
There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scot ...
03-10-2025 14:36 - Pinbks - Other Fiction Books
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Dead Calm - Mattie Winston Mystery 9 - Annelise Ryan - English
As deputy medical examiner and homicide detective respectively, the couple are dispatched to a grisly crime scene at the Grizzly Motel, a seedy joint for illicit liaisons on the outskirts of Sorenson, ...
11-01-2024 16:12 - Pinbks - Mystery
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The Killing Code - Ellie Marney - English
Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a former girls’ college now servi ...
11-01-2024 16:19 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Cop Hater - 87th Precinct 1 - Ed McBain - English
When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective buys ...
11-02-2024 15:20 - Pinbks - Mystery
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The Mugger - 87th Precinct 2 - Ed McBain - English
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 ...
11-02-2024 15:21 - Pinbks - Mystery
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The Pusher - 87th Precinct 3 - Ed McBain - English
Most suicides don't realise the headaches they cause...
11-02-2024 15:48 - Pinbks - Mystery
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The Con Man - 87th Precinct 4 - Ed McBain - English
A con man is plying his trade on the streets of Isola: conning a domestic for pocket change, businessmen for thousands, and even ladies in exchange for a little bit of love. You can see the world, mee ...
11-02-2024 15:49 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Killer's Choice - 87th Precinct 5 - Ed McBain - English
Annie Boone is dead. She was shot four times in the chest, pieces of the liquor store’s windows spread over her body like raindrops from a lethal storm. For 87th Precinct Detectives Carella, Kling, a ...
11-02-2024 15:51 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Killer's Payoff - 87th Precinct 6 - Ed McBain - English
He appeared to be a decent, upright, honest citizen....And yet appearances can be more than deceiving in the world of blackmail and extortion. The shocking gangland-style murder of known blackmailer S ...
11-02-2024 15:53 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Lady Killer - 87th Precinct 8 - Ed McBain - English
"I will kill the lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it?" — That's what the letter read. — Was she that new hooker in town, the one who let them rape her like a lady? Or Lady Jay Astor, the sen ...
11-02-2024 15:55 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Killer's Wedge - 87th Precinct 7 - Ed McBain - English
Her game was death - and her name was Virginia Dodge. She was out to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she didn't care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct to do it. So V ...
11-02-2024 15:56 - Pinbks - Mystery
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'Til Death - 87th Precinct 9 - Ed McBain - English
The wedding day of Detective Steve Carella’s sister Angela should be the most romantic, special day of her life. But it might turn out to be the worst if her brother can’t figure out which man on th ...
11-02-2024 15:58 - Pinbks - Mystery
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King's Ransom - 87th Precinct 10 - Ed McBain - English
Half a million dollars – or a boy’s life . . . But what if that boy isn’t your own son? And what if paying the ransom will ruin the biggest deal you ever made? What do you do then? Throw away your ...
11-02-2024 15:59 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Give the Boys a Great Big Hand - 87th Precinct 11 - Ed McBain - English
The mystery man wore black, and he was a real cut-up king. Why else was he leaving blood-red severed hands all over the city? Was he an everyday maniac with a meat cleaver, or did he have a special gr ...
11-02-2024 16:02 - Pinbks - Mystery
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The Heckler - 87th Precinct 12 - Ed McBain - English
"There are crazy people all over, you know that, don't you?" Spring was intoxicating the city air, but the harassing anonymous telephone calls planting seeds of fear around town were no April Fool's j ...
11-02-2024 16:04 - Pinbks - Mystery
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See Them Die - 87th Precinct 13 - Ed McBain - English
Kill me if you can - that was Pepe Miranda's challenge. Murderer, two-bit hero of the street gangs, he was holed up somewhere in the 87th Precinct, making the cops look like fools and cheered on by ev ...
11-02-2024 16:05 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Lady, Lady, I Did It! - 87th Precinct 14 - Ed McBain - English
The first thing Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling saw was four bodies soaked in blood. Then Kling realized that one of those crumpled on the bookshop floor was Claire Townsend, his fiancie! And ...
11-02-2024 16:06 - Pinbks - Mystery
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The Empty Hours - 87th Precinct 15 - Ed McBain - English
She was young, wealthy - and dead. Strangled to death in a slum apartment. All they had to go on was her name and some cancelled cheques. As Steve Carella said, 'Those cheques are the diary of her lif ...
11-02-2024 16:07 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Like Love - 87th Precinct 16 - Ed McBain - English
A young girl jumps to her death. A salesman gets blown apart. Two semi-naked bodies are found dead on a bed with all the hallmarks of a love pact... Spring really was here for the 87th Precinct. Stev ...
11-02-2024 16:13 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Ten Plus One - 87th Precinct 17 - Ed McBain - English
When Anthony Forrest walked out of the office building, the only thoughts on his mind were of an impending birthday and a meeting with his wife for dinner. And a deadly bullet saw to it that they were ...
11-02-2024 16:16 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Ax - 87th Precinct 18 - Ed McBain - English
Eighty-six-year-old George Lasser was the superintendent of a building in the 87th Precinct until just recently. Unfortunately his tenure ended in the building’s basement with a sharp, heavy blade of ...
11-02-2024 16:17 - Pinbks - Mystery
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He Who Hesitates - 87th Precinct 19 - Ed McBain - English
Outside the 87th Precinct a stranger stands in the falling snow. A big man with big hands, Roger He knows he should go in and tell a policeman about what happened the night before; about Molly, the ho ...
11-02-2024 16:19 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Doll - 87th Precinct 20 - Ed McBain - English
A blonde woman, a living doll, is found slashed to death. Steve Carella wants Bert Kling on the case, a belligerent cop. When he goes missing, presumed dead, the officers of the 87th Precinct go all o ...
11-02-2024 16:20 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Eighty Million Eyes - 87th Precinct 21 - Ed McBain - English
Stan Gifford was America's most beloved comedian. It showed in the ratings--40 million people watched the ever-smiling comedian crack his jokes. And those same 80 million eyes saw him die on camera. I ...
11-02-2024 16:32 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Fuzz - 87th Precinct 22 - Ed McBain - English
The detectives of the 87th Precinct have gotten a call threatening the life of the city’s parks commissioner unless a five-thousand-dollar ransom is paid. It seems like an obvious crank call. The dea ...
11-03-2024 05:34 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Shotgun - 87th Precinct 23 - Ed McBain - English
With Walter Damascus, a psychopath who likes his women well-off, well-built, and dead, loose on the city, Detective Carella and the investigating team of the 87th Precinct must work overtime to find h ...
11-03-2024 05:36 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Jigsaw - 87th Precinct 24 - Ed McBain - English
Detectives Brown and Carella answer a call to a double homicide. One guy broke in and another defended himself and now they both are dead. The case seems open and shut. Except for one piece of evidenc ...
11-03-2024 05:38 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! - 87th Precinct 25 - Ed McBain - English
There are 186 patrolmen and a handful of detectives in the 87th Precinct, but it's never quite enough. Because between petty crimes and major felonies, between crimes of hate and crimes of passion, th ...
11-03-2024 05:40 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Sadie When She Died - 87th Precinct 26 - Ed McBain - English
Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: his wife’s body with a knife buried in it. Though he shamelessly cops to being happy she’s dead, his alibi is airtight ...
11-03-2024 05:43 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man - 87th Precinct 27 - Ed McBain - English
"WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE, I'M GOING TO STEAL $500,000 ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL." So wrote the Deaf Man, the 87th Precinct's own private nemesis. Carella, Kling, Hawes, and Brown know the Deaf Man is tryi ...
11-03-2024 05:45 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Hail to the Chief - 87th Precinct 28 - Ed McBain - English
It’s January. The weather is cold—and it’s about to feel even colder. Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th Precinct stand at the edge of their jurisdiction staring down into a ditch filled with ...
11-03-2024 05:46 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Bread - 87th Precinct 29 - Ed McBain - English
The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things can always get hotter. With nearly half the squadroom on vacation, Detectives Carella and Hawes look int ...
11-03-2024 05:47 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Blood Relatives - 87th Precinct 30 - Ed McBain - English
Steve Carella does not fit the picture of a big city detective. Well mannered and the consummate professional, he lacks the rough-hewn edges of the men who devote their lives to fighting crime on the ...
11-03-2024 05:49 - Pinbks - Mystery
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So Long As You Both Shall Live - 87th Precinct 31 - Ed McBain - English
Detective Bert Kling has had some rough luck with women. First his fiancée Cindy Townsend was gunned down in an infamous bookstore shooting. Then there was Cindy Forrest, who informed him one day tha ...
11-03-2024 05:50 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Long Time No See - 87th Precinct 32 - Ed McBain - English
They never saw their executioner. Because each victim had this in common: they were blind. Steve Carella, a weary detective very much in love with his deaf wife, is stymied in a hunt that began when a ...
11-03-2024 06:45 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Calypso - 87th Precinct 33 - Ed McBain - English
What a lousy way to die. Calypso King George Chadderton, murdered on a wet September street in the 87th precinct. Detectives carella & Meyer shake their heads in the grey drizzle. Cops can do withouth ...
11-03-2024 06:46 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Ghosts - 87th Precinct 34 - Ed McBain - English
A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home—at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavem ...
11-03-2024 09:09 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Heat - 87th Precinct 35 - Ed McBain - English
In the middle of a stifling heat wave, why would an artist intent on committing suicide turn his air conditioning off before taking his life? That’s the question troubling Detectives Steve Carella an ...
11-03-2024 09:11 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Ice - 87th Precinct 36 - Ed McBain - English
Snow whips through the city’s streets like lethal daggers when a young actress leaves the theater after her latest performance. She walks home instead of taking the subway, and soon the snow on the g ...
11-03-2024 09:13 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Lightning - 87th Precinct 37 - Ed McBain - English
The city can be a strange place, full of odd sights. Sometimes chilling sights. But nothing could prepare the detectives of the 87th Precinct for the sight of a murdered young woman, a member of a loc ...
11-03-2024 16:35 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Poison - 87th Precinct 39 - Ed McBain - English
When one of your ex-boyfriends dies of poisoning, it is an unfortunate circumstance, possibly a suicide. When three go the same way, it is a disturbing pattern. The wealthy and beautiful Marilyn Holli ...
11-03-2024 16:37 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Tricks - 87th Precinct 40 - Ed McBain - English
One night. One shift. No rest. Featuring the 87th Precinct’s entire cast of characters, this Halloween takes them into the darkest corners of depravity the city has to offer. And sometimes, surviving ...
11-03-2024 17:27 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Lullaby - 87th Precinct 41 - Ed McBain - English
New Year’s Day brings the dawn of a new year and the hope of better days to come. But for a couple who returns home from a New Year’s Eve party in the early morning hours to find their babysitter an ...
11-03-2024 17:29 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Widows - 87th Precinct 43 - Ed McBain - English
Another summer. Another heat wave. And another murder so brutal it’s hard to fathom the cruelty that stalks the city’s streets. When Susan Brauer was stabbed thirty-two times with a paring knife, De ...
11-03-2024 17:32 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Kiss - 87th Precinct 44 - Ed McBain - English
Emma Bowles, wife of successful businessman Martin Bowles, discovers that her life is in danger. To ease her mind, Martin hires Denker, an out-of-town bodyguard, to protect her from harm. Which is goo ...
11-03-2024 17:51 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Romance - 87th Precinct 47 - Ed McBain - English
It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Be ...
11-03-2024 17:54 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Nocturne - 87th Precinct 48 - Ed McBain - English
In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful -- espe ...
11-03-2024 17:56 - Pinbks - Mystery
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Money, Money, Money - 87th Precinct 51 - Ed McBain - English
It is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and an equally shady pair of Secret Service agents are in ...
11-03-2024 17:57 - Pinbks - Mystery