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Amazon had a deal around Christmas time, twenty 87th Precinct novels for some stupid cheap number like 99 cents, so I bought all twenty of them to parcel out over a period of time. Killer’s Choice is from the late Fifties, and introduces Cotton Hawes, whom no one can stand going in. Carella is married, but he and Teddy have no kids. As usual, there is more than one crime to be solved, and, also as usual, there’s no weird twist. Just solid investigations of realistic events by people any of us might know, who happen to be cops. McBain was still using graphics of forms and paperwork as part of the story at this time. I’ve never read an 87th Precinct novel I couldn’t recommend, some more enthusiastically than others. This rates about a 6.5 on the ten-point McBain scale, which means it’s better than two-thirds of all the other books you’re likely to read this year. What’s amazing about McBain is how his voice and style remained consistent, yet evolved over time. Note: the opening, where McBain describes the struggles with his publisher over the directions the characters were to take, is hilarious.


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Killer Choice 87th Precinct Ed McBain 9780749004521 Books Reviews

I have all the original paperbacks of the 87th precinct but hate to touch them because they are so old and do not want to damage them. I am glad they are now on E Book. The 87th Precinct and the characters are New York, just no other way to describe it. This series is the best of the goodness of cops and the worst they can be. No one has been better at it than Ed McBain.
Started reading these books from the beginning and I have to say that I'm not at all disappointed. Another fine showing.
Despite being one of the older examples of the classic 87th Precinct series, Killers Choice hardly feels dated at all. Don't let the prices of things, or technology trip you up and it's actually a surprisingly fresh piece of work with good character building, dialogue, and even some interesting plot points.
Although this book is one of the earliest entries in the long running 87th Precinct series, all of the McBain trade marks are here. He aims for realism and thus tries to use contemporary police procedures which dates the book. The author also copies reality by having even truthful witness give inconsistent stories, because of mistakes and differing perspectives. And of course there is the gritty humor of frustrated and overworked detectives. Fresh for its time, this novel still provides interesting reading.
Did not expect to enjoy this series simply due to the setting (specifically the time/era). However, after reading one novel in the series, I went back to the first book of the series and have been reading each subsequent novel in order. “Killer’s Choice” is yet another excellent police procedural by the master McBain. Think “old school”....”walking a beat”...pre- “NYPD Blue” and “CSI”..... and you have the original police procedural genre. And McBain is definitely the best at this craft. “Killer’s Choice” continues some characters’ developments and introduces some new ones. Both continue to hold my interest. Looking forward to reading the next story in this series.
By the time of Killer's Choice, Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series has achieved a comfortable level of quality. While each individual novel is a decent story, the overall series became a pioneering work in not just the police procedural, but also the ensemble series (later done at its best by the TV show Hill Street Blues).

With the main "character" in this series being a police department, not a standard hero, it is not surprising that in this novel, one previously recurring character will die and another will join the cast. I won't spoil things by saying who dies (though his murder will be a major subplot), but the new guy is Cotton Hawes, a slightly naive detective brought from a ritzy, generally low-crime precinct into the more challenging 87th Precinct.

Hawes and detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling will be involved in two investigations the "A" plot involving a woman killed in a liquor store and the "B" plot regarding the dead cop mentioned above (many of these novels have two storylines).

As is typical of crime fiction from the 1950s - especially the pulpier novels - this novel is rather short. It is, however, another fun read, with a good mix of humor (usually dark) and grim violence.
This is the book in which Ed McBain adds Cotton Hawes to the cast of detectives who populate the 87th Precinct. As Hawes comes on board, a young woman named Annie Boone is shot and killed while working as a clerk in a liquor store. The store is then totally trashed and the owner seems more concerned about the damage to his stock than the death of his employee.

Annie, a divorced mother of a young daughter, seems to be something of a chameleon. Virtually everyone that the detectives interview has a radically different impression of the woman, and without knowing exactly who she was, it's going to be awfully difficult to catch her killer. Then, as the investigation progresses, Roger Havilland, one of the detectives, is also murdered. This increases the pressure to find the killer or killers and Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, Bert Kling and Hawes, the new addition to the team must follow a very slim trail of evidence in their effort to find a solution to the crimes.

This is a quick, fun read, one of the better of the earlier books in the series. It's fun to watch the interaction with Hawes, the new guy, especially as he makes a nearly catastrophic mistake early on in the investigation. Any fan of the 87th Precinct will want to find this one.
had a deal around Christmas time, twenty 87th Precinct novels for some stupid cheap number like 99 cents, so I bought all twenty of them to parcel out over a period of time. Killer’s Choice is from the late Fifties, and introduces Cotton Hawes, whom no one can stand going in. Carella is married, but he and Teddy have no kids. As usual, there is more than one crime to be solved, and, also as usual, there’s no weird twist. Just solid investigations of realistic events by people any of us might know, who happen to be cops. McBain was still using graphics of forms and paperwork as part of the story at this time. I’ve never read an 87th Precinct novel I couldn’t recommend, some more enthusiastically than others. This rates about a 6.5 on the ten-point McBain scale, which means it’s better than two-thirds of all the other books you’re likely to read this year. What’s amazing about McBain is how his voice and style remained consistent, yet evolved over time. Note the opening, where McBain describes the struggles with his publisher over the directions the characters were to take, is hilarious.