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

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 life. We'll find the answer there.' But how was he to know that they would reveal something much stranger than murder? On Passover the rabbi bled to death. Someone had brutally stabbed him and painted a J on the synagogue wall. Everyone knew who the killer was - it had to be Finch, the Jew-hater. Or did it...? The snow was pure white except where Cotton Hawes stared down at the bright red pool of blood spreading away from the dead girl's body. Hawes was supposed to be on a skiing holiday, but he couldn't just stand by and watch the local cops make a mess of the case. He had to catch the ski-slope slayer before he killed again.

Here are three chillers from the files of the 87th Precinct--by the author of the New York Times bestseller Kiss. This trilogy of murder includes The Empty Hours, J, and Storm.

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

Three mysteries focus on a young woman found strangled in a run-down apartment, a rabbi murdered in a synagogue where a large "J" has been painted on the wall, and a murder committed at a ski resort.

Three murders. Few clues. No connections. The boys at the 87th Precinct have their hands full in these three short stories. Steve Carella gets the case of the wealthy woman strangled in a slum apartment. Does her checkbook point to the killer? Meyer Meyer looks for the scum who stabbed a rabbi and painted a big, ugly "J" on the synagogue wall. Cotton Hawes finds a girl's dead body while skiing, and can't stand watching the local cops bumble.

Three murders. Few clues. No connections. The boys at the 87th Precinct have their hands full

In The Empty Hours, Claudia Davis was young and rich. And dead. Detective Steve Carella had nothing to go on except a book of cancelled cheques. In 'J', when a Rabbi is stabbed in a dark alley, a calling card is left splattered in blood. And in Storm, a dead girl is found in the snow, skewered with a ski pole.

This collection of three 87th Precinct stories includes The empty hours, in which a wealthy young woman is found strangled to death in a slum apartment: J, where that letter is painted on the synagogue wall by the killer who brutally stabbed the rabbi on Passover: and Storm, in which a quiet ski weekend with a beautiful girl turns into a murder hunt.

This title contains three chillers from the files of the 87th Precinct - 'The Empty Hours', 'J' and 'Storm'.

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