Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast
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Ed McBain's Romance - Book 47: A Pudding That Can Change Colour
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast. We've reached 1995. McBain has reached the 47th book in his long running series and he's decided that it's theatre-land's turn for a mystery. There's a lot more au
Ed McBain's Mischief - Book 45, Bonus: Mr Soft Bendy Strange Thing
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. This is the bonus episode to accompany our look at 1993's Mischief. We take a look at the covers of the US and UK releases and also investigate an It
Ed McBain's And All Through The House - Xmas episode: Cast Your Backs
Ho Ho Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Christmas party episode! Whilst we're counting it as an official entry in the 87th Precinct books canon (book number 46), the Christmas miniature story And All Through The House is offered here out of sequence as our Chr.
Ed McBain's Vespers - Book 42, Bonus: Two Up And One Across
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. Following on from our main episode's examination of the satantic tale, Vespers, we explore the covers of the editions as they were originally issued in the US and UK - worthy of note now editions on both.
Ed McBain's Vespers - Book 42, Treeriness
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. We enter a new decade and McBain begins it in dark, despairing mode, with the story of a murdered priest, drugs, hitmen and recollections of confessions. We learn all about the folk to whom the book is dedicated, expl.
Ed McBain's Lullaby - Book 41, Bonus: The Beige Spectrum
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. This is the accompanying thingy for our main episode all about 1989's Lullaby - murder, guns and therapy. Such larks. We begin by looking at the original releases of the book in the US and the UK, which .
Ed McBain's Lullaby - Book 41: The Krypton Factor with Lech Wałęsa
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. 1988 was untroubled by any McBain 87th Precinct books, so we're now in 1989 with the 41st entry into the series with Lullaby. Domestic murders, burglaries, city-wide drugs and gang warfare and therapists. It's all her.
Ed McBain's Tricks - Book 40, Bonus: A Yeti Goes To A House
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Seen as we looked at 1986 in the last episode, we're catching back up to 1987 this time with a look at the TV, Music and Films that were around - including our personal picks from the year. Paul also rev.
Ed McBain's Tricks - Book 40: The Final Squirrel
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. It's the second of the books in the series to come out in 1987 and this time McBain has firmly targeted the Halloween market with the 40th entry in the series. We try and unpack this bumper book of Halloween horrors -.
Ed McBain's Poison - Book 39, Bonus: 200 Year Old Scouser
Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode. So, here's to Golden Days and Purple Nights! In this bonus we explore the origins of this phrase (let us know if you know anything about it) before we get into our usual book cover exploration, book-huf.