Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast

Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ed McBain's Poison - Book 39: Richie Benaud Blazer
September 03, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. We've arrived into 1987 - a year in which two 87th Precinct books appear - so we spend some of this episode explore McBain/Hunter's activities in 1986 to get us up to date. Then it's time to get stuck into Poison - a .

Ed McBain's Eight Black Horses - Book 38, Bonus: Very Fretless Bass
August 06, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. Following our run-down of the Deaf Man's schemes in our main episode, we turn our attention to the designs of the original UK/US releases and Paul introduces a new fifth design into the scheme! Then prep.

Ed McBain's Eight Black Horses - Book 38: Professor Hair
July 28, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast. We're in 1985 and who better to come along to mark the halfway point of the decade but the 87th Precinct's nemesis, The Deaf Man? Making his fourth appearance in the series, he returns full of schemes and anger. How w.

Ed McBain's Lighting - Book 37, Bonus: Dystopian Fozzy Bear
July 02, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode. Following on from our discussion of the dark and difficult book 'Lightning' we take our usual gander at the original book cover designs and then get stuck straight into as much 1984 ephemera as you can shake a s.

Ed McBain's Lightning: A Lunatic Empire Man
June 24, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. This episode is all about the 37th book in the series - a brutal and dark tale of serial criminals. We discuss if this is McBain at his most difficult - violence against women, issues of race and much more. Along the .

Hark! Bonus Interview with Erin MacDonald
June 17, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast special edition. Joining Paul for this interview is author and professor of English, Erin MacDonald. Erin wrote the essential guide to Evan Hunter's many works, "Ed McBain/Evan Hunter - A Literary Companion", which was.

Ed McBain's Ice - Book 36, Bonus: Perfumey Tang
June 03, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Join us as we dip nose-deep into our varying copies of McBain's 1983 epic, ICE as well as exploring the original book cover designs for the UK and US releases. Then we drift into our usual look at music,.

Ed McBain's Ice - Book 36: Orbit of a UFO
May 26, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. So McBain took a year off in 1982, but in 1983 he returned to the precinct with Ice - a longer novel and one that is usually considered in the top tier of the series. Will we agree? It's a tale of murder, murder, murd.

Ed McBain's Heat - Book 35, Bonus: No Context Midriff
May 06, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. 1981. An alcoholic cop steps out of his car. He's reached the island. The place he could make a difference. He pulls his brown leather jacket close about him. Jim Bergerac has arrived. In this episode w.

Ed McBain's Heat - Book 35: Ten Popes
April 27, 2020

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! And we begin with an apology - no backup recording means Paul's mic is terribly distorted. Sorry, but you're going to have to suffer the Dalek delivery in this episode. We're back in 1981 and what we posit is the star.