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Killer's Payoff (1958) is the sixth 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain. Plot. Sy Kramer, a blackmailer, is shot dead in a 1937-style drive-by execution. But it is 1958 and Cotton Hawes and Steve Carella have to find out who killed him.
- Evan Hunter
- 1958
Nov 19, 2013 · Killer's Payoff (87th Precinct Book 6) Kindle Edition. It’s like an old-time gangster movie: a speeding car, a blazing gun…and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders.
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- Evan Hunter
- Ed McBain
- 1958
Sep 20, 2021 · The shocking gangland-style murder of known blackmailer Sy Kramer begs the question: which of Kramer’s marks had given him his very last payoff? A politician’s beautiful wife with a deadly secret?
- More Than A Few And-So-To-Beds
- “Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan”
- “Mr. Kramer!”
The phrase “and so to bed” is famous for being frequently used in the 17th-century diary of Samuel Pepys, one of the most important primary sources for historians of the English Restoration period. There are more than a few and-so-to-beds in Killer’s Payoff. I don’t know how many readers of McBain’s police procedurals featuring the 87th Precinct sq...
This happens when Cotton has to interview a photographer named Dean Kramer, no relation to the violently deceased Sy, about some photos. Dean Kramer, it turns out, is a big fan of the first sentences of novels, so much a fan that he memorizes a whole lot of them and pops them into conversations, such as he does with Cotton:
It’s fromUlysses by James Joyce, and it’s quickly followed by the first lines of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and From Here to Eternity by James Jones and Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier. And, before Cotton can finish the interview and get out the door, McBain, through Dean Kramer, throws an in-joke down on the page: Where’s that opening line f...
Nov 19, 2013 · 4.2 2,137 ratings. Book 6 of 52: 87th Precinct Mysteries. See all formats and editions. It’s like an old-time gangster movie: a speeding car, a blazing gun…and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders.
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- Ed McBain
Buy Killer's Payoff Reissue by McBain, Ed (ISBN: 9780451150813) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
- Ed McBain
Sep 1, 2015 · It falls to detectives Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes of the 87th Precinct to pound the pavement of the city and beat the bushes of the backwoods for the suspect with the best motive, the most blistering weapon, and the biggest set of brass ones.
- Ed McBain
