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TRANSGRESSIONS by Ed McBain (Editor) - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Ed McBain.
Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas,
compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions
is a quintessential classic of never-before-published tales from today's
very best novelists. Featuring:
"Walking Around Money" by
Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an
all-new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets
involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened.
Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and
Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he's left
holding the bag.
"Hostages" by Anne Perry: The bestselling
historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still
savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is
about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet
for some, old habits-and honor-still die hard, even at gunpoint.
"The
Corn Maiden" by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen-year-old girl is
abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of
destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense
could write it.
"Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking
the Line" by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism
student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him
to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and
nothing is as it first seems.
"Merely
Hate" by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and
the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th
Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.
"The
Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst
disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath
of the Twin Towers-when he begins finding the things they left behind.
"The
Ransome Women" by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is
looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John
Ransome offers her a lucrative year-long modeling contract. But how long
will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all
Ransome's past subjects?
"Forever" by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot
Simms is an unusual cop-he's a statistician with the Westbrook County
Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit
suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn't suicide-it's
murder, and he's going to find how who was behind it, and how the did
it.
"Keller's Adjustment" by Lawrence Block: Everyone's favorite
hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's novella, where the
philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering
road trip from one end of the America to the other.
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