Sadie When She Died

-- In Warner Books mass market editions, McBain's titles have over 277,000 copies in print in the last four years alone. -- Two of the author's most recent 87th Precinct novels, The Last Dance (Simon & Schuster hardcover, 1/00) and The Big Bad City (Simon & Schuster hardcover, 1/99), were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. -- The six titles in the Warner Books Ed McBain re-release program will capitalize on the publication of his latest 87th Precinct novels: The Last Dance (Simon & Schuster hardcover, 1/00), Cop Hater (Pocket Books paperback, 12/99), and The Big Bad City (Pocket Books paperback, 11/99). Warner began its McBain re-release program in 12/99 with Fuzz, Jigsaw, and Shotgun. -- Ed McBain is one of the most illustrious names in crime fiction: He holds the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, his novel Ice (Warner, 1996) was named one of the top ten crime novels of all time by Newsweek, and several of his 87th Precinct novels have been national bestsellers. -- Hollywood loves Ed McBain, as demonstrated by the highly-rated NBC television series based on the 87th Precinct novels, and the major motion picture adaptation of Fuzz, starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Yul Brynner. -- McBain, under the name of Evan Hunter, also wrote the seminal troubled youth novel The Blackboard Jungle, as well as the screenplay to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.It looked like a clear cut homicide case: clean fingerprints, a reliable witness, and a confessed killer. But nothing is ever that easy in the 87th Precinct. The beautiful victim had a knife plunged into her chest, and her husband wasn't even hiding his joy. Carella was sure someone was hired to makeit look like an interrupted robbery, but when the wife's little black book turns up with a mile-long record of her nocturnal adventures in the city's sexual underground, it was time to call in the boys of the 87th Precinct.