Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
At midnight, one day dies as another comes to life. For the men of the 87th Precinct, they all bleed together in a never-ending cycle of crime and punishment. But every now and then, a day stands out as more unusual than the others. This is one of those days.

Carella and Hawes investigate a murder; Kling delves into a store-front church bombing; Meyer checks out a house haunted by larcenous ghosts; Willis and Genero look into a naked hippie's four-story death fall; Delgado takes an assault case in the Puerto Rican barrio; and Kapek hunts a man and woman mugging team. But when a gunman kills a grocer and shoots Parker twice, the rules of the game quickly change. With Parker's life hanging in the balance, the detectives of the 87th will stop at nothing to get their man.

For the first time, bestselling author Ed McBain puts all of his characters into one supercharged installment of the 87th Precinct series. Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! is a taut, relentless thriller that illustrates his unmatched ability to weave multiple story threads into one ferociously intense novel.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! An 87th Precinct Novel. Thomas & Mercer, ISBN: 9781612181646 (March, 2012), 194 p., $13.95.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
87TH PRECINCT
There are 186 patrolmen and a handful of detectives in the 87th Precinct, but it's never quite enough. Because between petty crimes and major felonies, between crimes of hate and crimes of passion, the city never sleeps-and for these cops, a day never ends...

HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HERE!
The night shift has a murdered go-go dancer, a firebombed black church, a house full of ghosts, and a mother trying to get her twenty-two-year-old to come home. The day shift: a naked hippie lying smashed on the concrete, two murderous armed robbers in Halloween masks, and a man beaten senseless by four guys using sawed off broom handles. Altogether, it's a day in the life. But for a certain cop in the 87th Precinct, it could just be his last...

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! An 87th Precinct Mystery. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446609684 (January, 2001), 208 p., $6.99.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
It's Saturday night in the 87th Precinct, and the fun is about to start...
Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here!
Detective Steve Carella answers the first call: he is the one who finds the note from the Avenging Angel in the nude dancer's room. The girl herself is in the alley, an ugly knife protruding from her well-developed chest.

Within twenty-four hours an insane bigot has bombed a ghetto church, a weekend hippie has been murdered and detective Andy Parker lies near death, the victim of two slugs from a killer's gun.

Suddenly, it all seems like more than the detectives of the 87th can handle...

"The best modern American crime writer." -- SUNDAY EXPRESS
'McBain is a master. He is a superior stylist, a spinner of artfully designed and sometimes macabre plots.' -- NEWSWEEK

Don't miss Ed McBain's other exciting novels! His brilliant 87th Precinct novels include MISCHIEF, BLOOD RELATIVES, LONG TIME NO SEE and SHOTGUN all available from Coronet Books.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! A novel of the 87th Precinct. Coronet, ISBN: 034059330X (May, 1995), 196 p., £5.99.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (UK 1976)

From the Publisher:
'Unless your appetite for evil is insatiable you may find the scene rather crowded at times...' -- THE OBSERVER
Nudes weren't news in the 87th Precinct any day-not even dead ones.
Neither were muggings, break-ins, hippies, hookers, bombs or runaways.
For the tough-talking, fast-acting cops, the concrete jungle never slept.
Meyer Meyer was lucky he settled for ghosts who stole jewellery...
Andy Parker wasn't he ended up bleeding in a downtown grocery store...
... and Detective Brown found himself looking for Snow-White in a sewer.

ED McBAIN's 87th Precinct mysteries are 'the best of today's procedural school of police stories - lively, inventive, convincing, suspenseful, and wholly satisfactory'. -- NEW YORK TIMES

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! A 87th Precinct Mystery. London: Pan Books, 1976, ISBN: 0330235494, 172 p., 50p.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (USA 1972)

From the Publisher:
Detective Steve Carella had found the misspelled note in the nude dancer's room. The girl herself had been found in an alley -- an ugly knife protruding from her well-developed chest.

And that was just the beginning of the madness. Within 24 hours an insane bigot had bombed a ghetto church, a weekend hippie had been murdered, and detective andy parker lay near death-the victim of two slugs from a killer's gun.

Suddenly it all seemed like more than the detectives of the 87th could handle. How to follow proper police procedure -- and stay alive as well!

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! A brand new 87th Precinct Mystery! New American Library / Signet Books #T5063 (June, 1972), 160 p., ¢75.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (USA 1971)

From the Publisher:
The minute hand on the stationhouse clock crept past midnight, and another day began -- a not untypical October Sunday, bringing the usual assortment of big-city crimes to the detectives of the 87th Precinct.

To start the morning hours of the night, there was a gory homicide: a young actress in a controversial play had been stabbed, and Carella and Hawes set out to investigate. Mean-while, Bert Kling was taking a call about the bombing of a store-front church in the black ghetto, and Meyer Meyer found himself talking to an attractive, affluent and well-educated woman who had an unlikely com-plaint: larcenous ghosts.

The day shift was no less eventful. Willis and Genero were investigating the death of a bearded youth who fell or was pushed from a fourth-floor window-stark naked. Alex Delgado took on a nasty beating in the Puerto Rican barrio, while Carl Kapek was looking for a man and woman who spe-cialized in muggings. Andy Parker's routine assignment took an unexpected twist: a pair of gunman killed a grocer and shot Parker twice. Lieutenant Byrnes was upset enough to call Di Maeo, Levine, and Meriwether in from vacation, get Steve Carella out of bed, and pull Art Brown off the case of the missing husband.

And, just to fill in the idle moments, there was the usual parade of malicious punks, youthful runaways, hookers, and small-time burglars.

For the first time, Ed McBain has brought together all the detectives of the 87th Precinct in a single novel-a book filled with his usual precise de-scriptions of police procedure and an ingenious assortment of interlocking plots -- some violent, some touching, some ironic, but all marked by the masterful McBain touch.

Ed McBain: Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! An 87th Precinct Mystery. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1971, 201 p., $5.95 (?).