Ed McBain: Shotgun (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
They were dead, the husband and wife. Both were shot in the face at close range with a shotgun. The husband, in fact, still had his finger on the trigger, the barrel pointing toward what used to be a significant portion of his head. It was clearly a suicide -- or did it just look that way? For Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling, what seems to be the truth on the surface often reveals something far different underneath.

A killer is murdering married women and their husbands. But setting up shop in the 87th Precinct was the wrong move. Carella and Kling don't buy the suicide theory, and soon enough they are on the killer's trail. The only trouble is the murderous crime wave ripping through the city has gathered momentum.

The Chicago Sun-Times proclaims, "Ed McBain... He hooks you... He holds you." Shotgun, a gritty thriller in the 87th Precinct series, is a blast of sheer intensity as a series of grisly murders leads you on a high-octane ride toward a shocking, unforgettable conclusion.

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An 87th Precinct Novel. Thomas & Mercer / Amazon Publ., ISBN: 9781612181813 (March, 2012), 182 p., $13.95.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
A psycho has butchered a nice young couple and he's loose somewhere in the 87th Precinct. He has a name, an address and an identity. Walter Damascus is a third-rate lothario who likes his women well off, well built and dead, along with their husbands. Sooner or later he will surface and the men of the 87th will get the biggest shock of their careers.

Ed McBain: Shotgun. A Novel of the 87th Precinct. Coronet / Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340593393 (May, 1995), 165 p., £5.99.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
A PAIR OF FACELESS BODIES
A shotgun fired at long range can really do a job on you. But when it's fired point-blank in your face, what's left is enough to sicken anyone -- even a cop.

A psycho has butchered a nice young couple -- and he was loose somewhere in the 87th Precinct. He had a name, an address, an identity: Walter Damascus, a third-rate lothario who liked his women well off, well built, and -- apparently -- dead, along with their husbands. Sooner or later he would surface, and the men of the 87th would be waiting -- for the biggest shock of their careers!

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An 87th Precinct Novel. Signet, ISBN: 0451156749 (September, 1993), 173 p., $3.99.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (USA ca. 1989)

From the Publisher:
DETECTIVE KLING LOOKED AT THE PAIR OF FACELESS BODIES AND THREW UP...
A shotgun fired at long range can really do a job on you. But when it's fired point-blank in your face, what's left is enough to sicken anyone -- even a cop.

A psycho has butchered a nice young couple -- and he was loose somewhere in the 87th Precinct. He had a name, an address, an identity: Walter Damascus, a third-rate lothario who liked his women well off, well built, and -- apparently -- dead, along with their husbands. Sooner or later he would surface, and the men of the 87th would be waiting -- for the biggest shock of their careers!

"McBain's best... a major contribution to the American detective novel!" - Nashville Banner
"Ed McBain - novelist Evan Hunter's pen name when he writes these mysteries - is a master... he hooks you... he holds you..." - Chicago Sun-Times Book Week

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An 87th Precinct Novel. New York: Signet, ca. 1989, ISBN: 0451156749, Signet AE5674, 173 p., $3.50.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (UK 1978)

From the Publisher:
Halloween put the hex on the men from the 87th Precinct. It was a bad time for solving a neat stabbing and a messy double murder.

Steve Carella remembered how Detective King had rushed outside the apartment to throw up.

One thing about a twelve-gauge shotgun at close range. It makes it tough for a cop to pick 'up the pieces.

In more ways than one.

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An 87th Precinct Mystery. London: Pan Books, 1978, ISBN: 0330027026, 165 p., 60p.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (UK 1974)

From the Publisher:
Halloween put the hex on the men from the 87th Precinct. It was a bad time for solving a neat stabbing and a messy double murder.

Steve Carella remembered how Detective King had rushed outside the apartment to throw up.

One thing about a twelve-gauge shotgun at close range. It makes it tough for a cop to pick 'up the pieces.

In more ways than one.

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An 87th Precinct Mystery. London: Pan Books, 1974, ISBN: 0330027026, 165 p., 35p.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (USA 1970)

From the Publisher:
A PAIR OF FACELESS BODIES
A shotgun fired at long range can really do a job on you. But when it's fired point-blank in your face, what's left is enough to sicken anyone -- even a cop.

A psycho has butchered a nice young couple -- and he was loose somewhere in the 87th Precinct. He had a name, an address, an identity: Walter Damascus, a third-rate lothario who liked his women well off, well built, and -- apparently -- dead, along with their husbands. Sooner or later he would surface, and the men of the 87th would be waiting -- for the biggest shock of their careers!

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An explosive sizzlung 87th Precinct Mystery. Signet E8561, ISBN: 0451156749 (August, 1970), 173 p., $1.75.

Ed McBain: Shotgun (USA 1969)

From the Publisher:
It was mean, rough and gruesome -- an ugly business. The milkman who found their bodies would not soon forget. Andrew Leyden and his wife were killed by a 12 gauge shotgun.

The shotgun had to belong to somebody; Detectives Carella and Kling managed to track down the owner's name -- finding him in a city of 10 million people was a different matter.

Meanwhile, in another section of the 87th Precinct a 60-year-old hippie discovered a woman with a breadknife in her chest and Detective Meyer Meyer was upset because it was such a neat job. Every experienced cop knows that when somebody starts stabbing another person there's a sort of rhythm established and a compulsive need to plunge the blade again and vain. But there was old Margie in basic black and pearls and one simple twist of the knife -- a twist no less confounding than the surprise conclusions to both cases.

Those men from the e 87th Precinct are back again. There's murder, mayhem and mile-a-minute laughter as Ed McBain's latest tale of crime and detection proves there's no place quite so wild as the 87th Precinct.

Ed McBain: Shotgun. An 87th Precinct Mystery. New York: Doubleday, 1969, 173 p., $4.95.