Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
When Anthony Forrest walked out of the office building, the only thoughts on his mind were of an impending birthday and a meeting with his wife for dinner. And a deadly bullet saw to it that they were the last thoughts on his mind.

The problem for Detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer of the 87th Precinct is that Forrest isn't alone. An anonymous sniper is unofficially holding the city hostage, frustrating the police as one by one the denizens of Isola drop like flies. With fear gripping the citizenry and the pressure on the 87th mounting, finding a killer whose victims are random is the greatest challenge the detectives have ever faced -- and the deadliest game the city has ever known.

A gritty, relentless pressure cooker of a thriller, Ten Plus One is one of bestselling author Ed McBain's finest, the ultimate addition to the 87th Precinct series where time threatens to stand still and murder rules the day.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. A Novel of the 87th Precinct. Thomas & Mercer / Amazon Publ., ISBN: 9781612181837 (March, 2012), 230 p., $13.95.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
Ten Plus One
A Sniper. The cops' worst nightmare.

A high-powered rifle. Silenced. The killing shot fired fyom... Where? An upper window? A roof? A fire escape? Impossible to guard against. Sudden death in the morning, the afternoon, the Happy Hour... Detective Steve Carella and the boys of the 87th Precinct could only watch and wait and count the toll, hoping with more and more desperation that this wasn't a random slaughter. That there was a pattern, some way they could begin to predict, to act, to do something more than log another Dead On Arrival...

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. A Novel of the 87th Precinct. Coronet / Hodder & Stougton, ISBN: 0340593369 (September, 1993), 214 p., £5.99.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
SNIPER!
Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, and the 87th Precinct regulars were faced with the kind of killer who was a cop's worst nightmare. From a rooftop or an open window, his missiles of death sped silently to their targets, and one after another the cold, cold corpses piled up.

The boys of the 87th could only watch and wait and worry, trying to spot a pattern where no pattern seemed to exist, hoping to catch a cool, clever killer and put an end to his vendetta of blood. But in a city of millions, anyone could be the sniper and anyone could become his next victim -- and only the men of the 87th Precinct stood between the people of the city and sudden violent, bloody death...

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. 87th Precinct Mystery. New York: Signet, 1986, ISBN: 0451145984, 160 p., $2.95.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (UK ca. 1979)

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When an assistant DA had his brains blown out while drinking a glass of Scotch, the Commissioner wanted to know what the hell was happening?

Earlier victims of the unseen sniper included executives, a greengrocer and a prostitute.

What was the link between them?... University?...a frayed programme?... a teenage orgy?... and who was next in line for a copper-jacketed .308 bullet?

Steve Carella was given an army of detectives to work with. All he had to do was to find the enemy...

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. London: Pan Books, ca. 1979, ISBN: 0330241168, 189 p., £1.75.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (USA 1977)

From the Publisher:
SNIPER!
Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, and the 87th Precinct regulars were faced with the kind of killer who was a cop's worst nightmare. From a rooftop or an open window, his missiles of death sped silently to their targets, and one after another the cold, cold corpses piled up.

The boys of the 87th could only watch and wait and worry, trying to spot a pattern where no pattern seemed to exist, hoping to catch a cool, clever killer and put an end to his vendetta of blood. But in a city of millions, anyone could be the sniper and anyone could become his next victim -- and only the men of the 87th Precinct stood between the people of the city and sudden violent, bloody death...

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. An explosive sizzling 87th Precinct Mystery. Signet Y7463, ISBN: 0451074637 (May, 1977), 170 p., $1.25.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (UK 1967)

From the Publisher:
One nice spring day Anthony Forrest reeled back to collide with a girl in yellow. He was dead even before he hit the pavement.
Forrest was the sniper's first victim. More deaths followed. Detective Steve Carella hated sniper cases.
There were ten million people in the city, and any one of them could be either the murderer - or the next victim.
All too slowly a pattern formed: an old theatre programme, a long-ago teenage orgy... meanwhile the men on the 87th Precinct raced against time before the killer struck again.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, Penguin Books C2565, 188 p., 3'6.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (USA 1964)

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"Carella, you the guy who's handling this sniper case?"
"I'm the guy. Have you got something for me?"
"Yeah."
"What is it?"
"Another stiff."

That made six -- an executive, a lawyer, a pros-titute, a district attorney, a fruit peddler, and a gag writer -- each with a tiny hole in the head. Where was the pattern? Was this a madman, shooting at random? Or was there a motive behind the killings? If the sniper had a death list, how many names were on it? And who was the next in line?

Detective Steve Carella and his buddies at the 87th had to find out quickly -- before the sniper struck again.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. Newest 87th Precinct Mystery. New York: Permabooks, 1964, Permabook Edition M4304, 181 p., 35¢.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One (USA 1963)

From the Publisher:
Nobody thinks about death on a nice spring day. (And it was a nice spring day.) Anthony Forrest wasn't thinking about death. He was thinking about the restaurant he was going to, and about his wife whom he was meeting there. He was thinking about the good life he had. So he hardly had time to think about the bullet that plowed between his eyes, knocking him to the sidewalk, dead.

Detective Steve Carella of the 87th took the squeal, cursing his luck: he didn't like sniper cases. A sniper too often worked in a ran-dom pattern, shooting sporadically, invisibly, senselessly.

That seemed to be the way this sniper worked. More deaths followed and none of the victims aeemed to have anything in common with any of the others. Was he a madman shooting at random? Or was there a motive behind the killings? If he had a list of people he intended to kill, how many names were on it? And who was next in line?

Finally, Carella began to see a pattern. He amassed an army of detectives, patrolmen, lab tech-nicians and stool pigeons. They worked around the clock, racing against time to find the sniper before he killed again.

Ten Plus One is the story of a clever and ruthless killer, and of the equally clever police work by the detectives of the 87th Precinct.

Ed McBain: Ten Plus One. An 87th Precinct Mystery Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963, 254 p., $3.50.