Ed McBain: The Pusher (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
A bitterly cold night offers up a body turned blue -- not frozen, but swinging from a rope in a dank basement. The dead teen seems like a clear case of suicide, but Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Peter Byrnes find a few facts out of place, and an autopsy confirms their suspicions. The boy hadn't hung himself but OD'd on heroin before an unknown companion strung him up to hide the true cause of death. The revelation dredges up enough muck to muddy the waters of what should've been an open-and-shut case. To find the answers to a life gone off the rails, Carella and Byrnes face a deep slog into the community of users and pushers -- but a grim phone call discloses that very community already has its claws in a cop's son. A new pusher is staking a claim right under the 87th Precinct's noses, and it's up to Carella and Byrnes to snag the viper before it poisons their whole lives.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. An 87th Precinct Novel. Thomas & Mercer, ISBN: 9781477805749 (November, 2013), 210 p., $14.95.

Ed McBain: The Pusher (UK 2003)

From the Publisher:
Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter. A young man's body is found in a tenement basement. The rope around his neck suggests a clear case of suicide until the autopsy reveals he'd overdosed on heroin.

The victim was a pusher, and now the cops of the 87th Precinct have more questions than answers.
Who set up the hanging? Whose fingerprints are on the syringe found at the scene? Who is making threatening phone calls, implicating Lieutenant Byrnes' teenage son?

Somebody is pushing the 87th Precinct hard, and Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Byrnes have to push back harder - before a deadly chain tightens its grip.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. An 87th Precinct Novel. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752857932 (July, 2003), 180 p., £5.99.

Ed McBain: The Pusher (USA 2002)

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Most suicides don't realize the headaches they cause....
Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man's body was found in a tenement basement. The rope around his neck suggested a clear case of suicide -- until the autopsy revealed he'd overdosed on heroin. He was a pusher, and now a thousand questions pressed down on the detectives of the 87th Precinct: Who set up the phony hanging? Whose fingerprints were on the syringe found at the scene? Who was making threatening phone calls, attempting to implicate Lieutenant Byrnes' teenage son? Somebody was pushing the 87th Precinct hard, and Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Pete Byrnes have to push back harder -- before a frightening and deadly chain tightens its grip.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. A Novel of the 87th Precinct. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0743463056 (November, 2002), 227 p., $7.99.

Ed McBain: The Pusher (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
Hernandez's face wasn't blue with cold. He was a pusher, or had been. A rope around his neck and a spent syringe showed that.

Detective Kling, promoted off the beat, helped Steve Carella - more than Hernandez's sister, anyhow. She was a prostitute in a self-service vice dive. (She spilt nothing... except her own blood, and that later.)

In the face of an unholy complication Carella got himself right across the dope route and right on to the hospital danger list.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. An 87th Precinct Mystery. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1987, ISBN: 0140019707, 157 p., £1.95.

Ed McBain: The Pusher (UK 1978)

From the Publisher:
Hernandez's face wasn't blue with cold. He was a pusher, or had been. A rope round his neck and a spent syringe showed that.

Detective Kling, promoted off the beat, helped Steve Carella -- more than Hernandez's sister, anyhow. She was a prostitute in a self-service vice dive. (She spilt nothing... except her own blood, and that later.)

In the face of an unholy complication Carella got himself right across the dope route and right on to the hospital danger list.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. An 87th Precinct Mystery. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1978, ISBN: 0140019707, 157 p., 75p.

Ed McBain: The Pusher (UK 1963)

From the Publisher:
Hernandez's face wasn't blue with cold. He was a pusher, peddling heroin to junkies. Was? Had been. With a rope round his neck and a spent syringe beside him.

Detective Kling, promoted off the beat, helped Steve Carella-more, anyhow, than Hernandez's sister, a prostitute in a self-service vice dive. (She spilt nothing.... except her own blood, and that later.) In the face of an unholy complication Carella got himself right across the dope route and right on to the hospital danger list.

In a few short years Ed McBain has come crashing into the front rank of crime writers, both in print and on television.
With toughness, reality, and genuine compassion he exhibits the cosmopolitan quarter of a big American city under the criminal end of the microscope. His cops of the 87th Precinct cling precariously to a life made lighter by some of the best wise-cracking humour in American fiction, and made safer by the most modern police techniques. This is 'kick-the-door-down' crime at its very best.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1963, Penguin Books #1970, 157 p., 2'6.

Ed McBain: The Pusher (UK 1959)

From the Publisher:
His only sister was a heroin addict who sold her hody to pay for it. She gave lim his Grst shot for a joke and in a short time he was hooked. Then he began peddling the stuff, mostly to teenagers.

When the cops found him, he was sitting on a cot with an empty syringe at his feet and a rope, fastened to a barred window, knotted around his neck. It looked like suicide by hanging. But it wasn't. The cause of death proved to be an overdose of heroin, and the finger priuts on the syringe were not his

This is the third, hard hitting novel of the 87th Precinct. The characters and crimen are fictitious, but the police problems and methods are authentic.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. A Novel of the 87th Precinct. London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, 1959, American Blooshound Mystery No. 272, 192 p., 10s. 6d..

Ed McBain: The Pusher (USA 1956)

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HIS SISTER WAS ON HEROIN!
She sold her body to pay for it. She gave him his first shot as a joke.
In a short time, he was on it steady.
Then he began selling the stuff, mostly to other teen-agers.

When the cops found him, he was sitting on a cot with an empty syringe at his feet and a rope, suspended from the ceiling, knotted around his neck.

It looked like suicide by hanging. But it wasn't.
The cause of death proved to be an overdose of heroin. And the fingerprints on the syringe were not his.

Ed McBain: The Pusher. An 87th Precinct murder mystery revealing the inside story of dope traffic. New York: Permabooks, 1956, Permabooks #3062, 143 p., ¢25.