Killer's Choice book covers

We mentioned on the bonus episode the extreme differences between Paul and Stephen's 1970s Penguin editions of the book and Morgan's Allison & Busby edition from 2000. The evidence is here:

What inspired the publishers to put day-glo green text on a grey background is beyond us. Believe us when we say it looks much worse in real life than this picture suggests! Allison & Busby are still publishing crime fiction, amongst other things and it appears they've got their graphic design sorted now. They don't publish any 87th Precinct novels any more. 

Ed McBain's Killer's Choice - Episode 5, Bonus Episode: Who and The What-Whats?

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode!

A bit of a bumper bonus episode, as we take our traditional look at the editions of the books we've got and examine how the book was adapted for the TV episode in 1961.

Along the way we get some info wrong and Groff Conklin pops up as the Fact-Checking Ghost to set us right!

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Ed McBain's Killer's Choice - Episode Five: The High Road and Scotch Eggs

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast - Killer's Choice.

We've returned, with a bumper episode based on the 1958 novel "Killer's Choice" by Ed McBain. Along the way we answer a surprising amount of listener questions, corpse exquisitely and consider the ultimate question; Which is better - The Pit and The Pendulum or Emmerdale?

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See you soon for "Killer's Payoff".

Ed McBain's The Con Man - Episode Four, Bonus Episode: The Three Main Fluids

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode!

Carrying on from our main 2-parter, we examine (as usual) the different editions of the books we have. Chat about Gena Rowlands as Teddy Carella and discuss how we would cast a new 87th Precinct TV series in response to a listener question.

Our next book will be "Killer's Choice". 

Ed McBain's The Con Man - Episode Four: Who Wants A Crime? and A cross between Alan Moore and Bob Ross

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast episode 4  "The Con Man".

Originally a two part episode - now combined into one:

Original Part One Info:

"This time we're looking at the fourth novel (The Con Man - 1957) in the series and also looking at/comparing it to episode one of the 1961 TV series first episode, The Floater, which is adapted from this book.

This episode will be in two parts - next part next week, and some bonus material to follow after that! Hope you enjoy it!"

Original Part Two Info:

"We pick up where we left off in the last podcast, discussing both Ed McBain's 1957 book The Con Man and the first episode of the 87th Precinct TV series, The Floater. Along the way we get massively distracted by classic British police series, The Bill and develop a whole new and entirely implausible way to end the podcast."

Ed McBain's The Pusher - Episode 3, Bonus Episode: Book-Huffers

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct podcast Bonus Episode!

We have a look at our editions of The Pusher - discuss their relevant smells and graphics, Paul tells another story about a bookshop and then we finish in time to go and do a pub quiz (which we won).

Join us next time for The Con-Man!

Ed McBain's The Pusher - Episode 3: Large McGann

Welcome to Hark! Episode 3 - The Pusher!

The third of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series - we look at what could have been the last one, had they not been the successes they were and we answer some entirely unrelated listener questions along the way.