Ed McBain's Eighty Million Eyes - Episode 21, Bonus: Bees or Capsules?

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Podcast!

Hullo again - here we are with our usual extra-slice of McBain-ing, where we take our usual look at the publishing history and the front covers of the first editions of the book, in this case 1966's Eighty Million Eyes, as well as letting you know what we've been reading and, most importantly, how they smell. Stevo is at his most huffingly poetic in this.

We then tackle a listener question about formats for adapting the 87th Precinct and then jump back to investigate the film "Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment". All this and spy crocodiles too!

Please rate, review and share, and then join us soon for the next book in the series, 1968's FUZZ. Until then - Fare Thee Well.

Ed McBain's Eighty Million Eyes - Episode 21: Full Hovercraft Details

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast.

Well, it's January 2019, but we want to drag you over the time-platters back to 1966 and the twenty-first entry into the 87th Precinct series, Eighty Million Eyes. The novel itself is made up of two intertwined 'novelettes' and we look at the publishing history of the stories in their original form and then explore some of the features that make up the published work. The on-screen death of a TV star sends Meyer and Carella into a Witness chasing frenzy and Kling is assigned guard duty.

Before we get going, we explore the media, music, sport and politics of '66, including a discussion of the Miranda/Escobedo cases which will definitely come to be relevant as the series continues. We share some listener thoughts on the story, explore contemporary reviews and generally get dreamy over air-cushion based transport systems.

We're now hosted by PODBEAN, but hopefully you shouldn't experience any interruption of service. We'll be back soon with the accompanying bonus episode for this story and then the next story in the sequence is 1968's FUZZ. Happy New Year and Fare Thee Well!

A New Year - A New Host

Hullo everyone! A quick message from us to let you know that we've now moved to Podbean as our host for the podcast. This should enable us to manage the podcast distribution better, get great statistics on listens and really help us to reach more folks to share our love of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels.

The feed on iTunes/Apple Podcasts shouldn't be affected and we're working to check that all the other places you can get the pod are still up and running. We'll leave the back episodes up on our old host for now as well, but in the future you should see a lot more of this sort of player on the blog:

So, if you're interested in contributing to the show, then a great way to help would be to buy us a digital coffee at KO-FI - for $3, using Paypal and anything we receive will go into continuing to bring you the show, improve equipment, pay for hosting costs and such like. Thanks and Fare Thee Well.