87th Precinct Book List

In the following list, titles in the 'main' range are numbered 1 through 55, whilst the unnumbered entries list additional short-stories/novellas/cross-overs.

The Film/TV adaptation titles contain links to the relevant IMDB (or other appropriate site) listings, although we've not included every possible adaptation listing, as the table would end up unreadable (there's a lot more than you'd think). As of now (August 2019) we've stopped updating the book-by-book pages and removed the links. Most of this research is being saved for other purposes, but we'll share what we can on our social media links as appropriate.

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N.B. Whilst "And All Through The House" was originally published in Playboy in 1984 and as a special members-only "Book Club Edition", the most widely available release - the Warner illustrated edition - was in 1994 and so is being taken as the 46th book in the series, rather than the 38th. McBain's own website lists it as both 1984 and 1994 on different pages.

No. in Series	Title	Year of Release	Copyright reg./Publication date (if known)	Film/TV adaptation
1	Cop Hater	1956	20/03/56 10/04/56	Cop Hater (1958)
2	The Mugger	1956	20/08/56	The Mugger (1958)
3	The Pusher	1956	20/11/56 10/12/56	The Pusher (1960)
4	The Con Man	1957	15/03/57 10/04/57	87th Precinct: The Floater (25/9/61)
5	Killer's Choice	1957	15/01/58	Kraft TV Theater: Killer’s Choice (1958) 87th Precinct: Killer’s Choice (5/3/62) 87th Precinct: New Man In The Precinct (16/4/62) Kao no nai onna: Kurushima keiji no hôkokusho yori (Japan) (2007)
6	Killer's Payoff	1958	15/05/58	87th Precinct: Killer’s Payoff (6/11/61)
7	Lady Killer	1958	15/08/58	87th Precinct: Lady Killer (9/10/61)
8	Killer's Wedge	1958	09/01/59	87th Precinct: Lady In Waiting (2/10/61) La Soupe aux Poulets (France) (1963) Kyōfu no jikan (Japan) (1964) Theatre of Stars: Deadlock (1967) Plus Rien à Perdre (22/10/68) The Way of Murder (Russia/Ukraine) (1993) Satsui (Japan) (2005)
9	Til Death	1959	18/09/59	87th Precinct: Til Death (11/12/61)
10	King's Ransom	1959	20/11/59	87th Precinct: King’s Ransom (19/2/62) High and Low (1963) Inkaar (India) (1977/8) Dongala Veta (India - Telugu) (1978) Taiyo Eiro! 571 - Abduction (Japan) (1983) Tengoku to jigoku (Japan) (2007)
11	Give the Boys a Great Big Hand	1960	11/03/60 25/03/60	87th Precinct: Give The Boys A Great Big Hand (15/1/62)
12	The Heckler	1960	15/07/60	87th Precinct: The Heckler (18/12/61)
13	See Them Die	1960	09/12/60
14	Lady, Lady I Did It	1961	08/12/61	Kofuku (Lonely Heart) (Japanese) (1981)
15	The Empty Hours (three short novellas)	1962	13/04/62 19/05/62	87th Precinct: Empty Hours (20/11/61)
16	Like Love	1962	14/12/62
17	Ten Plus One	1963	09/08/63	Sans Mobile Apparent (France) (1971)
18	Ax	1964	11/09/64
19	He Who Hesitates	1965	26/04/65
20	Doll	1965	11/10/65	Panenka (Czech) (1980)
21	80 Million Eyes	1966	04/04/66
22	Fuzz	1968	13/09/68	Fuzz (1972)
23	Shotgun	1969	15/11/68 (23/05/69)	Brokovnice (Czech) (1992)
24	Jigsaw	1970	27/03/70	Skladacka (Czech) (1991) Columbo: Undercover (1994)
25	Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here	1971	16/04/71
26	Sadie When She Died	1972	11/08/72
27	Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man	1973	29/01/73
28	Hail to the Chief	1973	12/09/73
29	Bread	1974	02/10/74
30	Blood Relatives	1975	22/10/75	Blood Relatives (1978)
31	So Long as You Both Shall Live	1976	04/05/76	Columbo: No Time To Die (1992)
32	Long Time No See	1977	29/03/77
33	Calypso	1979	17/05/79
34	Ghosts	1980	20/05/80
35	Heat	1981	13/11/81	Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997)
36	Ice	1983	15/03/83	Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Ice (1996)
37	Lightning	1984	31/08/84	Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995)
38	Eight Black Horses	1985	31/07/85
39	Poison	1987	04/05/87
40	Tricks	1987	06/11/87
	McBain's Ladies	1988		Story extract compilation
41	Lullaby	1989	31/01/89
	McBain's Ladies Too	1989		Story extract compilation
42	Vespers	1990	03/01/90
43	Widows	1991	02/01/91
44	Kiss	1992	07/01/92
45	Mischief	1993	07/07/93
46	And All Through the House	1994	01/11/94
47	Romance	1995	01/04/95
48	Nocturne	1997	01/05/97
	Reruns	1997		Short story in TV Guide magazine
49	The Big Bad City	1999	14/01/99
50	The Last Dance	2000	14/12/99
51	Money, Money, Money	2001	06/09/01
52	Fat Ollie's Book	2003	02/01/03
53	The Frumious Bandersnatch	2004	02/12/03
	Love Or Money	2004		Short story for BBC 'End Of Story'
54	Hark!	2004	06/07/04
	Merely Hate	2005		Published in Transgressions
55	Fiddlers	2005	12/09/05