Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast

Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest: Thomas Underground

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast.Well, it's been a while (42 months or so, as of release of this) so we thought it high (not low) time we g...

Ed McBain's Fiddlers - Book 55, Bonus: Celebration Train

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode! In fact, it's the last ever bonus episode. And everything went fine, yessir, no technical hitches o...

Ed McBain's Fiddlers - Book 55: A Very Long Pope

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. In fact, it's the last (except our bonus episode) of the main series of this podcast as we arrive at the final bo...

Ed McBain's Merely Hate - Book 54a: FIFTY-SIX?

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct bonus extra minipod! Before we approach the final book in the official series of the 87th Precinct, we need to divert down...

Ed McBain's Hark! - Episode 54, bonus: Stars In Your Mouths

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode! This is the bonus for our show all about the 54th (of 55!) novel in the series, Hark! As usual we t...

Ed McBain's Hark! - Book 54: Violins All Round

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. It's 2004 and we're finally examining the book that we named the podcast after... HARK! Our old frenemy, The Deaf...

Ed McBain's Love Or Money - Book 53a: Air Vent Temptation

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct bonus mini-episode. In 2003 the BBC ran a writing competition and amongst the eight 'famous' authors taking part was Mr Mc...

Ed McBain's The Frumious Bandersnatch - Book 53, Bonus: The Anti-Palm

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus episode! This is the bonus episode accompanying our look at The Frumious Bandersnatch. You know the drill by...

Ed McBain's The Frumious Bandersnatch - Book 53: Heist-Lights

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. This is our show all about 2004's book, The Frumious Bandersnatch. McBain once again takes on the creative indust...

Ed McBain's Fat Ollie's Book - Book 52, Bonus: Residual Swamp Musk

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode! Merry christmas and happy holidays to you all. This is the bonus episode to accompany our look at M...

Ed McBain's Fat Ollie's Book - Book 52: NINETY MINUTES?

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast. It's 2002/03 and Ed McBain has written probably the most overtly comic novel in the entire series of the 87th Pre...

Ed McBain‘s Money Money Money - Book 51, Bonus: Howitts Made

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Having slogged through the grim world of 2001's terrorism, money laundering and drugs in the 51st...

Ed McBain‘s Money Money Money - Book 51: Harmless Corruption

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. It's 2001 and, shortly before everything changed, McBain publishes his 51st novel in the series, which takes in...

Ed McBain‘s The Last Dance - Book 50, Bonus: Dutch Silly Pop

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. The year is 2000. The millenium has ticked over and we're still not flying in personal rockets to...

Ed McBain‘s The Last Dance - Book 50: Rotor Quota

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast It's the 21st century and Ed McBain has just released the 50th book in the 87th Precinct series. It's The Last D...

Ed McBain's The Big Bad City - Book 49, Bonus: A Hint Of Airport

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode. We've looked into the 49th novel of the series, The Big Bad City, in our main episode so now it's...

Ed McBain's The Big Bad City - Book 49: Tired Snakes Painted Yellow

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast! We're back, after a slightly longer than usual break, with a look at the 49th book of the series - the last of...

Ed McBain's Nocturne - Book 48, Bonus: Much Scenery Was Chewed

12 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. This is the bonus material for our examination of 1997's 'Nocturne'. We look at an increasingly p...

Ed McBain's Nocture - Book 48: The Essence Of A Big Hat

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. McBain returns, after a break from the series in 1996 for reasons we outline, to bring us this tale of terrible...

Ed McBain's Reruns - Minipod: Something Fall Guy

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast mini-episode. This is a little bonus for you all whilst we're still getting sorted ready to tackle Nocturne, the...

Ed McBain's Romance - Book 47, Bonus: Scrabble With An Exotic Bird

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. This is the bonus attached to our review of Book 47 - the theatrical whirlwind that is 'Romance'....

Ed McBain's Romance - Book 47: A Pudding That Can Change Colour

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast. We've reached 1995. McBain has reached the 47th book in his long running series and he's decided that it's thea...

Ed McBain's Mischief - Book 45, Bonus: Mr Soft Bendy Strange Thing

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. This is the bonus episode to accompany our look at 1993's Mischief. We take a look at the covers ...

Ed McBain's Mischief - Book 45: Worse Than Dutch Ghosts?

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! The year is 1993 and after last year's pretty straightforward offering (Kiss), Mr McBain brings us the exact op...

Ed McBain's Kiss - Book 44, Bonus: Old Wardrobe Odour

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Of course, we begin as usual with our look at the original US and UK book covers - and an interna...

Ed McBain's Kiss - Book 44: No Disrespect To Walter Matthau

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. We've reached book 44 and the year 1992 and McBain's offering for the year is KISS. Courtroom drama, a triangle...

Ed McBain's Widows - Book 43, Bonus: As Real As A Cooked Dinner

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Following on from our look at 1991's Widows, we explore 1991 in general. Eyes on music, cinema an...

Ed McBain's Widows - Book 43: What An Awful Day

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. Happy new year everyone. Join us on our January adventure through the 43rd book in McBain's series - the multi-...

Ed McBain's And All Through The House - Xmas episode: Cast Your Backs

25 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ho Ho Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Christmas party episode! Whilst we're counting it as an official entry in the 87th Precinct books canon (book numb...

Ed McBain's Vespers - Book 42, Bonus: Two Up And One Across

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. Following on from our main episode's examination of the satantic tale, Vespers, we explore the co...

Ed McBain's Vespers - Book 42, Treeriness

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. We enter a new decade and McBain begins it in dark, despairing mode, with the story of a murdered priest, drugs...

Ed McBain's Lullaby - Book 41, Bonus: The Beige Spectrum

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. This is the accompanying thingy for our main episode all about 1989's Lullaby - murder, guns and ...

Ed McBain's Lullaby - Book 41: The Krypton Factor with Lech Wałęsa

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. 1988 was untroubled by any McBain 87th Precinct books, so we're now in 1989 with the 41st entry into the series...

Ed McBain's Tricks - Book 40, Bonus: A Yeti Goes To A House

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Seen as we looked at 1986 in the last episode, we're catching back up to 1987 this time with a lo...

Ed McBain's Tricks - Book 40: The Final Squirrel

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. It's the second of the books in the series to come out in 1987 and this time McBain has firmly targeted the Hal...

Ed McBain's Poison - Book 39, Bonus: 200 Year Old Scouser

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode. So, here's to Golden Days and Purple Nights! In this bonus we explore the origins of this phrase...

Ed McBain's Poison - Book 39: Richie Benaud Blazer

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. We've arrived into 1987 - a year in which two 87th Precinct books appear - so we spend some of this episode exp...

Ed McBain's Eight Black Horses - Book 38, Bonus: Very Fretless Bass

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. Following our run-down of the Deaf Man's schemes in our main episode, we turn our attention to th...

Ed McBain's Eight Black Horses - Book 38: Professor Hair

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast. We're in 1985 and who better to come along to mark the halfway point of the decade but the 87th Precinct's nemesi...

Ed McBain's Lighting - Book 37, Bonus: Dystopian Fozzy Bear

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode. Following on from our discussion of the dark and difficult book 'Lightning' we take our usual gander at t...

Ed McBain's Lightning: A Lunatic Empire Man

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. This episode is all about the 37th book in the series - a brutal and dark tale of serial criminals. We discuss ...

Hark! Bonus Interview with Erin MacDonald

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast special edition. Joining Paul for this interview is author and professor of English, Erin MacDonald. Erin wrote ...

Ed McBain's Ice - Book 36, Bonus: Perfumey Tang

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode. Join us as we dip nose-deep into our varying copies of McBain's 1983 epic, ICE as well as explori...

Ed McBain's Ice - Book 36: Orbit of a UFO

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. So McBain took a year off in 1982, but in 1983 he returned to the precinct with Ice - a longer novel and one th...

Ed McBain's Heat - Book 35, Bonus: No Context Midriff

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. 1981. An alcoholic cop steps out of his car. He's reached the island. The place he could make a d...

Ed McBain's Heat - Book 35: Ten Popes

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! And we begin with an apology - no backup recording means Paul's mic is terribly distorted. Sorry, but you're go...

Ed McBain's Ghosts - Book 34, Bonus: Maritime Calamities

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's a remote-recorded 87th Precinct Bonus Episode. Are you ready for the world's first ever round of remote-recorded book-huffing? Will Morga...

Ed McBain's Ghosts - Book 34: AWOL In The Bush

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. This is the podcast all about 1980's spooktacular story, Ghosts. Has McBain gone mad or is he just showing off ...

Ed McBain's Calypso - Book 33, Bonus: Schrödinger's Catchphrase

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus episode! Firstly - sorry, this goes on a bit and it also gets quite silly and pretty self-indulgent. What,...

Ed McBain's Calypso - Book 33: Approved By Horse

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast. Book 33 in the sage takes up to the end of the 1970s. It's 1979 and Calypso singer King George Chadderton has b...

Mini-Pod: A Selection of Pseudonyms for Sal Lombino

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast Mini-pod. To fill a gap in our main schedule, Paul presents this quick run-through of the various pseudonyms/nam...

Ed McBain's Long Time No See - Book 32, Bonus: Dickens With Ferrets

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. This is our bonus episode for book 32 in the series, a tale of war-trauma, multiple slayings and ...

Ed McBain's Long Time No See - Book 32: Tubes Up To The Moon

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. Welcome to 2020 everyone. Now that that's out of the way, let's go back to 1977 and the grim slayings of Blind ...

Side-pod: Find The Feathered Serpent - Reduckulous

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct side-pod! Happy New Year everyone. Thanks for joining us again in 2020. To kick things off, whilst the regular team are ...

Side-pod: Barney Miller, Christmas Story - Exotic Yoxall

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus Christmas episode! Many festive greetings unto you and yours from us and ours. We've finally taken the plu...

Side-pod: Appointment On Mars - The Phantom Of The Opera Duck

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast side-pod! Paul is joined in this episode by old friend and this podcast's first ever guest, illustrator Adam Pax...

Ed McBain's So Long As You Both Shall Live - Book 31, Bonus: Drinking Tea In An Igloo

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode! This is the bonus episode for book 31, So Long As You Both Shall Live - Bert and Augusta are married. Hap...

Ed McBain's So Long As You Both Shall Live - Book 31: Famed For Chili Measurement

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. It's 1976, it's Bert Kling and Augusta Blair's wedding day and nothing can surely trouble the boys of the eight...

Ed McBain's Blood Relatives - Book 30, Bonus: Mad As A Hairbrush

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. As per usual, we follow up our main episode discussion (all about Blood Relatives) with our exami...

Ed McBain's Blood Relatives - Book 30: Binyon's Gulch

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. It's a dark and tragic tale that Steve Carella finds himself investigating in 1975's Blood Relatives. This shoc...

Ed McBain's Bread - Book 29, Bonus: Mid-70s Derek Nimmo

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. We follow up our main episode's discussion of the 29th Book in the series, Bread, with our usual ...

Ed McBain's Bread - Book 29: Pronts

23 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! After book 28, the satirical Nixon-baiting Hail To The Chief, we're back on firmer procedural ground with 1974'...

Ed McBain's Hail To The Chief - Book 28, Bonus: A Double Donald Scenario

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct bonus episode! We follow up our discussion about 1973's HAIL TO THE CHIEF with a bit of a quiz of the year in music and ...

Ed McBain's Hail To The Chief - Episode 28: Grotbags?

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! Here we are, still in 1973, but sat next to Ed McBain, examining his typewriter which surely took some beatin...

Ed McBain's Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man - Episode 27, Bonus: Little Jimmy The Croc

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct podcast bonus episode. Here we are, off the back of our review of the 27th book in the series, Let's Hear It For The Dea...

Ed McBain's Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man - Episode 27: Weeping For Dusty-Bin

31 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! It's 1973 and The Deaf Man is back to taunt the cops of the 87th Precinct and to confirm his status as Steve Ca...

Hark! Solo-pod: Short Stories - Roger Lasagna?

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast bonus stopgap, er, thing... Just so you don't go mad waiting to hear Paul's dulcet tones again, here's a short e...

Ed McBain's Sadie When She Died - Episode 26, Bonus: The Chimp Looks Great

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

HARK! It's an 87th Precinct bonus podcast. Learn everything about 1972, the year in which the 26th book in the 87th Precinct series was published, ...

Ed McBain's Sadie When She Died - Episode 26: Played By An Ocelot

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

H*A*R*K It's an 87th Precinct podcast! The year is 1972 and Gerald Fletcher has just come home to find his wife eviscerated on the bedroom floor and...

Side-Pod - Rocket To Luna - Your Eyebrows Ran Away

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

IGNITION! It's an 87th Precinct Side-Pod. Strap on your heavy metal space boots, take a sip from your feeding tube and hail that space taxi - we're ...

Ed McBain's Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! - Episode 25, Bonus: Orange Orange Orange

29 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode. Well, here we are with our usual look at the book covers of the original US and UK editions of this 1971 ...

Ed McBain's Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! - Episode 25: A Little Bile

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! It's celebration time for the eight-seven, because this is the twenty-fifth book in the series and McBain has i...

Ed McBain's Jigsaw - Episode 24, Bonus: Bald At Home

23 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode. We follow up our examination of the twenty-fourth 87th Precinct book with our usual run-down of the origi...

Ed McBain's Jigsaw - Episode 24: Lascivious Scares

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast. Well, we've done it everyone - we've made it to the Seventies and the first book of that decade is JIGSAW - Det...

Hark! Solo-pod: Ed McBain Magazines and Comics

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct extra-special bonus side-pod podcast! Inspired by a query about a particular magazine from the 1970s by the author Sarah...

Ed McBain's Shotgun - Episode 23, Bonus: John Candy and The Borrowers

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct bonus episode. We're back for our follow-up to the main podcast all about the gruesome story from 1969, Shotgun. As alwa...

Ed McBain's Shotgun - Episode 23: Belly Preston

15 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast The cops of the Eight-Seven are often dealing with some pretty messy crimes and this book, Shotgun, has one of t...

Sidepod: Fuzz (1972) - Nourish A Vagrant

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Sidepod! In this episode, Paul is joined by fan-of-Burt-Reynolds and podcaster (in that order?), John Rain. You can find...

Ed McBain's Fuzz - Episode 22, Bonus: A Ginger Sniff

18 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode! Welcome back to 1968 and Ed McBain's "FUZZ". In this episode we, of course, take our traditional look at ...

Ed McBain's Fuzz - Episode 22: Chewing A Donkey

11 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast! Even the most prolific writers need a year off, and so we've skipped past 1967 in our wait for the next 87th Pr...

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

15 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

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

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

Side Pod: Danger: Dinosaurs! - A Slimy Assistant

30 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

ROAR! It's an 87th Precinct Side-pod. Come with us now as we skate over the surface of time, bumping back through the years to 1953 and to the sto...

Side Pod: 87th Precinct Line Of Duty - Good Hat Acting

19 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct side-pod! We jump time-streams from the 87th Precinct of the written-word to the 87th Precinct of the acted-world, as ...

Ed McBain's Doll: Episode 20, Bonus - Rabbit or Darth Vader

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It’s an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode! Our focus is on the covers of our editions of Ed McBain’s twentieth 87th Precinct novel, Do...

Ed McBain's Doll: Episode 20 - A Surprise Roger

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It’s an 87th Precinct Podcast! Welcome back to 1965 and to the savage and strange world of “Doll” – the 20th novel in the series. ...

Hark! Bonus Interview: James Naughtie

02 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Extra Special Bonus Podcast! We're delighted to be able to bring you this short extra episode, which features a discus...

Ed McBain's He Who Hesitates - Episode 19, Bonus: A Bridge Glued To The Side Of His Head

22 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode! We're back with our usual round of exploring the physical book - looking at the editions and covers of ...

Ed McBain's He Who Hesitates - Episode 19: A Normal Crab and Iguanas

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast! Ed McBain's first 87th Precinct of 1965 is "He Who Hesitates" and it's a change from the norm. Join us as we...

Ed McBain s Ax Episode 18 Bonus Chief Superintendent Strange Noise

25 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode!** Following on from our main episode discussion of Ed McBain's 1964 87th Precinct novel, Ax (...

Ed McBain s Ax Episode 18 Drunken Bumdom

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast!** Careful with that ax(e), Eugene! Let's take a trip in the time-travelling toolshed back to 1964 and the 1...

Side pod The Birds Oh My Giddy Aunt THWACK

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Sidepod!** Join Paul and his special guest, Herbert West of the Doctor Who Podcast “Trial Of A Timelord”, as the...

Ed McBain s Ten Plus One Episode 17 Bonus The Spiral Staircase

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode!** We continue to discuss the 1963 novel, Ten Plus One, or rather our copies and the various original ...

Ed McBain s Ten Plus One Episode 17 Quality Manly Reading

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast!** Welcome back to the books! After our fantastic diversion off to New York to meet Otto Penzler, we're firm...

Hark Bonus Interview Otto Penzler at the Mysterious Bookshop

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Extra Special Bonus Podcast!** We're absolutely thrilled to be bringing you this podcast - an interview with publish...

Ed McBain s Like Love Episode 16 Bonus Boris Becker In Jeopardy

15 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode!** You chose the title (well, the seven of you who voted), so find out what it's all about in ...

Ed McBain s Like Love Episode 16 Put Rum In It

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's the 87th Precinct Podcast** Put your time-trousers on and slip back with us to the second part of 1962, as we experience something Li...

Ed McBain s The Empty Hours Episode 15 Bonus Crime Prevention Knees

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Bonus Episode!** Paul's research into the different first editions of Ed McBain's 1962 collection of "novele...

Ed McBain s The Empty Hours Episode 15 Carry On Candelabra

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast!** Join us on our journey to find out what happens during "The Empty Hours" - McBain's collection of three n...

Side Pod The Young Savages A Glistening Pompadour

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Podcast Sidepod!** The team takes in the John Frankenheimer directed film "The Young Savages" from 1961. The film wa...