Ed McBain (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
87th Precinct, 1956-.
Principal Series Characters
Steven Louis Carella, the 87th Precinct’s senior police detective, is between thirty-five and forty years old. Tall, athletic, and of Italian descent, he is intensely devoted to his wife, a beautiful deaf-mute, and to their twin children. Honest, intelligent, tenacious, and experienced, Carella is humanized by his humor, temporary defeats, and unsentimental concern for denizens of his hard world.
The Deaf Man, who periodically appears in the series, is a cunning, big-city superhood who...
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