The best of McBain's acclaimed 87th Precinct series.
Once she was a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood in the snow. Detective Carella & Co are learning all about ice; in a million-dollar showbiz scam, in the diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small-time pusher. As the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is on.
'Crime Masterworks' is a library of the greatest crime fiction ever written, chosen with the help of today's leading crimewriters and critics. However, they are categorised - hard-boiled, suspense, police procedural - all books in the series are the best of their kind.