Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here!

A very good read, no chapters but split into Nightshade and Daywatch. Nearly all the 87th cops are featured.

Carella and Hawes investigate the murder of an actress.
Meyer looks into the supernatural when a woman claims ghosts stole her jewelry.
Kling is on call for a church that has been bombed.
Bob O’Brien is on runaway detail, a woman is searching for her 24 year old daughter though Bob informs her he cannot do anything since her daughter is an adult.
Hal Wallis and new detective Richard Genero (he was a patrolman in prior books) look into a probable suicide of a young hippie.
Slovenly cop Andy Parker stakes out a grocery store that has been robbed a few times. It ends in a shooting, Parker is not very well liked by the other cops. Arthur Brown checks into the shooters.
Carl Kapek is cop who never was featured much before, he handles the mugging of a Marine.
Det. Delgado is another cop not portrayed much, he investigates the beating of a husband and father.

Check this out to see what happens in all the cases.

This one keeps you on your toes. Rather than using chapters to switch from one crime to another, the story changes through several concurrent crimes and investigations. Somehow, rather than being confusing, it works. I love McBains style but had a few jolts while reading this book as descriptives were used that would not be sanctioned today but would instead be very racist terms. Still, Im a big 87th Precinct fan.

When I started this book I had no real idea of what the title refered to, maybe a party at the 87th Precinct. Wow! Was I off base. You get to meet all the Precinct detectives in a rapid-fire series of widely varying cases. The writing style is typical McBain, realistic dialogue, often off on a tangent, sometimes humorous. The format, though, is different, very few chapter breaks, one case immediately switching to another, in some instances, the dialogue seems continuous but you find yourself abruptly in the next case. Just an interestingly different read of an old-fashioned detective story.
Have fun.

My favorite 87th Precinct novel but the ebook version is formatted poorly. The book’s story has MULTIPLE story lines but there are no section breaks when the scene switches. This makes a book that is already jammed with characters and stories harder to follow than it needs to be. the section breaks are important to this book. Love McBain, love this book, love the price, the formatting makes reading confusing.

There are several stories, and there is no transition between them. It’s one long continuous text, with nothing to tell you the scene has changed other than than the change of characters.

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