Transgressions [Mass Market Paperback]

Walter Mosley (Author), Donald E. Westlake (Author), Ed McBain (Author, Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0765347520 | ISBN-13: 978-0765347527 | Publication Date: October 3, 2006

New York Times bestsellers Ed McBain, Walter Mosely, and Donald Westlake each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stories edited by bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain.

"Merely Hate" by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.

"Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line" by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.

"Walking Around Money" by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all-new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he's left holding the bag.

Editorial Reviews

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"A deadpan-hilarious tale that should also serve as a Zen how-to for budding writers."--Booklist on "Walking Around Money"

"Mosley profiles an irrestible, off-beat hero."--Booklist on "Walking the Line"

"A jolly new story...about his humorous burglar hero Dortmunder."--Publishers Weekly on "Walking Around Money."

"Fresh insight to the 87th precint series."--Publishers Weekly on "Merely Hate"

"Such great prose."--Kirkus Reviews on "Walking the Line"

"Mosley introduces...one of the most bizarre and off-beat detectives in fictional history."--Mystery Scene on "Walking the Line"

"Mosley debuts a promisingly eccentric new hero."--Entertainment Weekly on "Walking the Line"

"A thrilling NYC police procedural."--Entertainment Weekly on "Merely Hate"

About the Author

Ed McBain was also known as Evan Hunter. His writing career has spanned almost five decades, from his first novel, The Blackboard Jungle, in 1954 to the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds to Candyland, written in tandem with his alter ego, Ed McBain, to his most recent novel, The Moment She Was Gone. He is the first American ever to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award. His last 87th Precinct novel was Fiddlers. Evan Hunter / Ed McBain passed away in Fall 2005.


Walter Mosley is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. His most recent novels are The Wave and Fortunate Son.

Donald Westlake has written numerous novels during the past 40 years, under his own name and various pseudonyms--most famously Richard Stark. He is generally regarded as the greatest writer of comic mystery of all time. Many of his books have been made into movies, including The Hunter which was filmed first as the noir classic with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, and then as Payback starring Mel Gibson. He has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, and has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books (October 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765347520
• ISBN-13: 978-0765347527
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Westlake and Mosley in Top Form, November 30, 2006

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Pete Falina "Pete" (Belfast, Maine) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Transgressions (Mass Market Paperback)

I owe double apologies to the departed Ed McBain/Evan Hunter. First of all, I wasn't even aware of "Transgressions" in hardcover. I was absolutely bowled over when I saw the first paperback volume in the market.

This particular volume is my favorite of the four paperbacks. There is a nice Dortmunder novella by Mr. Westlake, and, not to spoil it, but Mr. D. and his sidekick Andy Kelp actually triumph in the end.

Walter Mosley, of Easy Rawlins and Socrates Fortlow fame, turns in a non (maybe just not yet) series tale with a journalism student from Columbia U. becoming the 'scribe' for an 'anarchist at large.' If you like Mosley's previous work, you must not miss this one.

My second apology to Ed McBain goes like this: I was not impressed with his contribution to the group. The 87th Precinct tale is quite ordinary, and, to the cynical and pessimistic among us, no mystery at all. I found it blah and routine. Sorry, Ed, I wanted to like it. If this was the only 87th Precinct story you read, you would wonder what all the praise was for.

Westlake and Mosley fans, please do not pass this one by!

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4.0 out of 5 stars NOVELLETTE BOOK REVIEW, August 28, 2006

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FRANK SPREMULLI "PEOPLES ANALYST" (BROOKLYN, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transgressions (Hardcover)

ALL AUTHORS, WROTE NEW NOVELLA STORY TITLES DATED 2005, FILLED WITH SUSPENSE, GOOD CHARACTERS AND NEAT PLOTS.

MY FAVORITE WAS TITLED (MERELY HATE) BY ED MCBAIN, ABOUT MUSLIM CAB DRIVERS BEING SHOT DEAD, AND THE STAR OF DAVID SPRAYED ON THIER WINDSHIELDS, CAUSING TENSIONS IN THE PUBLIC AND STIRRED BY THE MEDIA.