Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast

Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ed McBain's Fiddlers - Book 55, Bonus: Celebration Train
May 25, 2022

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 or anything (*nervously runs finger around collar, eyes darting about the room*). We explore as alwa

Ed McBain's Fiddlers - Book 55: A Very Long Pope
May 16, 2022

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 book in the saga of the boys of Grover Avenue. It's Fiddlers. The corpses are piling up and the squad have

Ed McBain's Merely Hate - Book 54a: FIFTY-SIX?
April 27, 2022

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 a side-track to look at the book TRANSGRESSIONS - ten novellas selected and edited by Ed McBain. The boo

Ed McBain's Hark! - Episode 54, bonus: Stars In Your Mouths
March 28, 2022

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 take a look at the cover designs for the book then settle back into the usual nonsense from the year of pu

Ed McBain's Hark! - Book 54: Violins All Round
March 16, 2022

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 Man, is back and this time his scheme is more baffling than ever. We dig into this, the penultimate entr

Ed McBain's Love Or Money - Book 53a: Air Vent Temptation
March 02, 2022

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 McBain himself. After generating a short-story for the competition entrants to complete, the authors also w

Ed McBain's The Frumious Bandersnatch - Book 53, Bonus: The Anti-Palm
February 04, 2022

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 now... we look at the book cover designs from the States, the UK and around the world then dig into the

Ed McBain's The Frumious Bandersnatch - Book 53: Heist-Lights
January 27, 2022

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 industries and the squad's first kidnapping since King's Ransom. Is the author eating his cake and having it to

Ed McBain's Fat Ollie's Book - Book 52, Bonus: Residual Swamp Musk
December 22, 2021

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 McBain's comic tour-de-force Fat Ollie's Book. We go through some contemporary reviews (forgot to do them

Ed McBain's Fat Ollie's Book - Book 52: NINETY MINUTES?
December 16, 2021

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 Precinct. Follow us as we tag along with Fat Ollie Weeks to see if he can find (a) a murderer, (b) his book