Transgressions Vol. 3: Merely Hate/Walking the Line/Walking Around Money

By Donald E. Westlake, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765347520
• ISBN13: 9780765347527
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Westlake and Mosley in Top Form

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!