Learning to Kill

A “gripping” collection of crime stories from the author of the acclaimed 87th Precinct novels ( People ).   Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct is “perhaps the finest police procedural series of all time” ( Publishers Weekly ). But before he turned to novels, McBain wrote short crime fiction under various names, for pulp magazines including Manhunt and Argosy . Collected in this anthology are twenty-five of these early stories, organized under headings such as “Women in Jeopardy,” “Private Eyes,” “L