Ed McBain: Doll (USA ca. 1990)

From the Publisher:
It's playtime for maniacs in the 87th Precinct. A baby girl witnesses the brutal slaughter of her mother, while clutching a tattered toy that could help lead the police to the killer. A dead model, once beautiful, lies sprawled out on a bloodstained carpet -- a glamorous woman who discovered too late that, this year, murder is in fashion. And a living doll, a sexy showgirl who mixes love and pain in sensuous doses, holds the power of life and death over an unfortunate cop of the 87th who should know better.

Ed McBain: Doll. An 87th Precinct Novel. New York: Avon Books, ca. 1990, ISBN: 0380700824, 158 p., $4.50.

Ed McBain: Doll (UK ca. 1984)

From the Publisher:
A man grasping a kitchen knife slashed relentlessly at lovely Tinka Sachs. Obscenities and blade enveloped her in blood and spittle.

In the next room, the child Anna clung fiercely to her doll all night long.

Looking for the murderer, Carella found himself the prisoner of a lush brunette who would kill a man as easily as she could seduce him.

Solving the case proved difficult enough. Living to tell anyone about it seemed impossible...

Ed McBain: Doll. An 87th Precinct Mystery. London: Pan Books, ca. 1984, ISBN: 0330248235, 158 p., £1.95.

Ed McBain: Doll (UK 1976)

From the Publisher:
A man grasping a kitchen knife slashed relentlessly at lovely Tinka Sachs. Obscenities and blade enveloped her in blood and spittle.

In the next room, the child Anna clung fiercely to her doll all night long.

Looking for the murderer, Carella found himself the prisoner of a lush brunette who would kill a man as easily as she could seduce him.

Solving the case proved difficult enough. Living to tell anyone about it seemed impossible...

Ed McBain: Doll. An 87th Precinct Mystery. Pan Books, ISBN: 0330248235 (August, 1976), 158 p., 50p.

Ed McBain: Doll (USA 1975)

From the Publisher:
"PLEASE..." the beautiful model whispered as a savage killer slashed his knife across her naked flesh.
"PLEASE..." she whimpered as she died!

Through the thin hedroom wall 5-year-old Anna could hear her mother dying. As she clung to her doll, Anna listened to the maddened killer scream obscenities... then there were footsteps in the hall.

Detective Steve Carella, 87th Precinct, sickened by the senseless brutality, wanted to find this murderer fast. And he did... only to become a pawn in a deadly fight for his life!

Ed McBain: Doll. An 87th Precinct Thriller. Signet, ISBN: 034524530X (July, 1975), 160 p., $1.25.

Ed McBain: Doll (USA 1966)

From the Publisher:
"Scared?"
"No," Carella said evenly.
"What's your wife's name?" she asked.
"Teddy."
"That's a nice name. But you'll forget it soon enough, and her too."
Carella shook his head.
The girl loosened the sash at her waist. "I promise," she said, "In a week's time you won't even remember your own name." DOLL
"One of the most ferocious cases that Mr. McBain has yet dug up... with a nameless seductress who is beyond any doubt his most credible nightmare creation." -- The New Yorker

Ed McBain: Doll. An 87th Precinct Novel. New York: Dell, 1966, 159 p., 50¢.

Ed McBain: Doll (USA 1965)

From the Publisher:
It all began with the end of a living doll named Tina Sachs. A beauty who (judging from lab reports) had faded into statistics about twelve hours before the 87th got the call.

Tina had been one of the nation's top fashion models -- and her bizarre demise posed a lot of curious questions.

Nobody seemed to have an answer -- until Detective Steve Carella discovered how to make a dead doll talk.

DOLL is an unprecedented thriller -- charged with more than the usual amount of McBain irony and suspense. It is a unique case that one detective solves too quickly -- leaving the rest of the 87th Precinct completely in the dark, and with precious little time to see the light.

Ed McBain: Doll. An 87th Precinct Novel. New York: Delacorte Press, 1965, 190 p., $3.50.