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Cop Hater is a 1958 American crime film noir police procedural film based on the 1956 novel Cop Hater written by Ed McBain, the first in a series of books about the 87th Precinct in New York City.
Cop Hater: Directed by William Berke. With Robert Loggia, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ellen Parker, Shirley Ballard. The hardworking detectives of the 87th Precinct in an unnamed city during a massive heat wave investigate the seemingly random murders of policemen.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- William Berke
- 1958-10-01
Cop Hater (1956) is the first 87th Precinct police procedural novel by Ed McBain. The murder of three detectives in quick succession in the 87th Precinct leads Detective Steve Carella on a search that takes him into the city's underworld and ultimately to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head.
Cop Hater is a police procedural about someone killing cops, set in the fictional city of Isola. While it was written in the 1950's, women and minorities get better treatment in this book than in a lot of its contemporaries.
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- Mass Market Paperback
May 8, 2012 · The debut novel from EdMcBain’s gritty 87th Precinct series, Cop Hater was hailed by the New York Times as “the best of today's procedural school of police stories―lively, inventive, convincing, suspenseful, and wholly satisfactory.”
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The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories by American author Ed McBain (a writing pseudonym of Evan Hunter). McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions.
The 87th Precinct cops in Isola, New York: Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1), The Mugger (87th Precinct, #2), The Pusher (87th Precinct, #3), The Con Man (8...
