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	Isola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isola, Alpes-Maritimes, a village of the Alpes-Maritimes département of France.
		Isola del Gran Sasso, a town located in the Teramo province in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
		Isola is the Italian name of the town of Izola in Slovenia, on the Istrian peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isola (151 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Isola (fictional city)
		Isola is a section of a fictional city that is the setting for the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).
		The city, which is never named in any of the books, is clearly based on New York City, and similarly, has five sections, corresponding with the five boroughs of New York: Isola (Manhattan), Bethtown (Staten Island), Calm's Point (Brooklyn), Majesta (Queens), and Riverhead (Bronx).
		It has two major rivers, the Harb and the Dix, which inexplicably flow in a westerly direction despite the fact that Isola is on the East Coast.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Isola_(fictional_city) (155 words)

	Tiber - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The ford at the island was probably the most ancient settlement of the city.
		Popularly called flavus, "the blonde river", the Tiber is heavily charged with sediment but does not form a proportionable delta, owing to a strong north-flowing sea current close to the shore, to the steep shelving of the coast, and to slow tectonic subsidence.
		Tiberium, a fictional life form from the Command and Conquer series of computer games, is named after the Tiber river, near which it was first discovered.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/i/b/Tiber.html (688 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Big Bad City: Books: Ed McBain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Though his city is fictional, it breathes with the darkness and gritty reality of many American cities.
		The Big Bad City is the 49th Novel of the 87th Precinct, and those that are familiar with Ed McBain's previous works won't dispute the fact that he's a great mystery writer, but the thing that I enjoy most is his sense of humor.
		Isola may be fictitious, but by now, fifty books along, i could walk its streets with less chance of getting lost than i would if in Chicago, where i was born fifty years ago.
	www.amazon.ca /Big-Bad-City-Ed-McBain/dp/0671025694 (1783 words)

	List of fictional cities
		Like fictional countries, most fictional cities resemble either a specific place or present one version of archetypal place.
		City of the Iron fish[?] by Simon Ings[?]
		Arkham, Dunwich[?] (the fictional one), Exham[?], Kingsport[?], Innsmouth[?], R'lyeh, and Y'ha-nthlei[?], of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Fictional_cities.html (553 words)

	List of fictional cities - Internet-Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Like fictional countries, and fictional counties, most fictional cities either resemble a specific place or represent a broader archetype.
		Leshp, city of the squids, temporary island in the Circle Sea, cause of a war between Klatch and Ankh-Morpork in on Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo)
		Maardam - The city in northern europe that is the setting of several Håkan Nesser novels.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.com /ie/l/li/list_of_fictional_cities.html (3043 words)

	Isola di Rifiuti
		(Fictioneers who “begin” as poets, that’s another matter, they’s just building up stamina.) As oft-suspect’d, poems get writ by compleat narcissists, gents and ladies most apt to plummet into abject narcolepty at the mention of the Other.
		Given the British genius for coded utterance, this could be about something else entirely, impossible on this side of the ocean to appreciate in any nuanced way—but assuming that it really is about who owns the right to describe using gentian violet for ringworm, for heaven’s sake, allow me a gentle suggestion.
		To discover in the course of research some engaging detail we know can be put into a story where it will do some good can hardly be classed as a felonious act—it is simply what we do.
	isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com (4051 words)

	Evan Hunter
		Whereas each of the early novels basically focuses on the commission and solution of a single crime and presents several sub-plots largely for the purposes of pacing and diversion, the distinction between focal and secondary plotlines narrows considerably in the later novels.
		Because each element of the narration usually involves a distinct element of the social milieu of the large city which is the setting, each of the later novels provides, in effect, a broader framework for the expression of a rich diversity of attitudes and voices.
		What makes the 87th Precinct novels--particularly the later novels in the series--both entertaining and fictionally compelling is what is on display more broadly in Mischief: McBain's ability to depict the city's extraordinary variety of social milieus within a narrative that has both a unity of effect and of theme.
	www.wright.edu /~martin.kich/BookBox/McBain.htm (2766 words)

	Isola di Rifiuti
		Fiction is my ideal form because a character, even a stand-in for me, occupies a dramatic moment, wants one thing rather than another, serves the master narration.
		In great fiction the language is not only satisfying in itself, but it also fulfils larger purposes of design: it is sculptural, in the round, gestural.
		The poet has a vested interest in commercial fiction.” One needs, after all, a pretext for any oppositional practice, which is, too often, the shelter of the epigone, which is to say, most everybody—fons et origo once-in-a-blue-moon self-starter genius aside.
	isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com /2006_07_01_isola-di-rifiuti_archive.html (12384 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Concomitantly, fiction, specifically the police procedural genre, is used as a powerful communicator of sense of place.
		If true for fiction in general, this is even more true for mysteries, when the need for entertainment often challenges the reader to read insatiably to deduce the solution of the mystery before it is revealed by the author.
		Seldom sedate, but always escapist, the police procedural, as with all detective fiction, requires the reader to think, to match wits with those of the investigator in the narrative, and to participate in the investigation.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exhaupla.html (2877 words)

	Cop Story - New York Times
		What he did in the next 49 was equally inspired: he allowed this fictional world he had created to evolve organically, like a real police precinct in a real city.
		For the most part, the stories that constitute the chapters in this ''big book'' are sturdy enough to stand on their own, but the real achievement is how McBain has managed to sustain the continuity of the series for nearly half a century without compromising his formula or sacrificing its freshness.
		Meanwhile, in a part of the city that another policeman, Fat Ollie Weeks, snidely refers to as ''Zimbabwe West,'' a young fl prostitute is stabbed to death after being knocked out by the same designer drug.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E5DA133DF933A05752C0A9669C8B63 (700 words)

	Bleeker Books - Fat Ollie's Book
		But just as Isola is rocked by the murder of a mayoral candidate, the only copy of Ollie's manuscript is stolen -- and an all-too-real adventure begins as a thief follows Ollie's fictional blueprint to find a $2 million cache of nonexistent diamonds.
		The mystery involves the shooting death of a city councilmen who was about to declare for mayor and the theft of the novel that Fat Ollie had just finished.
		Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series, set in the fictional city of Isola, is now over 50 books strong with the detectives from the precinct that bears the series title all making regular appearances.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Books/Titles/Book.asp?ID=1335 (2133 words)

	Just the Facts, Ma’am: How Crime Fiction Re-Invents Reality
		He says, “mystery fiction (fiction of any sort, I suppose) requires that the reader place a level of trust in the author.
		The stories he told Hall about the city’s past became the inspiration for a story that evokes in double exposure both modern day Miami and the city of the past on which it rests—and gave him a parallel plotline concerning the passions and greed that drove development in both eras.
		If detective fiction is a literature of escape, why would anyone want to be transported to such anxious locales?” She answers it this way: “While detective fiction deals with explosive cultural material, that sense of mastery reinforced by the assurance of solution, calms the recreational reader of the genre.
	homepages.gac.edu /~fister/JusttheFacts.html (3453 words)

	Ed McBain \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		He was born Salvatore A Lombino in New York City, but when he started writing, he was advised that a more Anglo-Saxon name would serve him better.
		By way of children's fiction, he graduated to crime fiction, and then in 1954, writing as Evan Hunter, he published his sixth novel, The Blackboard Jungle, based in part on his own experiences teaching in the South Bronx.
		Although most of the characters remain more or less the same, the city around them changes to reflect the world as McBain saw it, and as time went on, the tone became ever so slightly sour, increasingly pessimistic.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1523932,00.html (1189 words)

	BookReviewsPage
		But then, it never is in McBain's Isola - a fictional city that can seem as bleak as Metropolis at times.
		In contrast, Sara Paretsky's fictional private investigator, V.I. Warshawski, is as serious and dedicated as Kay Scapetta, yet is made far more likable, thanks to a concern for others that stems from genuine empathy instead of self-righteousness.
		Fairstein is Manhattan's Assistant District Attorney in charge of the Sex Crimes Unit and her fictional counterpart, Alexandra Cooper, holds a similar position.
	www.katymunger.com /BookReviews.html (6216 words)

	GOOD-BYE, McBAIN Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		In Fiddlers, Fat Ollie is dating an attractive cop and is obsessed with his prospects: "He was actively planning, in the darkest recesses of his primeval mind, the seduction of...
		Detective Bert Kling's interracial romance with a fl doctor, in progress for several books now, is on the rocks, and he finds himself in bed with another fl woman who is either a hooker or the world's sexiest librarian.
		McBain was a master, and his tales of the city are timeless.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20051002/ai_n15715157 (849 words)

	Tony Aspler: The Wine Guy
		After touring Isola Bella our group went to La Cambusa where Rosaria, the owner (she learned her English in Reading), conducted an olive oil, balsamic vinegar and wine tasting.
		I have visited the city many times and suggest to Gordon (who feels the same way) that we find a suitable wine bar and explore the Colli Fiorentini that way.
		After lunch the group had a guided walking tour of the city beginning at the Duomo and ending at a gelateria for great ice cream.
	www.tonyaspler.com /pub/articleview.asp?id=1072&s=5 (4940 words)

	How Ed McBain made his name. - By James Grady - Slate Magazine
		McBain chose cops to be the forces of his fiction because, as he said, "the last time a private eye solved a murder was never." His New York Times obituary credited Ed McBain with creating "the police procedural," a genre in which how cops do their job is a key element of the fiction.
		His characters faced their challenges in a fictional city called Isola, a metropolis that looked a lot like the author's beloved New York.
		In this city, things were happening all the time, all over the place, and you didn't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind.
	www.slate.com /id/2122426 (1335 words)

	List of fictional cities - Gurupedia
		Like fictional countries, most fictional cities either resemble a specific place or represent a broader archetype.
		Al-Ybi - city in the Klatchian desert in
		Leshp, city of the squids, temporary island in the Circle Sea, cause of a war between
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_fictional_cities.htm (2315 words)

	Amazon.com: The BIG BAD CITY (87th Precinct Mysteries): Books: Ed McBain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a city that stands in as a thinly veiled New York city, the 87th Precinct bustles with activity.
		In "The Big Bad City," a burglar dubbed The Cookie Boy by the press because he leaves chocolate cookies behind is on the loose; the man who killed Detective Cardella's father decides to wrap up loose ends by killing the Detective is on the prowl and a woman is found strangled in the park.
		The only reason I am being a little hard on McBain here is that one of his numerous Isola city crime novels melds into another with little to make any particular work stand out from the rest.
	www.amazon.com /BIG-CITY-87th-Precinct-Mysteries/dp/0684855127 (2395 words)

	Ed McBain
		fictionally in ways that would certainly find them thrown
		types of mystery fiction, the cases we read about are
		set in the fictional city of Isola, which is clearly, in most
	www.edmcbain.com /Newsdesk.asp?id=436 (702 words)

	~~ Fiona's World, v5 ~~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She write a series of books called the Outlander series, which is about a woman who lived during World War Two.
		This series is about a police precinct in a fictional city called Isola, which bares an uncanny resemblance to New York City.
		The books - there are about 30 - follow the lives of the detectives in the 87th precinct as they solve murders, bank robberies, kidnappings, disappearances and more crimes.
	fionasworld.50webs.org /books.html (443 words)

	Santa Clara University Alumni - Suggestions and Recommendations for La Dolce Vita in Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A fictional story of a young woman who comes to Florence in the ‘60s after the flooding of the Arno to help restore and rescue the artwork which was damaged.
		A collection of short fiction, memoirs, and essays written by women authors about Italy, organized geographically from northern Italy to Rome and on further south.
		A fictionalized account of Michelangelo’s life, focusing on Renaissance Florence, which may give participants in interesting backstory to ponder, and help them understand the history of the city.
	www.scu.edu /alumni/services/traveldetail.cfm (1956 words)

	Hark! Audio Book
		Appropriately enough, the setting for Hunter's most famous series of books is as fictional as his mystery writing alter ego.
		The 87th Precinct series takes place in Isola, a thinly veiled version of New York, the city he knew so well.
		The series became one of the first in the mystery genre to feature a cast of characters as the focus, rather than a singular protagonist, and to include themes such as violence, drug dealing, corruption, and the search for justice in a chaotic, brutal world.
	www.audioeditions.com /showbook.cfm?prtf=1&pcode=N5P676 (626 words)

	The Frumious Bandersnatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The video of the song is set for release and to kick it off Tamar is set to do a live performance on a boat cruising up the river near the city of Isola (which is McBain's fictional; name for New York City).
		While she is performing the song a trio of people come on the boat and kidnap her at gunpoint.
		Steve Carella takes the call for the City Police Department but there is some controversy over whether or not the FBI should be involved.
	www.jackiekcooper.com /BookReviews/Archive/TheFrumiousBandersnatch.htm (519 words)

	Alibris: Urban
		Iliana graduates from college and returns home to Brooklyn to her magnificently dysfunctional family, including a sister who is losing her mind, another sister who is being abused by her husband, and a third sister who can't be found.
		The paintings were done between 1940-1941 and tell the story of the journey of many African Americans who left the South during those years and set out for the northern, industrialized cities.
		Writing in the early 1960s, eminent critic and writer Pritchett captures the true character of this fascinating city, from pre-Roman origins to not long after World War II.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Urban/page/16 (1299 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shotgun An 87th Precinct Mystery: Books: Ed McBain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With Walter Damascus, a psychopath who likes his women well-off, well-built, and dead, loose on the city, the boys of the 87th Precinct must work overtime.
		The 87th Precinct in the fictional city of Isola is hopping...two murders in one day.
		The first, a married couple found dead in their apartment, unrecognizeable, two shotgun blasts to the face of each.
	www.amazon.ca /Shotgun-87th-Precinct-Mystery-McBain/dp/0446609730 (498 words)

	Steve's 50 Fictional Detectives
		The Nameless detective is never referred to by name, but appears to resemble the author --- he is Italian, his first name is Bill and collects pulp detective novels.
		In addition to over 25 "Nameless" books, Pronzini has collaborated with other novelists in books where the fictional detectives join forces to solve a crime; In Double, Pronzini collaborated with his wife, Marcia Muth Miller, the creator of Detective Sharon McCone.
		Named after an angel from The Book of Morman, Traveler lives in Salt Lake City and is often at odds with the Morman Church leadership.
	www.stevehillbluesband.com /tecs.html (924 words)

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