Ed McBain's Books
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The Last DanceIn this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails...Read More -
Fat Ollie's BookAll at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea...But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden...Read More
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The Frumious BandersnatchIt should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso is young and beautiful, with the body and voice of an angel, and the...Read More
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The Big Bad CityThe first thing you need to know about this city is that it is big. It is difficult to explain to someone who has never seen it. You can fold his town...Read More
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Alice in Jeopardy"I have your children. Don't call the police, or they'll die." It's a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South...Read More
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Money, Money, MoneyIt is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and an...Read More
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AllVoices, April 11, 2013
...other mystery writers who write magical prose. For the police procedurals, my hero was Evan Hunter, writing as Ed McBain. When I read the 8th Precinct Series, I fell in love with this type of ensemble cast, and I can see that some of the modern police...
Flagpole, February 13, 2013
...pedantic and plodding of genres, but I’ve always found it fascinating. The master of the genre was Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle among others), whose long-running 87th Precinct series was a collection of veritable...
Times Higher Education Supplement, January 30, 2013
...last sentence might remind us, if it is some time since we read Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett or Ed McBain, that the policing of 20th-century Western capitalism has long been left either to the private sector or to very badly paid police forces....
Guardian.co.uk, January 18, 2013
...substantial start, we're having hard-boiled eggs for breakfast this January. Which means, as fans of Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain and hard-boiled detective fiction in general will not be surprised to hear, the topic for this month's challenge is crime and...
seattlepi.com, January 15, 2013
...the series. Characters in one novel may appear in minor, supporting roles in another. Nevertheless, like the late Ed McBain's 87th precinct novels, readers will be able to follow their favorite characters throughout the series as they marry, transfer, or...
Wicked Local Sharon, January 7, 2013
...A. I have. I often day dreamed of being the next Wambaugh or following in the footsteps of Ed McBain. It's a tough, crowded market. I may go retro and take a page from Mickey Spillaine's body of work and combine the fists and .45 of Mike...
AM New York, November 26, 2012
...run" flick, from the Edward Anderson novel. High and Low (1963): The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa adapted Ed McBain's "King's Ransom," about an executive who prepares to pay a ransom for his kidnapped son, then finds it's actually his...
Guardian.co.uk, January 18, 2013
...substantial start, we're having hard-boiled eggs for breakfast this January. Which means, as fans of Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain and hard-boiled detective fiction in general will not be surprised to hear, the topic for this month's challenge is crime and...
PJStar.com, January 16, 2013
...in Peoria. Midwest thrift stores are less picked-over than other parts of the country." (His best purchases? Ed McBain novels and sweaters). He doesn't mind the road: "I spend so much time in airports their prices are actually starting to make sense. If...
seattlepi.com, January 15, 2013
...the series. Characters in one novel may appear in minor, supporting roles in another. Nevertheless, like the late Ed McBain's 87th precinct novels, readers will be able to follow their favorite characters throughout the series as they marry, transfer, or...
Wicked Local North Andover, January 8, 2013
...A. I have. I often day dreamed of being the next Wambaugh or following in the footsteps of Ed McBain. It's a tough, crowded market. I may go retro and take a page from Mickey Spillaine's body of work and combine the fists and .45 of Mike...
MetroWest Daily News, January 7, 2013
...A. I have. I often day dreamed of being the next Wambaugh or following in the footsteps of Ed McBain. It's a tough, crowded market. I may go retro and take a page from Mickey Spillaine's body of work and combine the fists and .45 of Mike...
Wicked Local Norwell, January 7, 2013
...A. I have. I often day dreamed of being the next Wambaugh or following in the footsteps of Ed McBain. It's a tough, crowded market. I may go retro and take a page from Mickey Spillaine's body of work and combine the fists and .45 of Mike...
Brockton Enterprise, January 7, 2013
...A. I have. I often day dreamed of being the next Wambaugh or following in the footsteps of Ed McBain. It's a tough, crowded market. I may go retro and take a page from Mickey Spillaine's body of work and combine the fists and .45 of Mike...
