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Ed McBain

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Ed McBain


Born
in New York, The United States
October 15, 1926

Died
July 06, 2005

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Crime


"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952.

While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.

He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 126,759 ratings · 8,489 reviews · 706 distinct works • Similar authors
Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
3.83 avg rating — 8,647 ratings — published 1956 — 3 editions
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The Mugger (87th Precinct, #2)
3.89 avg rating — 4,930 ratings — published 1956 — 102 editions
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The Pusher (87th Precinct, #3)
3.94 avg rating — 4,070 ratings — published 1956 — 67 editions
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The Con Man (87th Precinct,...
3.91 avg rating — 3,875 ratings — published 1957 — 67 editions
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
3.92 avg rating — 3,117 ratings — published 1983 — 59 editions
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Killer's Payoff (87th Preci...
3.95 avg rating — 2,854 ratings — published 1958 — 61 editions
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Killer's Choice (87th Preci...
3.91 avg rating — 2,877 ratings — published 1957 — 77 editions
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Fuzz (87th Precinct, #22)
3.91 avg rating — 2,622 ratings — published 1968 — 37 editions
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Give the Boys a Great Big H...
3.91 avg rating — 2,561 ratings — published 1960 — 3 editions
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Lady Killer (87th Precinct,...
3.90 avg rating — 2,468 ratings — published 1958 — 66 editions
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“Any new corpses today?"
"None yet."
"Pity. I’m getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater
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“Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual,”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater
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“The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.”
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