Ed McBain

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born

October 15, 1926 in New York, The United States

died

July 06, 2005

gender

male

website

http://www.edmcbain.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Ed McBain is a pseudonym of Evan Hunter, who was born and raised as Salvatore Lombino in New York City, living in East Harlem until the age of 12, at which point his family moved to the Bronx. He attended Olinville Junior High School, then Evander Childs High School, before winning an Art Students League scholarship. Later, he was admitted as an art student at Cooper Union.

Hunter served in the Navy in World War II, writing several short stories while serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. However, none of these stories were published until after he had established himself as an author in the 1950s.

After the war, Hunter returned to New York and studied at Hunter College, majoring in English, with minors in dramatics and education. He pub...more

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Books by Ed McBain

Average rating: 3.70 · 17,701 ratings · 986 reviews · 201 distinct works

	Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 770 ratings — published 1956 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Ice (87th Precinct, #36) 3.74 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Mugger 3.65 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1956 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man (87th Precinct, #27) 4.00 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Lady Killer 3.73 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1958 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Fat Ollie's Book (87th Precinct #52) 3.60 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here! (87th Precinct, #25) 3.85 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Kiss (87th Precinct #44) 3.70 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1992 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Money, Money, Money (87th Precinct) 3.74 avg rating — 331 ratings — 16 editions	My rating:
	Fuzz (87th Precinct, #22) 3.85 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1968 — 12 editions	My rating:

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Series by Ed McBain

87th Precinct (55 books)
by Ed McBain

3.72 avg rating — 13,864 ratings

Matthew Hope (14 books)
by Ed McBain

3.69 avg rating — 2,154 ratings

Quotes by Ed McBain

“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.”
― Ed McBain

tags: cinema , film , hard-boiled

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