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  <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Pseudonym of [author:Evan Hunter] 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.

Lombino 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, Lombino returned to New York and studied at Hunter College, majoring in English, with minors in dramatics and education. He published a weekly column in the Hunter College newspaper as &quot;S.A. Lombino&quot;.

While looking to start a career as a writer, Lombino took a variety of jobs, including 17 days as a teacher at Bronx Vocational High School in September 1950. This experience would later form the basis for his 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle.

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  <title><![CDATA[Ice (87th Precinct #36)]]></title>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Cop Hater (87th Precinct #1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (87th Precinct #27)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (87th Precinct #25)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Curt Cannon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fat Ollie's Book]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Frumious Bandersnatch (87th Precinct #53)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.47</average_rating>
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  <title><![CDATA[Money, Money, Money (87th Precinct #51)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eight Black Horses]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lady Killer (87th Precinct #8)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ed McBain]]></name>
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