"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
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Ed McBain and Evan Hunter (birth name Salvatore A. Lombino) October 15, 1926 to July 7, 2005 Born in New York City & Died in Weston, Connecticut Ed McBain was the greatest writer of police procedurals and he invented the genre as it is now practiced. Evan Hunter was overshadowed by his alter ego's success, but shouldn't have been. As McBain or Hunter the man was brilliant.
Quote "That's like Michelangelo watching an apprentice paint in the white of an eye." Evan Hunter on why he didn't read his so-called competitors.
Off-Site Resource The Official Ed McBain And Evan Hunter Website
Bibliography Writing as Ed McBain THE 87TH PRECINCT NOVELS Cop Hater - 1956 The Mugger - 1956 The Pusher - 1956 The Con Man - 1957 Killer's Choice - 1957 Killer's Payoff - 1958 Lady Killer - 1958 Killer's Wedge - 1959 'Til Death - 1959 King's Ransom - 1959 Give The Boys A Great Big Hand - 1960 The Heckler - 1960 See Them Die - 1960 Lady, Lady, I Did It - 1961 The Empty Hours - 1962 Like Love - 1962 Ten Plus One - 1963 Ax - 1964 He Who Hesitates - 1964 Doll - 1965 Eighty Million Eyes - 1966 Fuzz - 1968 Shotgun - 1969 Jigsaw - 1970 Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here! - 1971 Sadie When She Died - 1972 Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man - 1972 Hail To the Chief - 1973 Bread - 1974 Blood Relatives - 1975 So Long As You Both Shall Live - 1976 Long Time No See - 1977 Calypso - 1979 Ghosts - 1980 Heat - 1981 Ice - 1983 Lightning - 1984 Eight Black Horses - 1985 Poison - 1987 Tricks - 1987 Lullaby - 1989 Vespers - 1990 Widows - 1991 Kiss - 1992 Mischief - 1993 And All Through the House - 1994 Romance - 1995 Nocturne - 1997 The Big Bad City - 1999 The Last Dance - 2000 Candyland - 2001 (by McBain & Hunter) Money, Money, Money - 2001 Fat Ollie's Book - 2002 The Frumious Bandersnatch - 2004 Hark! - 2004 Fiddler - 2005
The Matthew Hope Novels Goldilocks - 1977 Rumpelstiltskin - 1981 Beauty and the Beast - 1982 Jack and the Beanstalk - 1984 Snow White and Rose Red - 1985 Cinderella - 1986 Puss In Boots - 1987 The House That Jack Built - 1988 Three Blind Mice - 1990 Mary, Mary - 1992 There was a Little Girl - 1994 Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear - 1996 The Last Best Hope - 1998
Non-series Ed McBain Novels The April Robin Murders (with Craig Rice) - 1958 The Sentries - 1965 Death of a Nurse - 1968 Where There's Smoke - 1975 Guns - 1976 Another Part of the City - 1986 Downtown - 1991 Driving Lessons - 2000 Candyland - 2001 (co-written with Evan Hunter) Learning to Kill - 2005
Writing as Evan Hunter Novels The Evil Sleep! - 1952 Don't Crowd Me - 1953 The Blackboard Jungle - 1954 Second Ending - 1956 Strangers When We Meet - 1958 A Matter of Conviction - 1959 Mothers and Daughters - 1961 Buddwing - 1964 The Paper Dragon - 1966 A Horse's Head - 1967 Last Summer - 1968 Sons - 1969 Nobody Knew They Were There - 1971 Every Little Crook and Nanny - 1972 Come Winter - 1973 Streets Of Gold - 1974 The Chisholms: A Novel of the Journey West - 1976 Walk Proud - 1979 Love, Dad - 1981 Far from the Sea - 1983 Lizzie - 1984 Criminal Conversation - 1994 Privileged Conversation - 1996 Candyland - 2001 (by Hunter & McBain) The Moment She Was Gone - 2002
Nonfiction Me and Hitch - 1997 Let's Talk: A Story of Cancer and Love - 2005
Children's Books Find the Feathered Serpent - 1952 The Remarkable Harry - 1959 The Wonderful Button - 1961 Me and Mr. Stenner - 1976
Short Story Collections (both Hunter and McBain) As Evan Hunter The Jungle Kids - 1956 The Last Spin and Other Stories - 1960 Happy New Year, Herbie - 1963 The Easter Man (a Play) and Six Stories - 1972
As Ed McBain The McBain Brief - 1982 McBain's Ladies: The Women Of the 87th - 1988 McBain's Ladies, Too - 1989
Writing as both Evan Hunter and Ed McBain Running from Legs - 2000 Barking at Butterflies - 2000
Books written under other Pseudonyms Writing as Richard Marsten Rocket to Luna - 1953 Danger: Dinosaurs! - 1953 Runaway Black - 1954 Murder In The Navy - 1955 (AKA Death Of A Nurse by Ed McBain) - 1968 Vanishing Ladies - 1957 The Spiked Heel - 1957 Even the Wicked - 1958 Big Man - 1959
Writing as Hunt Collins Cut Me In - 1954 Tomorrow and Tomorrow - 1956
Writing as Curt Cannon I Like 'Em Tough (short stories) - 1958 I'm Cannon - For Hire - 1958
Writing as John Abbot Scimitar - 1992
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"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
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