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Stories
Harcourt
July 2006
On Sale: July 3, 2006
496 pages
ISBN: 0151012229
EAN: 9780151012220
Hardcover
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Fiction | Mystery | Mystery Private Eye
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a
hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of
his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of
them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt
and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. They
were written by Evan Hunter (McBain's legal name as of
1952), Richard Marsten (a pseudonym derived from the names
of his three sons), or Hunt Collins (in honor of his alma
mater, Hunter College). Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are
private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent
bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the
stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and
that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct
novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells how and
why he wrote these stories that were the start of his
legendary career.
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