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Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre.
Jul 7, 2005 · Evan Hunter, the author who as Ed McBain virtually invented the American police procedural with his gritty 87th Precinct series featuring an entire detective squad as its hero, died...
Evan Hunter (born October 15, 1926, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 6, 2005, Weston, Connecticut) was a prolific American writer of best-selling fiction, of which more than 50 books are crime stories published under the pseudonym Ed McBain.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Evan Hunter, a prolific writer whose gritty Ed McBain 87th Precinct detective series pioneered the police-procedural genre and laid the groundwork for a generation of TV cop...
The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories by American author Ed McBain (a writing pseudonym of Evan Hunter). McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions.
May 29, 2018 · Evan Hunter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, October 15, 1926, in New York, NY; died of cancer, July 6, 2005, in Weston, CT. Author. Evan Hunter wrote more than 50 crime-fiction novels under the pen name Ed McBain, scoring numerous bestsellers as well as a place in American letters as the creator of a new literary form.
Jul 7, 2005 · Evan Hunter, who wrote the Ed McBain 87th Precinct detective series as well as novels including "The Blackboard Jungle," died of cancer of the larynx, his agent said. He was 78.
