Ed Mcbain Evan Hunter

Author : Erin E. MacDonald
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786489480

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Ed McBain/Evan Hunter by Erin E. MacDonald Pdf

One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle. When the Mystery Writers of America named Hunter a Grand Master, he gave the designation to his alter ego, Ed McBain, best known for his long-running police procedural series about the detectives of the 87th Precinct. This comprehensive companion provides detailed information about all of Evan Hunter's/Ed McBain's works, characters, and recurring themes. From police detective and crime stories to dramatic novels and films, this reference celebrates the vast body of literature of this versatile writer.

Author : Evan Hunter
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504043946

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Come Winter by Evan Hunter Pdf

A glamorous ski resort becomes the setting for unspeakable evil in this “chilling, fascinating novel” by the New York Times–bestselling author of Last Summer (Los Angeles Times). Sandy, David, and Peter met as bored teenagers vacationing with their parents on a small resort island. The horrific crime they committed five years ago bound them together forever, cursing their friendship in blood and setting them on a path toward nihilism and destruction. Now in their early twenties, the glamorous and sophisticated trio has come to an exclusive ski resort just days before Christmas to satisfy their appetite for danger and enjoy the physical company of the only human beings they can still tolerate: one another. But an interloper soon finds her way into their closed circle. Mary Margaret is no gullible innocent. She’s smart and mischievous and appears bent on tearing the friends apart. Will Sandy, Peter, and David keep their sinister ménage-à-trois intact, or have they finally met their match? On the steep and icy slopes of Semanee Peak, a dangerous game of cat and mouse comes to a shattering end. “An unforgettable exploration into the nature of evil,” Come Winter is the chilling sequel to Last Summer and a “brilliant . . . dazzling” portrait of young sociopaths at play (Burlington Free Press).

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : 87th Precinct (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 0340729058

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The Big Bad City by Ed McBain Pdf

The Squadroom of the 87th Precinct is under even more pressure than usual. There's the Cookie Boy, a burglar with a taste for chocolate chip cookies and violence; and a murdered woman with breast implants, who turns out to be a nun. Detective Carella has problems of his own, too.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783293629

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Cut Me In by Ed McBain Pdf

When a Man’s Partner is Killed, He’s Supposed to Do Something About It. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency – me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was missing...

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504039338

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Runaway by Ed McBain Pdf

A young black man is framed by the police for a murder he didn’t commit in this gritty New York crime story from the author of the 87th Precinct series. Johnny Lane is outside the Apollo when he sees Luis, and rage floods his veins. Every tough in Harlem knows that Luis tried to rape Johnny’s girl, and that means he has to die. Johnny comes out swinging, but Luis is wearing brass knuckles, and he almost kills Johnny before the fight gets broken up. A few weeks later, as a brutal winter settles over New York, Johnny is walking down the street when he hears the gunfire. Luis has been shot dead. Johnny runs without thinking, because it’s bad news for a black man to get caught near a corpse, but the cops catch up with him anyway. He didn’t shoot Luis, but he had a motive, and that’s good enough for the New York Police Department. Cornered, alone, and helpless, Johnny has no choice but to find the real killer—or spend the rest of his life on the run from the cops, his friends, and his girl. A hardboiled story of a friendless man hunted by the police, Runaway is vintage Ed McBain. It’s a story of life on the margins of a merciless city, from an author who knew the dark side of New York better than anyone.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0380699745

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Lightning by Ed McBain Pdf

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504039215

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A Matter of Conviction by Ed McBain Pdf

A racially charged murder pushes a mild-mannered district attorney to the brink in this gritty legal thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series. After an intense heat wave, storms threaten to blanket New York City, and three boys walk across town with knives in their pockets and murder on their minds. They’re tough kids in combat boots, crossing into Spanish Harlem to pick a fight. And when they see one of their intended victims, they surround him, draw their knives, and plunge their weapons into the poor boy’s gut. The attackers flee, and blood pours down the victim’s lifeless body, mingling with the sudden rain. But despite the showers, nothing will be able to extinguish the full-blown panic that threatens to set the city aflame. Prosecuting the case falls to Hank Bell, a Harlem-born district attorney with a solemn sense of civic duty. As the case threatens to unravel, Hank will be the only thing that stands between his city and blood-spattered anarchy. The inspiration for John Frankenheimer’s classic film The Young Savages, this is a hard-eyed look at a city on the edge of chaos, written by a man who understood urban crime better than anyone else: legendary crime writer Ed McBain.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671775476

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Cop Hater by Ed McBain Pdf

"The murder of three detectives in quick succession in the 87th Precinct leads Detective Steve Carella on a search through the city's underside and ultimately into the murderer's sights"--NoveList.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : 87th Precinct
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612181686

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Jigsaw by Ed McBain Pdf

A piece of a torn picture in the hand of a dead man puts the detectives of the 87th Precinct on the trail of $750,000 missing from a six-year-old bank heist. "Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's grand, ongoing accomplishment." --Entertainment Weekly "McBain has the ability to make every character believable--which few writers these days can do." --Associated Press

Author : Evan Hunter
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504043939

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The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter Pdf

The “shocking” and “suspense-packed” bestseller about one teacher’s stand against student violence, and the basis for the Academy Award–nominated film (The New York Times Book Review). After serving his country in World War II, Richard Dadier decides to become an English teacher—and for the sin of wanting to make a difference, he’s hired at North Manual Trades High School. A tough vocational school in the East Bronx, Manual Trades is home to angry, unruly teenagers exiled from New York City’s regular public schools. On his first day, Dadier endures relentless mockery and ridicule and makes an enemy of the student body by rescuing a female colleague from a vicious attack. His fellow educators are bitter, disillusioned, and too afraid of their pupils to risk turning their backs on them in the classroom. But Dadier refuses to give up without a fight. Over the course of the semester, he tries again and again to break through the wall of hatred and scorn and win his students’ respect. The more he learns about their difficult circumstances, the more convinced he becomes that a good teacher can make a difference in their lives. His idealism will be put to the ultimate test, however, when a long-simmering power struggle with his most intimidating student explodes into a violent schoolroom showdown. The basis for the blockbuster film starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier, Evan Hunter’s The Blackboard Jungle is a brutal, unflinching look at the dark side of American education and an early masterpiece from the author who went on to write the gritty 87th Precinct series as Ed McBain. Drawn from Hunter’s own experiences as a New York City schoolteacher, it is a “nightmarish but authentic” drama that packs a knockout punch (Time).

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380703831

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Tricks by Ed McBain Pdf

The Halloween tricks began with the bloody upper torso of a human body, and suddenly Detective Steve Carella was in the midst of evil involving a psychopath and a gang of children with loaded shotguns.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 0749006153

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Running from Legs and Other Stories by Ed McBain Pdf

From downtown police stations to Caribbean beach hotels, Ed McBain takes us with ease and style through the broad spectrum of the human condition, with the help of some memorable characters. Originally published: Unity, Me.: Five Star, 2000.

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598844467

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100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors by Bernard A. Drew Pdf

Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authors—without any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786216050

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The Last Best Hope by Ed McBain Pdf

Matthew Hope's client wants him to find her husband, Jack. A simple enough job, until a corpse with Jack's ID turns up on the beach.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380700298

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Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain Pdf

It all got terribly confusing when the Deaf Man put in an appearance.... ...and the criminal mastermind is making his presence known by the dead bodies that are turning up around Isola. Then there are the notes -- with cryptic patterns including eight black horses dancing across a page -- that look like they mean nothing. But Detectives Kling, Carella, and Meyer know that with the Deaf Man, the seemingly meaningless always means something. Something bad. And as late fall hurtles toward Christmas, the Deaf Man is counting down the days, luring the cops of the 87th Precinct with a series of taunting clues -- all leading toward a horrifying act of revenge orchestrated by a psychopathic killer.