Authors and Creators
Ed McBain
(Né Salvatore Lombino. Also writes as Evan Hunter, Hunt Collins, Richard Marsten, Curt Cannon, Ezra Hannon; John Abbott)
(1926 -2005)

ED McBAIN was best known among crime fiction fans -- and rightfully so -- as the creator of the ground-breaking 87th Precinct police procedural series.

But he also managed to contribute to this genre ours with such notable gumshoes as Matt Cordell, Ben Smoke, Matthew Hope and Curt Cannon. He even wrote one of the all-time great spoofs of the genre, "Kiss Me Dudley," featuring Dudley Sledge, a private peeper who knows how to handle both women AND fish.

But his writings went far beyond just the crime genre. Under a slew of pseudonyms, he wrote horror, science fiction, melodrama, westerns and children's books. He wrote short stories, novels, television shows, films and even a couple of plays, and saw much of his work adapted to both TV and film. In fact, his first large-scale success was the film version of his novel The Blackboard Jungle.

Still, he'll always be remembered for creating the cops of the 87th Precinct, Isola's finest.

Why Isola, instead of New York City? Here's McBain's take on it, from The Craft of Crime, edited by John C. Carr, Houghton Mifflin, 1983:

"When I started writing the first book, I found I was on the phone with the cops every ten minutes to check something...I thought, 'This is getting to be a headache; I'm going to be spending more time talking to the cops than writing the books." And I said, 'I'm going to make this an imaginary city."

And hence Isola (it means "island" in Italian) was born. He goes on to say how much he enjoys making up "baloney" about Isola. It's obvious from the interview that McBain is serious about his work, but he never takes himself too seriously.

SHORT STORIES
Unless otherwise noted, I'm assuming these stories appeared as by Ed McBain.

• "Dead Freight" (February 1952, Famous Detective Stories; Guthrie Lamb; by Hunt Collins)
• "The Body Beautiful" (May 1952, Famous Detective Stories; Guthrie Lamb; by Hunt Collins)
• "Let the Gods Decide (Off-Trail Special)" (July 1952, Ten Story Sports; by Hunt Collins)
• "Eye Witness" (August 1952, Verdict; as Hunt Collins)
• "A-Hanging We Will Go!" (September 1952, Smashing Detective Stories; by Hunt Collins; AKA "Off-Trail Murder Mystery")
• "The Little Man" (October 1952, Famous Western; as Salvatore Lombino)
• "Die Hard" (January 1953, Manhunt; Matt Cordell/Curt Cannon)
• "Two" (February 1953, Bluebook; as Evan Hunter)
• "Attack" (February 1953, Manhunt; by Hunt Collins)
• "Carrea's Woman" (February 1953, Manhunt; by Richard Marsten)
• "Dead Men Don't Dream" (March 1953, Manhunt; Matt Cordell/Curt Cannon)
• "Murder Comes Easy" March 1953, Real; as Evan Hunter)
• "Against the Middle" (March 1953, Manhunt; by Richard Marsten)
• "Kid Kill" (April 1953, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "Robert" (April 1953, Manhunt; by Evan Hunter)
• "Now Die in It" (May 1953, Manhunt; Matt Cordell/Curt Cannon)
• "Small Homicide" (June 1953, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Killing at Triple Tree" (June 1953, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "One Down" (June 1953, Manhunt; by Hunt Collins)
• "The Follower" (July 1953, Manhunt; by Hunt Collins)
• "Good and Dead" (July 1953, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter; Matt Cordell/Curt Cannon)
• "The Smell of Blood" (July 1953, Private Eye; by Hunt Collins)
• "Still Life" (August 1953, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "Snowblind" (August 1953, Gunsmoke; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Innocent One" (August 1953, Manhunt; as Richard Marsten)
• "The Molested" (September 1953, Manhunt; as Hunt Collins)
• "The Death of Me" (September 1953, Manhunt; Matt Cordell/Curt Cannon)
• "Accident Report" (September 1953, Manhunt; as Richard Marsten)
• "Vicious Circle" (September 1953, Verdict; as Evan Hunter)
• "First Offense" (October 1953, Manhunt; by Evan Hunter)
• "I Killed Jeannie" (November 1953, Pursuit; as Evan Hunter; AKA "Chalk")
• "To Break the Wall" (1953, Discovery #2; AKA "The Blackboard Jungle"; as Evan Hunter)
• "Classification: Dead" (1953; by Richard Marsten)
• "One Down" (1953)
• "The Innocent One" (1953; also 1960, The Last Spin and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "What Price Venus?" (1953; as Evan Hunter)
• "Million Dollar Maybe" (December 1953/January 1954, Amazing; by Evan Hunter)
• "Deadlier Than the Mail" (February 1954, Manhunt; Matt Cordell/Curt Cannon)
• "...Or Leave It Alone" (May 1954, Manhunt; by Evan Hunter)
• "Association Test" (July 1954, Manhunt; as Hunt Collins)
• "Chinese Puzzle" (July 1954, Manhunt; as Richard Marsten)
• "Bedbug" (September 1954, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "Ticket to Death" (September 1954, Argosy; as Evan Hunter; AKA "Death Flight;" Milt Davis)
• "Every Morning" (September 1954, Manhunt; as Richard Marsten)
• "The Beatings" (October 1954, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "Dream Damsel" (1954, as Evan Hunter)
• "The Scarlet King" (1954, as Evan Hunter)
• "Kiss Me, Dudley" (January 1955, Manhunt; Dudley Sledge; as Hunt Cannon)
• "Hot" (February 1955, Manhunt)
• "The Big Dream" (June 1955, Real; as Evan Huntert; AKA "Dummy")
• "See Him Die" (July 1955, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Big Day" (September 1955, Manhunt; as Richard Marsten)
• "First Offense" (December 1955, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Scarlet King" (1955, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "Murder on the Keys" (February 1956, Argosy; as Richard Marsten; AKA "Downpour")
• "You Got to Love It" (May 1956, Nugget; as Evan Hunter)
• "Three" (September 1956, Short Stories; by Hunt Collins)
• "The Last Spin" (September 1956, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Jungle Kids" (1956, The Jungle Kids; by Evan Hunter)
• "Sucker" (1956, The Jungle Kids; by Evan Hunter)
• "The Follower" (1956, The Jungle Kids; by Evan Hunter)
• "The "H" Killer" (February 1957, Manhunt)
• "Wife and Best Friend" (March 1957, Escapade; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Iron Jungle" (March 1957, Argosy; as Evan Hunter)
• "On the Sidewalk Bleeding" (July 1957, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Merry, Merry Christmas" (December 1957, Manhunt; as Evan Hunter)
• "Pretty Eyes" (1957; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Prisoner" (1957; also1960, The Last Spin and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Just For Kicks" (1958, AHMM; as Richard Marsten)
• "Just for the Weekend" (April 1959, Escapade; as Evan Hunter)
• "Easy Money" (September 1960; EQMM ; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Empty Hours" (1960, Ed McBains Mystery Book #1; also1962, The Empty Hours; 87th Precinct)
• "The Girl with the Pretty Eyes" (1960, The Last Spin and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Escape" (1960, The Last Spin and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Silent Partner" (1960, The Last Spin and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Alive Again" (1960, The Last Spin and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Out of the Sun" (August 1961, Argosy (UK); as Evan Hunter)
• "J" (1961, The Empty Hours; 87th Precinct)
• "Murder on Ice" (November 1961, Argosy; 87th Precinct)
• "Storm" (1962; 87th Precinct)
• "Ten Plus One" (July 1963, Argosy)
• "Happy New Year, Herbie" (1963, Happy New Year, Herbie and Other Stories; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Final Yes" (1963, Happy New Year, Herbie ,and Other Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "S.P.Q.R." (1963, Happy New Year, Herbie and Other Stories; as Evan Hunter)
• "Uncle Jimbo's Marbles" (1963, Happy New Year, Herbie and Other Stories; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Tourists" (1963, Happy New Year, Herbie and Other Stories; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Fallen Angel" (June 1965, Ladies Home Journal; by Evan Hunter)
• "Eighty Million Eyes" (May 1966, EQMM; 87th Precinct)
• "A Horse's Head" (August 1967, Playboy; as Evan Hunter)
• "Beginnings" (July 1969, Playboy; as Evan Hunter)
• "Nightshade" (August 1970, EQMM; 87th Precinct)
• "Someone at the Door" (October 1971, EQMM; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Sardinian Incident" (October 1971, Playboy; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Interview" (1971, Playboy; as Evan Hunter)
• "The Sharers" (1971, Playboy; also The Easter Man and Six Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "The Intruder" (1972, The Easter Man and Six Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "The Movie Star" (1972, The Easter Man and Six Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "The Beheading" (1972, The Easter Man and Six Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "The Birthday Party," (1972, The Easter Man and Six Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Terminal Misunderstanding" (1972, Playboy; also The Easter Man and Six Stories; by Evan Hunter)
• "Sadie When She Died" (January 1973, AHMM; 87th Precinct)
• "Jazzing in A-Flat" (September 1974, Playboy; as Evan Hunter)
• "Catalyst" (June 1976, EQMM; AKA "What Happened to Annie Barnes?"; as Evan Hunter)
• "Consolation" (1976, Mystery Monthly)
• "What Happened to Annie Barnes?" (June 1976, EQMM; AKA"Catalyst"; as Evan Hunter)
• "Hot Cars" (1982)
• "And All Through the House" (Playboy; also released as Mystery Guild promotional item, 1984; 87th Precinct)
• "Reruns" (January 11-17, 1987, TV Guide; 87th Precinct)
• "Monsters" (1994, Murder for Halloween)
• "Running from Legs" (1996, Murder for Love)
• "Driving Lessons" (1998)
• "Where or When" (1998, The Best of the Best)
• "Barking at Butterflies" (1999, Murder and Obsession)
• "The Couple Next Door" (2000, Running From Legs and Other Stories; as Ed McBain)
• "The Victim" (2000, Running From Legs and Other Stories; as Ed McBain)
• "But You Know Us" (2000, Running From Legs and Other Stories; as Ed McBain)
• "I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus" (January 2001, EQMM)
• "Activity in the Flood Plain" (2001, The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology)
• "A Little Sitdown" (May 2003, EQMM)
• "Merely Hate" (2005, Transgressions; 87th Precinct)
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• "Kill Me, My Sweet" (by Richard Marsten)
• "Uncle Jim's Marbles"
• "Short Short Story"
• "The Movie Star"
• "Motel"
• "The Confession"
• "Eye Witness"
• "The Prisoner"
• "Skin Flick"

NOVELS
All books by Ed McBain, unless otherwise noted.
Not all of these are crime novels, and some of them may be alternative titles.

• The Big Fix (1952)
• Don't Crowd Me (1952; as Evan Hunter)
• The Evil Sleep (1952; as Evan Hunter)
• Rocket to Luna (1952, as Richard Marsten)
• The Evil Sleep! (1952; by Evan Hunter)
• Find The Feathered Serpent (1952; by Evan Hunter; children's book)
• Don't Crowd Me (1953; by Evan Hunter)
• Rocket To Luna (1953; as Richard Marsten)
• Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953; as Richard Marsten)
• Good Deal (1953; as Curt Cannon)
• The Spiked Heel (1957)
• The Blackboard Jungle (1954; by Evan Hunter)
• Runaway Black (1954; as Richard Marsten)
• Cut Me In (1954; as Hunt Collins; AKA "The Proposition")
• Murder In The Navy (1955; as Richard Marsten; later published as "Death Of A Nurse" by Ed McBain)
• Second Ending (1956; by Evan Hunter)
• Cop Hater (1956; 87th Precinct)
• The Mugger (1956; 87th Precinct)
• The Pusher (1956; 87th Precinct)
• Tomorrow And Tomorrow (1956; as Hunt Collins)
• Tomorrow's World (1956; as Hunt Collins)
• The Spiked Heel, 1956; as Richard Marsten)
• The Con Man (1957; 87th Precinct)
• Killer's Choice (1957; 87th Precinct)
• Vanishing Ladies (1957; as Richard Marsten)
• Strangers When We Meet (1958; as Evan Hunter)
• Sucker (1958; as Hunt Collins)
• Killer's Payoff (1958; 87th Precinct)
• Killer's Wedge (1958; 87th Precinct)
• Even The Wicked (1958; as Richard Marsten)
• I'm Cannon-For Hire (1958; Curt Cannon/Matt Cordell; as Curt Cannon; reprinted 2005 as "The Gutter and the Grave" by Ed McBain)....Buy this book
• Lady Killer (1958; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Strangers When We Meet (1958; by Evan Hunter)
• A Matter of Conviction (1959; by Evan Hunter)
• The April Robin Murders (1959; with Craig Rice)
• 'Till Death (1959; 87th Precinct)
• The Remarkable Harry (1959; by Evan Hunter; children's book)
• King's Ransom (1959; 87th Precinct)
• Big Man (1959; as Richard Marsten)
• Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960; 87th Precinct)
• The Heckler (1960; 87th Precinct)
• See Them Die (1960; 87th Precinct)
• Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961; 87th Precinct)
• Mothers And Daughters (1961; by Evan Hunter)
• The Wonderful Button (1961; by Evan Hunter; children's book)
• Buddwing (1961; as Evan Hunter)
• Like Love (1962; 87th Precinct)
• Ten Plus One (1963; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Ax (1964; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• He Who Hesitates (1965; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Doll (1965; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• The Sentries (1965)
• Eighty Million Eyes (1966; 87th Precinct). Buy this book
• The Paper Dragon (1966; as Evan Hunter)
• A Horse's Head (1967; by Evan Hunter)
• Last Summer (1968; by Evan Hunter)
• Fuzz (1968; 87th Precinct)
• Shotgun (1969; 87th Precinct)
• Sons (1969; by Evan Hunter)
• Jigsaw (1970; 87th Precinct)
• Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (1971; 87th Precinct)
• Nobody Knew They Were There (1971; by Evan Hunter)
• Every Little Crook And Nanny (1972; by Evan Hunter)
• Sadie When She Died (1972; 87th Precinct)
• Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (1973; 87th Precinct)
• Hail to the Chief (1973; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Come Winter (1973; by Evan Hunter)
• Streets Of Gold (1974; by Evan Hunter)
• Bread (1974; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Where There's Smoke (1975; Benjamin Smoke).. Buy this book
• Blood Relatives (1975; 87th Precinct)
• Doors (1975; Ezra Hannon)
• So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976; 87th Precinct)
• Guns (1976)
• The Chisholms: A Novel Of The Journey West (1976; by Evan Hunter)
• Me And Mr. Stenner (1976; by Evan Hunter; children's book)
• Long Time No See (1977; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Goldilocks (1978; Matthew Hope)
• Calypso (1979; 87th Precinct)
• Walk Proud (1979; by Evan Hunter)
• Ghosts (1980; 87th Precinct)
• Heat (1981; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Rumpelstiltskin (1981; Matthew Hope).. Buy this book
• Love, Dad (1981; by Evan Hunter)
• Beauty and the Beast (1982; Matthew Hope).. Buy this book
• Ice (1983; 87th Precinct).. Buy this book
• Far From The Sea (1983; by Evan Hunter)
• Lightning (1984; 87th Precinct)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1984; Matthew Hope)
• Lizzie (1984; by Evan Hunter; fictionalized account of Lizzie borden murders)
• Eight Black Horses (1985; 87th Precinct)
• Snow White and Rose Red (1985; Matthew Hope)
• Cinderella (1986; Matthew Hope)
• Another Part Of The City (1986)
• Poison (1987; 87th Precinct)
• Puss in Boots (1987; Matthew Hope)
• Tricks (1987; 87th Precinct)
• The House that Jack Built (1988; Matthew Hope)
• Lullaby (1989; 87th Precinct)
• Vespers (1990; 87th Precinct)
• Three Blind Mice (1990; Matthew Hope)
• Widows (1991; 87th Precinct)
• Downtown (1991)
• Scimitar (1992; as John Abbott)
• Kiss (1992; 87th Precinct)
• Mischief (1993; 87th Precinct). Buy this book
• Mary, Mary (1993; Matthew Hope).. Buy this book
• There was a Little Girl (1994; Matthew Hope).. Buy this book
• Criminal Conversation (1994; by Evan Hunter)
• Romance (1995; 87th Precinct). Buy this book
• Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996; Matthew Hope).. Buy this book
• Privileged Conversation (1996; by Evan Hunter)
• Nocturne (1997; 87th Precinct). Buy this book
• The Last Best Hope (1998; Matthew Hope).. Buy this book
• The Big Bad City (1999; 87th Precinct). Buy this book
• The Last Dance (1999; 87th Precinct). Buy this book
• Driving Lessons (1999; 87th Precinct)...Buy this book
• Candyland (2001; by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain) .Buy this book
• Money, Money, Money (2001; 87th Precinct) . Buy this book
• The Moment She Was Gone (2002; by Evan Hunter)
• Fat Ollie's Book (2003; 87th Precinct) ..Buy this book
• The Frumious Bandersnatch (2004; 87th Precinct) .. Buy this book
• Hark! (2004; 87th Precinct)...Buy this book
• Fiddlers (2005; 87th Precinct)...Buy this book

COLLECTIONS

• The Jungle Kids (1956; by Evan Hunter)
• I Like 'em Tough (1958; Curt Cannon; as Curt Cannon)
• The Last Spin and Other Stories (1960; by Evan Hunter)
• The Empty Hours (1962; 87th Precinct)
• Happy New Year, Herbie, and Other Stories (1963; by Evan Hunter)
• The Easter Man (a Play) And Six Stories (1972; by Evan Hunter)
• The McBain Brief (1982; 87th Precinct)
• McBain's Ladies: The Women Of The 87th (1988; 87th Precinct)
• McBain's Ladies, Too (1989; 87th Precinct)
• Running From Legs and Other Stories" (2000; by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain)
• Barking at Buttrflies and Other Stories (2000; by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain)...Buy this book
• Learning to Kill (2006) .. Buy this book
  Collection of 25 stories (including intros by McBain himself) from the fifties show the writer in fine form, spinning hard-boiled of alcoholic dicks and other losers, plus one of the all-time great P.I. parodies, "Kiss Me Dudley."

NON-FICTION

• Me and Hitch (1997; as Evan Hunter)
  Memoirs of his experience with director Alfed Hithcock

SELECTED ARTICLES

• "Philip Marlowe Is Back, and in Trouble" (October 15, 1989, The New York Times)
  McBain reviews Robert B. Parker's completion of Raymond Chandler's "Poodle Springs" and tags it "a rattling good mystery."
  
  
• "The Bad Cop in Everyone" (December 30, 1993, The New York Times; by Evan Hunter)
  In the wake of yet another report on police corruption in New York McBain (writing as Evan Hunter) defends the cops.
  
  
• "She Was Blond. She Was in Trouble. And She Paid 3 Cents a Word"
  (March 29, 1999, The New York Times)
  Part of the Times' "Writers on Writing" series. An illuminating glimpse at McBain's early days writing for the crime digests.
  
  
• "Writing Under an Assumed Name" (January 30, 2000, The New York Times)
  

FILMS

• BLACKBOARD JUNGLE...Buy this video
  (1955, MGM)
  101 minutes, black & white
  Based on the novel by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Richard Brooks
  Directed by Richard Brooks
  Produced by Pandro S. Berman
  Starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, John Hoyt, Richard Kiley, Emile Meyer, Warner Anderson, Basil Ruysdael, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Dan Terranova, Rafael Campos, Paul Mazursky, Horace McMahon, Jamie Farr, Danny Dennis
  Classic fifties JD flick, based on McBain's book. Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" supplies the rock'n'roll heart.
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• COP HATER
  (1958, Barbizon/United Artists)
  75 minutes
  Black & White
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain
  Screenplay by Henry Kane
  Directed by William Berke
  Starring Robert Loggia , Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Shirley Ballard, Russell Hardie, Hal Riddle, William Neff, Gene Miller, Vincent Gardenia and Jerry Orbach
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• THE MUGGER
  (1958, Barbizon/United Artists)
  74 minutes
  Black & White
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain
  Screenplay by Henry Kane
  Directed by William Berke
  Starring Kent Smith, Nan Martin, James Franciscus, Stefan Schnabel, Dick O'Neill, John Alexander, Arthur Storch, Bert Thorn, Albert Dannibal, Dolores Sutton, Beah Richards, George Maharis, Michael Conrad
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• THE PUSHER
  (1960)
  Black & White
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain
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• STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET
  (1960, Columbia)
  Screenplay by Evan Hunter
  Based on the novel by Evan Hunter
  Directed by Richard Quine
  Produced by Richard Quine
  Starring Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Virginia Bruce, Kent Smith, Helen Gallagher, John Bryant, Roberta Shore, Nancy Kovack, Carol Douglas
  Soap opera, apparently heavy on the suds.
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• THE YOUNG SAVAGES...Buy this video
  (1961, MGM/UA)
  Based on the novel "A Matter of Conviction" by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Edward Anhalt, J.P. Miller
  Directed by John Frankenheimer
  Produced by Harold Hecht
  Executive producer: Pat Duggan
  Starring Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Shelley Winters, Larry Gates, Telly Savalas, Pilar Seurat, Jody Fair, Roberta Shore, Milton Selzer, Robert Burton, David J. Stewart, Stanley Kristien
  DA investigates the case of three Italian teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican boy.
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• TENGOKU TO JIGOKU
  (English title: High and Low)
  AKA Heaven and Hell, The Ransom
  (1963)
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel "King's Ransom" by Ed McBain
  Directed by Akira Kurasawa
  Set in Tokyo
  Starring Toshiro Mifune
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• THE BIRDS...Buy this DVD...Buy this video
  (1963)
  Based on the story by Daphne DuMaurier
  Screenplay by Evan Hunter
  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Produced by Alfred Hitchcock
  Starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw, Ruth McDevitt, Lonny Chapman, Joe Mantell, Doodles Weaver, Malcolm Atterbury, John McGovern
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• MISTER BUDDWING
  AKA Woman Without a Face
  (1965, MGM)
  100 minutes, black & white
  Based on the novel "Buddwing" by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Dale Wasserman
  Directed by Delbert Mann(
  Produced by Douglas Laurence, Delbert Mann
  Starring James Garner, Jean Simmons, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury, George Voskovec, Jack Gilford, Joe Mantell, Raymond St. Jacques, Ken Lynch, Wolfgang Zilzer, Beeson Carroll
  Garner as an amnesiac wandering NYC, trying to figure out who he is.
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• LAST SUMMER
  (1969, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation)
  95 minutes
  Based on the novel by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Eleanor Perry
  Directed by Frank Perry
  Produced by Sidney Beckerman, Alfred W. Crown
  Starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns, Ernesto Gonzalez, Lou Gary, Andrew Krance, Wayne Mayer, Peter Turgeon, Lydia Wilen
  Teen angst, 60s style.
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• LE CRI DU CORMORAN, LE SOIR AU-DESSUS DES JONQUES
  AKA Cry of the Cormoran
  (1970, Gaumont)
  Based on the novel by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Michel Audiard
  Directed by Michel Audiard
  Starring Michel Serrault , Bernard Blier, Paul Meurisse, Marion Game, Françoise Giret, Sylvie Bréal, Nancy Holloway, Jean Carmet, Maurice Biraud, Carlos
  French caper flick.
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• WITHOUT APPARENT MOTIVE
  (1972)
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel Ten Plus One by Ed McBain
  Directed by Phillippe Labro
  Set on the Riviera
  Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda
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• EVERY LITTLE CROOK AND NANNY
  (1972, MGM)
  92 minutes
  Based on the novel by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Jonathan Axelrod, Cy Howard, Robert Klane
  Directed by Cy Howard
  Produced by Leonard J. Ackerman
  Starring Victor Mature, Lynn Redgrave, Paul Sand, Margaret Blye, Austin Pendleton, John Astin, Dom DeLuise, Louise Sorel, Phillip Graves, Lou Cutell, Leopoldo Trieste, Pat Morita, Phil Foster, Pat Harrington Jr., Esther Rolle
  Crooks kidnap a gangster's kid.
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• FUZZ.. .Buy this DVD
  (1972, United Artists)
  92 minutes
  Screenplay by Evan Hunter
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain
  Directed by Richard A. Colla
  Produced by Jack Farren
  Starring Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch, Peter Bonerz, Steve Ihnat, James McEachin, Bert Remsen
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• SANS MOBILE APPARENT
  AKA Senza movente, Without Apparent Motive
  (1972, Cinétel/Euro International Film/Président Films)
  100 minutes
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel "Ten Plus One" by Ed McBain
  Screenplay by Philippe Labro, Jacques Lanzmann
  Directed by Philippe Labro
  Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Sacha Distel, Carla Gravina, Paul Crauchet, Laura Antonelli,
  French/Italian co-production about an investigation into a string of murders comitted in Nice. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays the lead detective "Stéphane Carella." .
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• LES LIENS DU SANG.. .Buy this DVD
  AKA Blood Relatives
  (1978, Cinevideo-Filmel/Classic Film Industries)
  100 minutes
  Based on the 87th Precinct novel, Blood Relatives, by Ed McBain
  Screenplay by Sydney Banks, Claude Chabrol
  Directed by Claude Chabrol
  Starring Donald Sutherland, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Stéphane Audran, Walter Massey, Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Ian Ireland, Guy Hoffman, Marguerite Lemir, Gregory Giannis, Jan Chamberlain
  Canadian/French production with Donald Sutherland as Carella.
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• WALK PROUD
  (1979, Universal)
  102 minutes
  Based on the novel by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Evan Hunter
  Directed by Robert E. Collins
  Produced by Lawrence Turman
  Original music by Robby Benson, Don Peake
  Starring Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna, Trinidad Silva, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Lawrence Pressman, Domingo Ambriz, Brad Sullivan, Irene DeBari
  Star vehicle for Robby Benson as a young Chicano gang member. Yeah, right...

TELEVISION

• ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS
  (1955-65)
  Writers include: Evan Hunter
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• 87th PRECINCT
  (1961-62, NBC)
  Series
  30 60-minute black and white episodes
  Created by Ed McBain
  A Hubbell Robinson Production with MCA Television
  Starring Robert Lansing, Norman Fell, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott and Gena Rowlands
  
  
• IRONSIDE
  (1967-75, NBC)
  TV Series
  Writers include: Evan Hunter
  Starring Raymond Burr as Ironside
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• THE CHISHOLMS
  (1979, CBS)
  Mini-series
  720 min (4 episodes)
  Based on the novel "The Chisholms: A Novel Of The Journey West" by Evan Hunter
  Screenplay by Evan Hunter
  Directed by Mel Stuart
  Produced by Paul Freeman
  Executive producers: David Dortort, Alan Landsburg
  Original music by Elmer Bernstein
  Starring Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, Brian Kerwin, James Van Patten, Stacy Nelkin, Susan Swift, Charles Frank, Glynnis O'Connor, Sandra Griego, David Hayward, Billy Drago, Anthony Zerbe
  Pioneer family makes their way to Oregon from Virginia in the days of the American West.
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• THE LEGEND OF WALKS FAR WOMAN
  (1982)
  Made-for-TV movie
  2 hours
  Teleplay by Evan Hunter
  Directed by Mel Damski
  Produced by Tony Converse, Roger Gimbel
  Co-producer: Lee Levinson
  Starring Raquel Welch, Bradford Dillman, Nick Mancuso, Eloy Casados, George Clutesi, Nick Ramus, Branscombe Richmond
  Raquel Welch as Indian woman out to avenge her husband's death at the hands of the white man.
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• DREAM WEST
  (1986, CBS)
  Mini-series
  Based on the novel by David Nevin
  Teleplay by Evan Hunter
  Directed by Dick Lowry
  Produced by Hunt Lowry
  Starring Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, F. Murray Abraham, René Enríquez, Ben Johnson, Jerry Orbach, G.D. Spradlin, Rip Torn, Fritz Weaver, Anthony Zerbe, Claude Akins, John Anderson, Lee Bergere, Jeff East, Michael Ensign, Mel Ferrer, Cameron Mitchell, Noble Willingham, Bill Campbell, James Cromwell
  Ambitious mini-series purports to tell the tale of the west. Various TV stars play various historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Kit Carson and Jim Bridger..
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• COLUMBO
  (1989--, NBC)
  Starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo
  

• "No Time to Die" (1992; based on a story by Ed McBain)
• "Undercover" (1994; teleplay by Ed McBain)
  

• ED McBAIN'S 87th PRECINCT: LIGHTNING....Buy this video...Buy this DVD
  AKA "ED McBAIN'S 87th PRECINCT"
  (1995, NBC)
  Based on the novel by Ed McBain
  Teleplay by Mike Krohn and Daniel Levine
  Directed by Bruce Paltrow
  Starring Randy Quaid, Alex McArthur, Ving Rhames, Eddie Jones, Alan Blumenfeld, Ron Perkins, Steven Flynn, Johann Carlo, Tracy Middendorf, Mary-Joan Negro, Alison Moir, Steve Park, Deanne Bray, Richard Portnow, Dayton Callie, Christopher Darga, Marquita Terry, Juney Smith
  By most accounts, Quaid, a generally solid and reliable actor, is totally miscast in this one.
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• ED McBAIN'S 87th PRECINCT: ICE.. .Buy this DVD
  (February 18, 1996, NBC)
  2 hour made-for-television movie
  Based on the novel by Ed McBain
  Written by Larry Cohen
  Directed by Bradford May
  Starring Dale Midkiff, Joe Pantoliano, Paul Johansson, Andrea Parker , Michael Gross
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• ED McBAIN'S 87th PRECINCT: HEATWAVE... .Buy this DVD
  (1997, NBC)
  Based on the novel by Ed McBain
  Teleplay by Larry Cohen
  Directed by Douglas Barr
  Starring Dale Midkiff, Paul Ben-Victor, Paul Johansson, Erika Eleniak, Andrea Ferrell, Michael Gross
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• THREE BLIND MICE... .Buy this DVD
  (2001, Viacom Productions Inc.)
  Based on the novel by Ed McBain
  Teleplay by Anne Gerard and Adam Greenman
  Directed by Christopher Leitch
  Starring Brian Dennehy as MATTHEW HOPE
  Also starring Debrah Farentino, Rosalind Chao, John Doman, Glenn Plummer, Mary Stuart Masterson

ALSO AVAILBLE

• PROFILE OF A WRITER, VOL. 1: ED McBAIN/EVAN HUNTER...Buy this video
  (1993)
  
  
• CASE REOPENED: LIZZIE BORDEN WITH ED McBAIN...Buy this video
  (1999)
  McBain narrates documentary on infamous ax-happy murder.
  

PLAYS

• The Easter Man (1964)
• The Conjuror (1969)

RELATED LINKS

• The Official Ed McBain Web Site
  A much improved web site from the last time I reviewed it. In fact, it's one of the more fun author sites I've seen lately.
  
  
• An Officer Pays Tribute: R.I.P. Ed McBain
  Chicago cop and crime writer Jim Doherty's salute.

Respectfully submitted (and awaiting tons of corrections, I'm sure) by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Rudy for at least trying to keep me honest.