Ed McBain

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Ed McBain (* 15. October 1926 in New York ; † 6. July 2005 in Weston , Connecticut ; actually Salvatore Lombino ) was a US -American writer and screenwriter .

Life

Born as Salvatore Lombino, he officially registered his original stage name Evan Hunter in 1952. As Evan Hunter, he published his first novel in 1952 and, two years later, his first bestseller, Saat der Demokratie, which was also made into a film. He also wrote screenplays, including for Alfred Hitchcock's Die Vögel . In 1956 he took the pseudonym Ed McBain and began his series around the 87th Police Station, which was filmed several times. In addition, he also has under the names Hunt Collins , Ezra Hannon , Richard Marsten , John Abbot and Curt Cannon Novels published.

Ed McBain was married three times. From his first marriage (from 1949) he had three children. His second marriage in 1973 also ended in divorce. He lived with his third wife, Dragica Dimitrijevic, whom he married in 1997, until his death.

Ed McBain spent the last years of his life in Weston, Connecticut, and died there on July 6, 2005 of throat cancer .

Awards

In recognition of his literary life's work:

bibliography

Crime novels

87th Precinct / 87th Police Station (as Ed McBain)
  • Cop Hater (1956) - Police officers live dangerously / Bloody asphalt
  • The Mugger (1956) - Clifford thanks them
  • The Pusher (1956) - The Pusher / The white hand of death / White snow for fixers
  • The Con Man (1957) - Late girls die earlier / poison of late love
  • Killer's Choice (1957) - The Ten Faces of Annie Boone
  • Killer's Payoff (1958) - Killer's pay / I, the blackmailer
  • Killer's Wedge (1958) - Naked is the best mask (The anonymous angel / letter)
  • Lady Killer (1958) - The Annoying Widow / Visit from Hell
  • 'til Death (1959) - Black Wedding / Till Death Do You Part
  • King's Ransomware (1959) - King's ransom
  • Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960) - A big hand in greeting
  • The Heckler (1960) - April, April!
  • See Them Die (1960) - Hot Sunday morning
  • Lady, Lady, I Did It (1960) - It was me, it was me
  • The Empty Hours (1960, Stories: "The Empty Hours", "Storm", "J") - Ullstein-Kriminalmagazine Vol. 3 and Vol. 25
  • Like Love (1962) - Suicide comes before the fall
  • Ten Plus One (1963) - Nine in the crosshairs
  • Ax (1963) - The ax
  • He Who Hesitates (1965) - The Innocent Lamb
  • Doll (1965) - doll
  • Eighty Million Eyes (1966) - 80 million eyes ago
  • Fuzz (1968) - The Claws
  • Shotgun (1968) - shot and horn
  • Jigsaw (1970) - Snap Shot
  • Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here (1971) - Naked out the window
  • Sadie, When She Died (1972) - Sadie at the last moment
  • Lets Hear It for the Deaf Man (1961) - Dead Ear on the Phone
  • Hail to the Chief (1973) - Drive slowly over the mass grave
  • Bread (1974) - Anything for Money
  • Blood Relatives (1975) - The Blood Sisters
  • So Long As You Both Shall Live (1976) - As long as you two are still alive
  • Long Time No See (1977) - Long time no see
  • Calypso (1979) - Calypso / Shots in the Rain
  • Ghosts (1980) - ghosts of murder
  • Heat (1981) - Heat
  • Ice (1983) - ice / ice cold to the heart
  • Lightning (1984) - The Last Sprint / The lightning strikes twice
  • Eight Black Horses (1985) - Eight black horses
  • Poison (1987) - Pure Poison
  • Tricks (1987) - tricked
  • Lullaby (1989) - die, child, die
  • Vespers (1989) - Priest, Death and the Devil
  • Widows (1991) - Black Widows
  • Kiss (1992) - the kiss of death
  • Mischief (1993) - Graffiti
  • And All Through the House (1994)
  • Romance (1995) - Romance
  • Nocturne (1997) - Long Dark Night
  • The Big Bad City (1998) - Big Bad City
  • The Last Dance (1999) - Dead Man's Song
  • Money, Money, Money (2001)
  • Fat Ollie's Book (2003)
  • The Frumious Bandersnatch (2004)
  • Hark! (2004)
  • Fiddlers (2005)
McBain's Ladies / The Women of the 87th Precinct (as Ed McBain)
  • McBain's Ladies: The Women of the 87th (1988)
  • McBain's Ladies Too (1989)
Matthew Hope series (as Ed McBain)
  • Goldilocks (1977) - It stays in the family
  • Rumpelstiltskin (1981) - Rumpelstiltskin
  • Beauty and the beast (1982) - The beauty and the monster
  • Jack and the Beanstalk (1984) - Death in the Bean Field
  • Snow White and Rose Red (1985) - Snow White and Rose Dead
  • Cinderella (1986) - Cinderella
  • Puss in boots (1987) - Puss in Boots
  • The house that Jack built (1988) - This is the house that Jack built
  • Three blind mice (1990) - Three blind mice
  • Mary, Mary (1992) - Mary, Mary
  • There was a little girl (1994) - Once upon a time there was a little girl
  • Gladly the cross-eyed bear (1996) - The cross-eyed bear
  • The last best hope (1998)
more thrillers than Ed McBain
  • The April Robin murders (together with Craig Rice) (1958) - The April Robin case / The secret of April Robin / Murder in the dream factory
  • The sentries (1965) - Desperados of freedom
  • Where there's smoke (1975) - assassination attempt on a corpse
  • Guns (1976) - Big guns for little gangsters
  • Another part of the city (1986) - Alarm in Chinatown
  • Downtown (1991) - Nice presents
  • Driving lessons (2000) - driving lesson
  • Alice in Jeopardy (2005)
  • Learning to kill (2005)
as Evan Hunter
  • The evil sleep! (1952) - Sleep of Oblivion
  • Don't crowd me / Paradise Party (1953) - Death never goes on vacation
  • The blackboard jungle (1954) - the seeds of violence
  • Second ending (1956) - But woe to the individual
  • Strangers when we meet (1958) - Strangers when we meet
  • A matter of conviction / The young savages (1959) - Harlem fever / Law for Rafael Morrez
  • Mothers and daughters (1961) - mothers and daughters
  • Buddwing (1964) - shock
  • The paper-dragon (1966) - The bestseller
  • A horses's head (1967) - The $ 500,000 Thing
  • Last summer (1968) - That was last summer
  • Sons (1969) - sons
  • Nobody knew they were there (1971) - By an anonymous hand
  • Every little crook and Nanny (1972) - Twice is once too many
  • Come winter (1973)
  • Streets of gold (1974)
  • The Chisholms: A novel of the journey west (1976) - Freedom lies westward
  • Walk proud / gangs! (1979) - Violence and Pride
  • Love, Dad (1981) - Love, your daddy
  • Far from the sea (1983) - Far from the sea
  • Lizzie (1984)
  • Criminal conversation (1994) - Fatal Evidence
  • Privileged conversation (1996) - The cat dancer
  • Candyland. A two part novel (Evan Hunter & Ed McBain) (2001)
  • The moment she was gone (2002)
as Ezra Hannon
  • Doors (1975)
as Richard Marsten
  • Runaway Black (1954) - Run for your life, nigger!
  • Murder in the navy / Death of a nurse (1955) - Strangler on board / The ship of dead eyes / A dead person on board / Murder on board
  • Vanishing ladies (1957) - hide and seek with ladies / My girl is gone, said Colby
  • The spiked heel (1957)
  • Even the wicked (1958) - Curiosity turns murderer / warning out of nowhere
  • Big man (1959) - Ice cold over corpses / A cat learns to kill
as Curt Cannon
  • I like 'em tough (1958, short stories)
  • The gutter and the grave / I'm Cannon, for hire (1958) - The gutter and the grave
as Hunt Collins
  • Cut me in (1954)
  • Tomorrow's world / Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1956)
as John Abbott
  • Scimitar (1992)

Science fiction

Novels
  • Find the Feathered Serpent (1952)
  • Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953, as Richard Marsten)
  • Rocket to Luna (1953, as Richard Marsten) - rocket to the moon
  • Tomorrow's World (1956, also as Tomorrow and Tomorrow , as Hunt Collins)
  • The Robot Lovers (1966, as Dean Hudson)
  • Nobody Knew They Were There (1971)
collection
  • The Last Spin (1960)
Short stories
  • Reaching for the Moon (1951, as SA Lombino)
  • Silent Partner (1952, as SA Lombino)
  • The Tinkerer (1952, as SA Lombino)
  • Welcome Martians! (1952, as SA Lombino)
  • Small Fry (1952, as Hunt Collins)
  • A Planet Named Joe (1952, as SA Lombino)
  • The Guinea Pigs (1953, as SA Lombino)
  • Forest of the Night (1953, as DA Addams)
  • Woman's World (1953, as Ted Taine)
  • Robert (1953)
  • Dealer's Choice (1953, as SA Lombino)
  • What Price Venus? (1953, also as Tales of Tomorrow , 1996)
  • Outside in the Sand (1953) - The Mars monster
  • First Captive (1953)
  • Million Dollar Maybe (1953)
  • The Miracle of Dan O'Shaughnessy (1954)
  • Malice in Wonderland (1954)
  • The Plagiarist from Rigel IV (1954)
  • Moon Mad (1954)
  • End as a Robot (1954, as Richard Marsten)
  • Under Observation (1954)
  • Terwilliger and the War Machine (1954)
  • Dream Damsel (1954)
  • The Scarlet King (1954)
  • The Fallen Angel (1955)
  • Inferiority Complex (1955)
  • The Big Noise (1956)
  • Just for Kicks (1958, as Richard Marsten)
  • Merely Hate (2005, as Ed McBain)

Filmography

script
Literary template
  • 1955: The Blackboard Jungle ( The blackboard jungle )
  • 1958: police haters ( cop hater )
  • 1960: The Wild Ones ( The young savages ), based on the novel A Matter of Conviction
  • 1963: Between Heaven and Hell ( Tengoku to jigoku ), based on the novel King's Ransom
  • 1966: Face without a name ( Mister Buddwing ), based on the novel Buddwing
  • 1969: Petting ( Last Summer )
  • 1971: Nine in the crosshairs ( Sans mobile apparent ), based on the novel of the same name
  • 1972: A rogue Hazzard ( Every little crook and nanny )
  • 1977: blood relatives
  • 1994: Columbo : Two corpses and Columbo in the leather jacket ( undercover )
  • 1995: Race with a Murderer ( Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning )
  • 1996: Ed McBain - Death of a Dancer ( Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice )
  • 1998: Ed McBain - The Decoy ( Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave )
  • 2001: Bloody Evidence - Playing with Death ( Three Blind Mice )
Radio plays

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME McBain, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salvatore Lombino (maiden name); Evan Hunter (real name); Hunt Collins (pseudonym); Ezra Hannon (pseudonym); Richard Marsten (pseudonym); John Abbot (pseudonym); Curt Cannon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2005
Place of death Weston , Connecticut , USA