LEARNING TO KILL - Stories
by McBain, Ed (also writes as Evan Hunter)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida: Harcourt - An Otto Penzler Book, 2006. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 364 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat, uncreased but slightly faded spine; no interior markings. These stories were some of the earliest written by McBain and they were written under an assortment of names, including Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten and Hunt Collins. He created them while working as an editor in the Scott Meredith Literary agency. This story collection contains: First Offense; Kid Kill; See Him Die; The Molested; Carrera's Woman; Dummy; Good and Dead; Death Flight; Kiss Me Dudley; Small Homicide; Still Life; Accident Report; Chinese Puzzle; The Big Day; Runaway; Downpour; Eye Witness; Every Morning; The Innocent One; Chalk; Association Test; Bedbug; The Merry Merry Christmas; On the Sidewalk Bleeding; and The Last Spin; followed by an afterword from Ed McBain and a bibliography..
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 216545
- Title
- LEARNING TO KILL - Stories
- Author
- McBain, Ed (also writes as Evan Hunter)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt - An Otto Penzler Book
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- 87th precinct; matthew hope;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery and Detective;
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W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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