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 dramas, ...

NEW YORK - Novelist Evan Hunter, better known to many readers as the Ed McBain who wrote the 87th Precinct novels, has died of cancer at the age of 78, his agent said today. Hunter wrote more than 100 ...

Long before he became famous as Ed McBain, a young New Yorker named Salvatore Alberto Lombino spent five years hammering out crime stories and selling them for few cents a word to pulp magazines with ...

All Evan Hunter did before cancer killed him last week at age 78 was invent himself and alter American culture. Oh, and sell 100 million books. Self-determination for Evan (whom I knew professionally) ...

Evan Hunter, the prolific author who wrote the best-selling novel “The Blackboard Jungle” and, under the better-known pen name Ed McBain, wrote the enduringly popular 87th Precinct detective series, ...

It’s one of the oddest wrinkles of the publishing season, and Evan Hunter acknowledges that it’s something of a stunt, his co-authoring a novel with himself. But the newly published “Candyland” (Simon ...

Writer Evan Hunter, known to most fans as "Ed McBain," virtually created the police novel. He died in 2005. Learning to Kill is a new collection of McBain's early crime fiction. On NPR's Fresh Air, ...

US crime novelist Ed McBain has died of cancer at the age of 78. Although best known for his novels, McBain also produced plays and screenplays, such as that for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Born ...

Salvatore Lombino, who died on Wednesday aged 79, was a prolific American thriller writer best known under the pseudonyms Evan Hunter and Ed McBain, which was his personal preference. He was the ...

Only rarely does a literary character appear to be fashioned not just with words but with blood and bone — made so alive that you find yourself wondering what he's doing now, after you've read the ...