| Learning to Kill: Stories Contributor(s): McBain, Ed (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156031477 ISBN-13: 9780156031479 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: PRAISE FOR ED MCBAIN "One of the most prolific and admired writers of crime fiction in the world . . . McBain could not write a bad line. He owned every inch of turf in his world, where the law worked because, for all their flaws, his characters cared about justice, and where the moral order prevailed because good, for all its ambiguities, trumped evil."--"New York Daily News ""One of the greatest American crime writers . . . his tales of the city are timeless."--"The Washington Post ""McBain--if not the father, at least the godfather of the police procedural genre--created a body of work unique in American fiction both in quantity and in quality."--"San Diego Union Tribune " "McBain has a great approach, great attitude, terrific style, strong plots, excellent dialogue, sense of place, and sense of reality."--"Elmore Leonard " "Ed McBain is a master. He is a superior stylist, a spinner of artfully designed and sometimes macabre plots."--"Newsweek" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 7.06" W x 7.96" (0.87 lbs) 492 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 that time. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McBain, Ed: - ED McBAIN holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award and was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers' Association's highest award. The author of more than one hundred books, he lives in Connecticut. |