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Jul 20 2005
Ed McBain, author of the 87th Precinct series, died recently from cancer. During his fifty-year career Hunter (born Salvatore Lombino) wrote over 100 novels and is credited with practically inventing the police-procedural with his 87th Precinct series.
He held the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, and received an Edgar Award nomination for his novel Money, Money, Money. In 1998, he was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series to the bestselling novels The Blackboard Jungle and Criminal Conversation, written under his own name, Evan Hunter.
His most recent Evan Hunter novel is The Moment She Was Gone. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He is also the author of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
A number of books are expected to be published posthumously including Fiddlers (an 87th Precinct story) in September 2005, and a short-story collection Learning To Kill in Spring 2006.
He is survived by his wife, Dragica.
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