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4 unusual facts about Ed McBain


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# "Längesen vi sågs" Long Time No See (Title of an Ed McBain Novel), February 1998

Ed McBain

NBC ran a police drama also called 87th Precinct during the 1961–62 season based on McBain's work.

In the process of adapting Winston Graham's novel Marnie for Hitchcock, Hunter and the director disagreed on the rape scene, and the writer was sacked.

McBain

Ed McBain (1926–2005), American author and screenwriter


Eugene Izzi

Bantam provided a substantial advance, expecting the title to rank Izzi alongside contemporaries like Elmore Leonard, Tony Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, and Ed McBain.

WJDB-FM

WJDB is name-checked as the "one good station" in the area in the mystery short story "Poachers" by Tom Franklin as published in The Best American Mystery Stories 1999, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain.


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