A wooden bookcase stuffed full of Ed McBain and Lawrence Block books.
Happy #worldbooksday 2026 everyone. Hope you’ve dressed up your kids as Roger Havilland.
#edmcbain #87thPrecinct
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(Not that I'm suggesting this led to his invention of the #87thPrecinct, because this adaptation was in 1957 when at least three books in the series were already available. It's possible that he selected the play for the group, becoming their chairman the following year.)
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✅📚 KILLER'S WEDGE by Ed McBain. #BookLife2025 #amreading #Noir #Crime #87thPrecinct #Thrillers #BookSky #ReadSky
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With our (FANFARE) podcast returning after a mere three and a half years and the topic being Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, I suppose we should run down the various adaptations of King's Ransom there has been over the years... it's not just Kurosawa, y'know!
#booksky #crimefiction #87thPrecinct
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HARK! It’s an #87thPrecinct podcast.
Yes for the first time in 42 months, we’re back behind the microphones to discuss Spike Lee’s adaptation of High and Low.
Has he got an eye on the #EdMcBain source material as well? Find out in our new episode. Share, please!
www.podchaser.com/podcasts/har...
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A couple of years ago I did an ED-VENT CALENDAR, for fans of the #87thPrecinct #EdMcBain / #EvanHunter.
If you want to play along this year (and you've got 17 doors to open straight away!) you can find it here:
app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=...
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Evan Hunter, in a newspaper photo from 1989, lounging wearing a striped shirt whilst sat on a bench by a brick wall.
From the Liverpool Daily Post, 25 September 1989.
Evan Hunter lounges in Liverpool whilst promoting 'Downtown'.
#edmcbain #crimefiction #books #evanhunter #87thPrecinct
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Listening to @scottaukerman.bsky.social’s “Scott Hasn’t Seen” pod about Dirty Harry with Shane Black was really interesting - great discussion about a great film and Black has just directed the new Parker film and also briefly mentioned good old #EdMcBain and the #87thPrecinct books.
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Give The Boys A Great Big Hand by Ed McBain (Salvatore Albert Lombino) (Penguin C2310, 1968, reprint). Cover Photo by John Claridge. #GiveTheBoysAGreatBigHand #EdMcBain #1960s #JohnClaridge #book #books #paperback #cover #87thPrecinct #crime #PenguinBook #PenguinBooks
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The answer is that is the 1964 film 恐怖の時間 AKA Fright Time or Time of Fear, adapted from #EdMcBain #87thPrecinct story KILLER'S WEDGE.
Directed by Katsumi Iwanai (岩内克己) this was a Toho film, the year after Kurosawa's High and Low.
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Crime Corner. COP HATER. By Ed McBain. Permabooks. 35c. Detectives in U. S. metropolis go down bang-bang-bang; 87th Precinct lads go all out. Tense action throughout, with nice police work.
This is my new favourite contemporary review of the first of #EdMcBain #87thPrecinct series, Cop Hater.
[Daily Press, 24 June 1956]
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They don't make covers like this any more - or write cop novels as well as this. #EdMcBain #87thPrecinct #BookCover #CrimeNovel #BookSky
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Penguin Crime 2'6 The mugger Ed McBain. Photo Montage cover of a street, above a sideways face with red pupils and the part-obscured words 87th Precinct
Penguin Crime 2'6 The pusher Ed McBain Photo montage of NYC skyscapers with a red silhouette syringe and the words 87th Precinct down the middle.
Penguin Crime 2'6 Cop hater Ed McBain. Photo montage cover of a semi-industrial cityscape, the words 87th Precinct and a red image of facial features (possibly).
Penguin Books launched as a company on this day, 90 years ago!
In the UK they were the original paperback publisher for 16 of the first 20 #87thPrecinct books* by #EdMcBain. Some of the early editions have fantastic cover designs by Alan Spain and Don Hunstein.
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This #EdWood trading card is somewhat dismissive of the lengthy tv career #GregoryWalcott enjoyed, not least 30 episodes of #87thPrecinct (1961-62), based upon the #EdMcBain novels, in which he co-starred with #RobertLansing, #RonHarper and #NormanFell. I watched the full run a couple of years ago.
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#remembering #robertlansing #actor #garyseven #startrek #AssignmentEarth #87thPrecinct #thetwilightzone #empireoftheants #scalpel #bonanza #gunsmoke #themanwhoneverwas #murdershwrote #theastronaut #themodsquad #theeviltouch #automan #TheEqualizer #monsters #kungfu #lawandorder
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The first fifteen of the #87thPrecinct series were published in Hardback in the UK by TV Boardman as “American Bloodhound Mysteries”
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Cover of Like Love by Ed McBain. A dark haired lady wearing black underwear, but wrapped in a diaphanous gown stands beside a man in a raincoat sat in a chair, his hands clasped together with his head resting on his thumbs.
I mean, good lord. #robertmcginnis #edmcbain #87thPrecinct #crimefiction #booksky
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Cut Me In in the Hard Case Crime reissue. A blonde woman in a small white bikini sits on a wall besides a swimming pool. She is holding a bouquet.
And Robert McGinnis's last book cover for #EdMcBain - not for the #87thPrecinct this time - came in 2016, courtesy of @hardcasecrime.bsky.social's reissue of Cut Me In (AKA The Proposition by Hunt Collins)
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Ed McBain's Lady Lady I Did It! An illustrated cover. A woman is lying dead on the floor, books scattered around her. A uniformed police officer is knelt over the body.
(I think) His first 'first edition' cover for the #87thPrecinct series was for Lady, Lady, I Did It! in its Permabook paperback edition in 1962.
#EdMcBain #RobertMcGinnis #Books #Crimefiction
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Robert McGinnis's drawn cover for Ed McBain's The Mugger. A woman in a black dress with a red handbag is having it snatched by a mugger, running past bent over.
Farewell then, Robert McGinnis. He wasn't the first artist on #EdMcBain's #87thPrecinct series of books, but from the second printing of the early stories in the early sixties, and going forward, he was used.
Look how dynamic this is. Absolute glamour, absolute shock.
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Cover of the French edition of Poison by Ed McBain from Presses Pocket.
Better brush up my schoolboy French!
Thank you, @morganlbrown.bsky.social, for this kind addition to my #edmcbain #87thPrecinct bookshelf - the French edition of Poison (which tells me that the titre original was Poison. Isn’t language fascinating?!)
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Always love hanging out with the bulls and this beagle #booksky #87thprecinct @criminolly.bsky.social
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Cop Hater by Ed McBain. A yellow cover with red title. Photographs of Police procedural activities show through fake bullet holes.
Hardback edition of Ed McBain's Bread. A hand holding a gun sticks out of the window of a building made of bundles of cash instead of bricks.
Alan Spain designed cover of Killer's Choice by Ed McBain. It is a semi-collage of bloody bullet holes, the word 87th Precinct and a New York city street.
There's lots of sharing of book covers today, because it's World Book Day (although I think that's almost uniquely a UK thing. Maybe it's like the World Series, I dunno).
Anyway, here's a small selection from the shelves of #EvanHunter/#EdMcBain... first up some #87thPrecinct designs
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A handwritten diagram showing the links between author Ed McBain, actor Peter Falk and director Alfred Hitchcock
I have no memory of drawing this McBain/Hitchcock/Falk Nexus diagram!
I just found it in a notebook at work. Must have done it years ago.
#87thPrecinct #Columbo #AlfredHitchcock
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Snappy dialogue, solid police procedures & the gritty stench of 1950s big city problems make LADY KILLER by Ed McBain one tough & readable cop thriller. Head in & see if you can stand the heat. #BookReview #amReading #Cop #Thrillers #87thPrecinct #Books
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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It's a slow road rebuilding the 87th Precinct community on Bluesky, but we'll get there I'm sure. In the meantime if you are an Evan Hunter/Ed McBain reader/collector - checklist here!
#books #booksky #crimefiction #policeprocedural #pulp #shortstory #writing #edmcbain #87thprecinct #evanhunter
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#edmcbain #87thPrecinct #crimefiction #pulp #policeprocedural #evanhunter #books #booksky #literature and so forth
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My Background/Wallpaper I made many moons ago that is based on Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct Series. I was reminded of it by Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast that is now on Bluesky!
#hark87thprecint #edmcbain #87thprecinct #stevecarrella
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Cover of score to the film _Cop Hater_ with silhouettes of man in trenchcoat holding a gun and a NYC skyline with the Empire State Building.
Score to _Cop Hater_ (1958) due out in July from Kronos Records (film based on first #87thPrecinct novel by #EdMcBain). bit.ly/Score-CopHater #EvanHunter #policeprocedurals
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