Learning to kill stories

McBain, Ed 1926-2005 (Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780547350875 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0547350872 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"An Otto Penzler book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.