Ed McBain
Ed McBain, born Salvatore A. Lombino, was an American author best known for his pioneering 87th Precinct police procedural novels, starting with Cop Hater in 1956, which set the gold standard for the genre. He legally changed his name to Evan Hunter in 1952 and used numerous pseudonyms, writing over 100 novels including the Matthew Hope series and standalone works like The Blackboard Jungle. McBain received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award in 1986 and the British Crime Writers Association's Diamond Dagger in 1998 before his death from cancer in 2005.
Police procedural
Crime
Mystery
Thriller
Lullaby (87th Precinct Book 41)
Kiss (87th Precinct Book 44)
Kiss (87th Precinct Book 44)
Snow White and Rose Red (Matthew Hope Series)
Rumpelstiltskin (Matthew Hope Series)
Eighty Million Eyes
Cop Hater (87th Precinct Book 1)
King’s Ransom (87th Precinct Book 10)
The Con Man (87th Precinct Book 4)
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (87th Precinct Book 11)
There was a Little Girl (A Matthew Hope Mystery Book 11)
Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man (87th Precinct Book 27)
Puss in Boots (A Matthew Hope Mystery Book 7)
Widows (87th Precinct Book 43)
Three Blind Mice (A Matthew Hope Mystery Book 9)
Lightning (87th Precinct Book 37)
So Nude, So Dead
Mischief
Puss in Boots (A Matthew Hope Mystery Book 7)
Nobody Knew They Were There
The Big Bad City (87th Precinct Mysteries)
Doors
King's Ransom (87th Precinct)
Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct Mysteries Book 48)