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
Guns
Fuzz
Don't Crowd Me
Learning to Kill: Stories
Fiddlers: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct Mysteries)
'Til Death
Another Part of the City
The Last Dance (87th Precinct, Book 50)
The Mugger (87th Precinct Series, Book 2)
Cop Hater (87th Precinct)
The Con Man (87th Precinct)
The Con Man
Killer's Payoff
Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Shotgun
So Long As You Both Shall Live (87th Precinct)
Calypso
The Con Man
The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime)
Lady Killer (87th Precinct)
The Heckler
Lady, Lady, I Did It!
Mischief: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Poison: An 87th Precinct Novel