After going through the archives recently, I can say with
certainity that every one of my HB favorites have been the
topic of at least one lengthy discussion on this list...with
one major exception; ED MCBAIN! I've always wondered why
there's not that much talk about him here. Is he not
considered HB enough? God knows, he certainly has enough
material to talk about!! He just published his 50th 87th
precinct novel(the first one was published in '56'). For my
money he still writes the best dialogue in the
business(although Leonard is a close second). Anyway, since
I'm the one trying to get a McBain dialogue going I'd better
kick it off already:
Any other big McBain fans out there? Favorite 87th precinct
novels? Mine would be The Pusher, Blood Relatives, Lightning,
and the first four Deaf man books. Anybody familiar with the
stuff he wrote under the Richard Marsten name. Still haven't
read many of those and I was curious about them. He's written
under quite a few pseudonynms, including Hunt Collins, Ezra
Hannon, Curt Cannon,Jeff Abbott,and let's not forget the
mans' ACTUAL name, Evan Hunter.
Roy
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