After being very pleased with THE GUTTER AND THE GRAVE, a
recent Hard Case reprint of an old Evan Hunter / Ed McBain
novel written as "Curt Cannon," I've kept a sharp eye out for
other standalones and came across a beatup reprint copy of
BIG MAN (as "Richard Marsten") a few weeks ago. Finally had a
chance to read it recently, and was nearly as enthralled by
that one as GUTTER.
I've never been a big fan of police procedurals (or series in
general), so have thus far avoided the 87th Precienct novels.
But there's no denying McBain can write, and I'd love to read
some more of these pseudonymous standalone novels. Can anyone
point me in the right direction...looking for other names he
may have used, any particularly outstanding works by each
name, etc..
(On a related sidenote, it was interesting to see the word
"muggles" used in 1959's BIG MAN as a slang term for
marijuana (joints, to be specific)...some four decades before
J.K. Rowling popularized it among children as meaning
something else entirely)
Ron C.
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