Learning to Kill: Stories

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.

Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 492
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 7.96h x 7.06w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780156031479

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/05/2007 pg. 20

About the Author
McBain, Ed: - ED McBAIN holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award and was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers' Association's highest award. The author of more than one hundred books, he lives in Connecticut.