Come to the mourning bench, light the candles and whisper a prayer for peace for the sorely missed. Ed McBain is gone, and with him – sadly, involuntarily retired – go Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, Bert ...

NEW YORK - Novelist Evan Hunter, better known to many readers as the Ed McBain who wrote the 87th Precinct novels, has died of cancer at the age of 78, his agent said today. Hunter wrote more than 100 ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Evan Hunter, a prolific writer whose gritty Ed McBain 87th Precinct detective series pioneered the police-procedural genre and laid the groundwork for a generation of TV cop dramas, ...

Only rarely does a literary character appear to be fashioned not just with words but with blood and bone, made so alive that you find yourself wondering what he’s doing now, after you’ve read the ...

Writer Evan Hunter, known to most fans as "Ed McBain," virtually created the police novel. He died in 2005. Learning to Kill is a new collection of McBain's early crime fiction. On NPR's Fresh Air, ...

Fans of the Berenstain Bears audiobooks are in for a shock when they listen to McLarty's performance here. Instead of reading the voice of Papa Bear (which he's done for numerous Berenstain Bears ...

Legally, writer Ed McBain was Evan Hunter, but even that name was a smokescreen; he’d been born Salvatore Lombino. Whatever you call him, McBain, who died in July at 78, was one terrific writer.

US crime novelist Ed McBain has died of cancer at the age of 78. Although best known for his novels, McBain also produced plays and screenplays, such as that for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Born ...