Yesterday’s #BookMail was the next case in #EdMcBain’s 87th Precinct series. Coming to the end, with only a handful to go. First installment I can recall that didn’t open with a dead body on Page One. A drug deal? Outside the US? Bring it on.

Best wishes for the New Year, everyone. Make your Resolution to ‘Listen To Hark!’ and maybe miracles will occur and we’ll do more.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Hark! and the boys from Grover Avenue. #bookstagram #crimefiction #edmcbain #evanhunter

Merry Christmas from all of us at Hark! and the boys from Grover Avenue. #bookstagram #crimefiction #edmcbain #evanhunter

New ‘What if?’ video up now. This week, in an alternative 1982, David Bowie tires of his new soul-pop direction, and decides to get the old band back together! #bowie #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/WB2efswkPmU?...

In case you missed it… there was a seasonal miracle and HARK! THE 87th PRECINCT PODCAST was reborn, after a mere three and a half years in the wilderness. plinkhq.com/i/1179080344... #crimefiction #books #edmcbain #spikelee #kurosawa

With our (FANFARE) podcast returning after a mere three and a half years and the topic being Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, I suppose we should run down the various adaptations of King's Ransom there has been over the years... it's not just Kurosawa, y'know! #booksky #crimefiction #87thPrecinct

Now’s the time to stretch yr thumbs to press the re-post button. We’ve got a lovely, small audience and we’ll need all the help we can get in rekindling the Hark! fire.

With our (FANFARE) podcast returning after a mere three and a half years and the topic being Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, I suppose we should run down the various adaptations of King's Ransom there has been over the years... it's not just Kurosawa, y'know! #booksky #crimefiction #87thPrecinct

HARK! It’s an #87thPrecinct podcast. Yes for the first time in 42 months, we’re back behind the microphones to discuss Spike Lee’s adaptation of High and Low. Has he got an eye on the #EdMcBain source material as well? Find out in our new episode. Share, please! www.podchaser.com/podcasts/har...

HARK! It’s an #87thPrecinct podcast. Yes for the first time in 42 months, we’re back behind the microphones to discuss Spike Lee’s adaptation of High and Low. Has he got an eye on the #EdMcBain source material as well? Find out in our new episode. Share, please! www.podchaser.com/podcasts/har...

Lots of Ed McBain / Evan Hunter / Various Pseudonyms Short Story gaps plugged in my collection today. Thank you, the internet.

A couple of years ago I did an ED-VENT CALENDAR, for fans of the #87thPrecinct #EdMcBain / #EvanHunter. If you want to play along this year (and you've got 17 doors to open straight away!) you can find it here: app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=...

I fear I may have been too subtle with this image. Or maybe we simply don't have enough dedicated Hark! fans on Bluesky yet who would detect the delicious potential this photograph suggests.

Greetings from the world’s oldest mystery bookstore (aka NYC’s premiere gift destination for detective fiction fans)

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If you're an Ed McBain / Evan Hunter collector, or want to be, then you can access an online 'flipbook' version of my Checklist which also features as a bonus a brief biography of Hunter. I believe this to be the most thorough listing of his works available. heyzine.com/flip-book/f3...

Now watching - Cop Hater (1958) A late noir / exploitation film based on an Ed McBain novel I’ve definitely read and have little memory of Everyone is constantly sweating and there’s shirtless men in most scenes / “I like my masculinity like my cops - in crisis”… 🧵 #filmsky

Fiddlers, Ed McBain [Harcourt, 2005]. In the fictitious American city, Isola, the detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate a string of murders, perpetrated by a killer with a personal grudge against each of the victims. The superb 55th (!) and final installment in the classic series.

I Blame Ed McBain - Are you a fan of Police Procedural mysteries? If you haven't read the books by Ed McBain (pen name of Evan Hunter) they are worth checking out. His 87th precinct series is a great one. #Mystery #policeprocedural #blogposts maryannwrites.com/2025/12/01/i...

Oooh, a website dedicated to the Parker books and the world around them! bsky.app/profile/alis...

My name is Roscoe Piglimbs and I'm a stool-pigeon. A real grunter for the mob.

From the cover of an early SF pulp magazine - I better #EvanHunter (as he wasn't officially called quite yet) was thrilled to see his name given incorrectly on the cover!

I'm pretty sure I've got all of the #EvanHunter / #EdMcBain Science-Fiction short stories in some form now. Now somebody needs to let me put them out as a collected edition. (I'd even include the transcript of 'Tales of Tomorrow: Appointment on Mars' as well.)

Here's a couple of the gaps I've filled in the short-story spreadsheet (especially for @sulli864.bsky.social!) I've also tracked down Pretty Eyes and Snowblind, but only in collected stories books, so nothing much to look at.

Ooh. And another.

Two!

A good day when I plug another gap in my #EdMcBain (actually Hunt Collins in this case) short-stories-published-in-magazines collection!

My goodness but I love that bookshop.

From the Liverpool Daily Post, 25 September 1989. Evan Hunter lounges in Liverpool whilst promoting 'Downtown'. #edmcbain #crimefiction #books #evanhunter #87thPrecinct

Listening to @scottaukerman.bsky.social’s “Scott Hasn’t Seen” pod about Dirty Harry with Shane Black was really interesting - great discussion about a great film and Black has just directed the new Parker film and also briefly mentioned good old #EdMcBain and the #87thPrecinct books.

No Evan Hunter!? Oh well, the following year Ed McBain would become the Mystery Writers of America GRAND MASTER!

It appears that Tatsuya Nakadai died a few days ago, at the age of 92. He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.

It appears that Tatsuya Nakadai died a few days ago, at the age of 92. He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.

Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Paul Abbott (@pablovich.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Disneytime Rotadraw, Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World on Magic Eye, Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming, Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game and more... timworthington.org/2024/07/20/l...

It’s BIO-PIC (or however you want to render it) for the reason Steven outlines here. HOWEVER, the snappier ‘biop-ic’ is fine as long as you acknowledge the derivation! (My Masters? All about music biopics, if you’re asking)

I love Quincy. I love Klugman.

My very littlest brother turned 21 yesterday (I crumble to a pile of ancient dust). He likes to read and said he'd like to try some crime/thriller books. I sent him Point Blank (The Hunter) / The Hot Rock / The Continental Op and Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World. THAT'LL LEARN HIM.

Think I'm entering a "Must read all the Travis McGee novels" phase.

Can Paul find an #EvanHunter / #EdMcBain link to anything? Well, Andy and the @backlisted.bsky.social gang will be at the 92nd Str Y, where Evan (still Salvatore Lombino at the time) & his wife Anita worked as counsellors. It's possible they heard T S Eliot speaking there in 1950...

The #BookMail concludes with a late entry in #EdMcBain’s 87th Precinct series. I already own the e-book, and tried reading it earlier this year, but it’s a mess of spelling and grammar mistakes. Just couldn’t do it anymore. Hoping the hardcover is a cleaner read.

Ping @hark87podcast.bsky.social . 3 cheers for ‘Fuzz’ courtesy of David Foster Wallace & @caseystegman.com

Exactly how Evan Hunter wrote it in his script.

Can't believe in the year that Highest 2 Lowest has come out, no one has asked me to write about it in regards to McBain.

Gonna put this on the Christmas list!

Give The Boys A Great Big Hand by Ed McBain (Salvatore Albert Lombino) (Penguin C2310, 1968, reprint). Cover Photo by John Claridge. #GiveTheBoysAGreatBigHand #EdMcBain #1960s #JohnClaridge #book #books #paperback #cover #87thPrecinct #crime #PenguinBook #PenguinBooks

Interesting to see how the trades were advertising the novel Mothers and Daughters by #EvanHunter. Especially as it never made it to the screen in the end. Has anyone read it? It's 900 pages in it's original edition and it's staring at me from the bookshelf, looking intimidating.

Watched a fantastic comedy heist movie last night; Bill Forsyth's That Sinking Feeling from 1979. It's not a slick, flashy thriller - it's a near-zero budget Scottish film in a very deprived "Glasgow" of the 1970s, but it's brilliant. If you watch it, make sure you choose the original audio track!

Sudden panic that all my autobiographical/family research on Evan Hunter/Ed McBain was wrong when I found him linked in a family tree on Ancestry with different parents/grandparents listed. Luckily, it turns out they are wrong. Hope they enjoy thinking they're related to an author.