Barking at Butterflies and Other Stories
By Evan Hunter
2000
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Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Evan Hunter also writes under the pen name Ed McBain. Evan Hunter wrote the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "Strangers When We Meet", and the novel The Blackboard Jungle. As Ed McBain, he has written fifty 87th Precinct novels, the blueprint series for police procedurals. His short stories take you onto the gritty and violent streets of the city and into the darkest places in the human mind. This collection of eleven stories showcases the mastery for which the San Diego Union-Tribune dubs him "the unquestioned king".
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Evan Hunter
Author · 26 books
Better known by his pseudonym Ed McBain. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.
