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Ed McBain

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Ed McBain (October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. [1]

71 relations: Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, American literature, Arthur C. Clarke, Blackboard Jungle, Blood Relatives, Brian Dennehy, Chief information officer, Claude Chabrol, Columbo, Columbo (season 10), Cooper Union, Cop Hater, Craig Rice (author), Crime fiction, Criminal Conversation, Daphne du Maurier, Delbert Mann, Destroyer, Dream West, Frank Perry, Fuzz (film), Harlem, High and Low (1963 film), Hunter College, Killer's Payoff, King's Ransom (novel), Kofuku (film), Kon Ichikawa, Laryngeal cancer, Larynx, Last Summer, Lester del Rey, Marnie, Me and Hitch, Mister Buddwing, Mystery fiction, NBC, Novella, On the Sidewalk Bleeding, P. G. Wodehouse, Pacific Ocean, Pen name, Phi Beta Kappa, Philippe Labro, Police procedural, Poul Anderson, Precancerous condition, Richard Brooks, Richard S. Prather, ..., Robert Preston (actor), Rocket to Luna, Scott Meredith, Screenwriter, Short story, Strangers When We Meet (film), The Best American Mystery Stories, The Birds (film), The Birds (story), The Bronx, The Chisholms, The Legend of Walks Far Woman, The Mugger (novel), United States Navy, Walk Proud, Weston, Connecticut, Winston Graham, Without Apparent Motive, World War II, 87th Precinct, 87th Precinct (TV series). Expand index (21 more) »

Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inter-racial inner-city school, based on the novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack and for the unusual breakout role of a black cast member, future Oscar winner and star Sidney Poitier as a rebellious, yet musically talented student. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Blood Relatives

Blood Relatives (original French title: Les liens de sang) is a 1978 Canadian-French film directed by Claude Chabrol from a screenplay that he and Sydney Banks adapted from a novel of the same name by Ed McBain.

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Brian Dennehy

Brian Manion Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is an American actor of film, stage, and television.

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Chief information officer

Chief information officer (CIO), chief digital information officer (CDIO) or information technology (IT) director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the traditional information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals.

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Claude Chabrol

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.

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Columbo

Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Columbo (season 10)

The final 14 episodes of Columbo were produced sporadically as a series of specials, spanning 13 years from 1990 to 2003.

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Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union or The Cooper Union and informally referred to, especially during the 19th century, as "the Cooper Institute", is a private college at Cooper Square on the border of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Cop Hater

Cop Hater (1956) is the first 87th Precinct police procedural novel by Ed McBain.

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Craig Rice (author)

Craig Rice (1908–1957); born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; was an American author of mystery novels and short stories, sometimes described as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction." She was the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time Magazine, on January 28, 1946.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Criminal Conversation

Criminal Conversation is a novel published in 1994 by Evan Hunter, set in Brooklyn, New York.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.

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Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.

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Dream West

Dream West is a 1986 miniseries that aired on the CBS network in the United States, starring Richard Chamberlain, and directed by Dick Lowry The seven-hour miniseries was broken into three parts (2 hours, 2 hours, and 3 hours).

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Frank Perry

Frank Joseph Perry Jr. (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American stage director and filmmaker.

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Fuzz (film)

Fuzz is a 1972 American action comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla, and stars Burt Reynolds, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch, Tom Skerritt and Jack Weston.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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High and Low (1963 film)

is a 1963 police procedural crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai and Kyōko Kagawa.

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Hunter College

Hunter College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, an American public university.

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Killer's Payoff

Killer's Payoff (1958) is the sixth 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain.

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King's Ransom (novel)

King's Ransom: An 87th Precinct Mystery is a novel by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) published in 1959.

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Kofuku (film)

, also known as "Lonely Heart" is a 1981 Japanese mystery film directed by Kon Ichikawa, based upon the American novel Lady, Lady I Did It (1961) in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series.

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Kon Ichikawa

was a Japanese film director.

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Laryngeal cancer

Laryngeal cancer, also known as cancer of the larynx or laryngeal carcinoma, are mostly squamous cell carcinomas, reflecting their origin from the skin of the larynx.

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Larynx

The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck of tetrapods involved in breathing, producing sound, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.

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Last Summer

Last Summer is a 1969 coming-of-age movie about adolescent sexuality based on the novel Last Summer by Evan Hunter.

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Lester del Rey

Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.

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Marnie

Marnie is an English novel first published in 1961 which was written by Winston Graham.

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Me and Hitch

Me and Hitch is a 1997 book that chronicles the relationship between writer Evan Hunter and director Alfred Hitchcock, beginning with their meeting in the summer of 1959 through April 1963.

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Mister Buddwing

Mister Buddwing is a 1966 American film drama directed by Delbert Mann and starring James Garner.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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On the Sidewalk Bleeding

On the Sidewalk Bleeding is a short story by American author Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Pen name

A pen name (nom de plume, or literary double) is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their "real" name.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro is a French author, journalist and film director, born in Montauban (close to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) on 27 August 1936.

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Police procedural

The police procedural, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that depicts investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story or episode.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.

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Precancerous condition

A precancerous condition or premalignant condition, sometimes called a potentially precancerous condition or potentially premalignant condition, is a term used to describe certain conditions or lesions involving abnormal cells which are associated with an increased risk of developing into cancer.

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Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer.

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Richard S. Prather

Richard Scott Prather.

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Robert Preston (actor)

Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor best remembered for originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Rocket to Luna

Rocket to Luna is a juvenile science fiction novel by prolific author and screenwriter Evan Hunter (as Richard Marsten) published in 1953 by The John C. Winston Company with cover illustration by Alex Schomburg.

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Scott Meredith

Scott Meredith, born Arthur Scott Feldman (1923, New York City, NY – 1993, Manhasset, NY) was a prominent American literary agent, and founder of the.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Strangers When We Meet (film)

Strangers When We Meet is a 1960 drama film about two married neighbors who have an affair.

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The Best American Mystery Stories

The Best American Mystery Stories is a yearly anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies.

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The Birds (film)

The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

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The Birds (story)

"The Birds" is a novelette by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Chisholms

The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, to April 19, 1979; and continued as a television series from January 19, 1980, to March 15, 1980.

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The Legend of Walks Far Woman

The Legend of Walks Far Woman is a 1982 American TV film starring Raquel Welch and Bradford Dillman.

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The Mugger (novel)

The Mugger is a (1956) novel by Ed McBain, the second in his 87th Precinct series.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Walk Proud

Walk Proud is a 1979 American drama film directed by Robert L. Collins and written by Evan Hunter.

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Weston, Connecticut

Weston is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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Winston Graham

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime, (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003) was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall.

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Without Apparent Motive

Without Apparent Motive (Sans mobile apparent) is a 1971 French thriller film directed by Philippe Labro.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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87th Precinct

The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).

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87th Precinct (TV series)

87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott and Norman Fell, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McBain

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