RIP: Ed McBain
Total bummer. So Drue and I stayed to Selkirk Lighthouse for the weekend. Pretty cool to go up in a lighthouse built in the late 1830's. I hit the library and picked up an Ed McBain book - The Frumious Bandersnatch - I hadn't read yet. I'd read a couple of his books in years past, and then forgot to pick up the rest. As with his past work, I devoured the book and loved every page of it. I was making plans to start from the first one in the 87th Precinct series - Cop Hater (published in 1956!) - and read my way through them all in order. When I got back into town and checked up on the news I found that Evan Hunter - Ed McBain's legal name - had died over the weekend. I still plan on reading the series. There is one more book in the series that has yet to be published. I'm just very disappointed that after that the series will have died with Hunter. Thanks for the great story-telling.

Posted: Monday, 3:22pm | Topic: /General