Evan Hunter Summary

Mcbain, Ed (1926—) Over the past 40 years, Evan Hunter, writing under the pseudonym Ed McBain, has established himself as an amazingly prolific author in a number of different genres. He is bes... Read more

In 2001, veteran crime writer Ed McBain teamed up with acclaimed literary novelist and screenwriter Evan Hunter to write Candyland: A Novel of Obsession; the book opens with the type of in-depth chara... Read more

Critical Essay by Nathan Rothman Evan Hunter's "The Blackboard Jungle" is the most realistic account I have ever read of life in a New York City vocational Evan Hunter 1926–... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher [In "King's Ransom"] here am I once more saying, "McBain has done it again." Praise of a consistently admirable performer must get ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher ["The Heckler" tells] how the boys of the Eighty-seventh Precinct worked vigorously and valiantly—and failed to prevent or to punish a singularly... Read more

Critical Essay by Al Morgan Evan Hunter is a man of many talents and many names. As Ed McBain, he is writing the most authentic squad-room thrillers since Sidney Kingsley researched "Detective ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne Keehan Although it gets off to a slow start, "Paper Dragon" does develop into a quite interesting story of a five-day plagiarism trial. As a novel, though, there a... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank N. Jones [A Horse's Head] is a lively, fast-moving tale of big-time robbery in New York City recounted by the innocent victim of an abortive plot to spirit the loot out ... Read more

Critical Essay by Katherine Gauss Jackson [Last Summer is a] slow-building but compelling story that begins innocently enough with an idyll involving three bright and funny young people—two tee... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard P. Brickner To read "Sons" is to read the just-published work of a serious novelist in a Joan Crawford movie. It covers thousands of miles and more than 60 year... Read more

Critical Essay by Louis D. Mitchell "Streets of Gold," by Evan Hunter, is a novel which encircles the character Ignazio Silvio di Palermo who is also called Iggie, Ike, Blind Ike, and Dw... Read more

Critical Essay by The New Yorker ["Streets of Gold" is a] pop epic that takes the form of a family history and autobiography by Iggie Di Palermo—in later years known as Dwight Jam... Read more

Critical Essay by Julian Symons The first of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct stories, "Cop Hater," appeared in 1956, and for a while he published two or three tales about the Precinct e... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Cooperman The good surface realism of "The Blackboard Jungle" hides its lack of depth. Hunter lays to rest for all time the notion that high-school teaching is ... Read more

Critical Essay by Ivan Gold Born "Lombino" in New York City in 1926, Evan Hunter, under that pseudonym and the further noms de plume of Hunt Collins, Richard Marsten and Ed McBain, has p... Read more

Critical Essay by Bill Greenwell A maudlin score of violins has maundered down the scale. 'Well then,' admits the officer in charge, 'the airplanes got him.' But our hero h... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Freedman Hooked into a cat's cradle of life-sustaining apparatus, few of us today can hope, with Keats, for an "easeful Death" in which we "cease ... Read more

Critical Essay by Robin W. Winks [Ice] is grim stuff, as McBain usually is. By now McBain has the 87th Precinct down pat: he could probably write in his sleep. But then Arnold Bennett wrote a good bit... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly [In "The McBain Brief"] the creator of the famed 87th Precinct gives us eight stories with policemen…. Also included are an amusing story about... Read more

Critical Essay by John L. Stubing Through the years, Evan Hunter has written stories under a number of pseudonyms, including those of Richard Marsten and Hunt Collins. His most familiar nom de plume, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly [In Lizzie] Hunter has … produced a hybrid work that is not successful as a novel and only partially convincing as a detective story. Using the actual transc... Read more

Critical Essay by D. V. O'brien The mystery novel has changed in many ways since 1900, and this Matthew Hope adventure [Jack and the Beanstalk] is a tour de force of the new genre. Hope, who ha... Read more

Critical Essay by John House [The case of Lizzie Borden] has inspired more than a dozen books, several plays, two television treatments, even a ballet. Like many of those before him who have been fasc... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher ["A Matter of Conviction" seems] intended, by both author and publisher, as a serious mainstream novel; and I hate to report that Hunter's commer... Read more

Critical Essay by Julian Symons The most consistently skillful writer of police novels is undoubtedly Ed McBain. Under his real name of Evan Hunter … he has written some highly successful novel... Read more

Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar [Ed McBain] has, in some ways, broken his usual format [in "Hail to the Chief"]. Gang war is the substance of the book. There is no mystery. McBain, e... Read more

Critical Essay by James R. Frakes The country may not be exactly drooling with hunger for another novel about "Westering," but Evan Hunter, in ["The Chisholms"] evokes some... Read more