Learning To KillEd McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty five of his stories written before that time. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are

his darkest fear is coming true

love’s agonized disappointments

Kelsey James always played by the rules and look where it got her—dumped and half-drunk in a poofy white dress

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Praise for Canada’s Most Overrated Bank Robber

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an American student searches for the truth about her mother’s death in this eerie

A Lion Among Men traces a battle of wits between adversaries distracted by the armies approaching on either side of them