Order of Ed McBain Books
Ed McBain is the pseudonym prolific American novelist Evan Hunter (1926-2005) is perhaps best known as. He was born Salvatore Lombino in New York City and had his name legally changed to Evan Hunter in 1952. Besides Hunter and McBain, he also used several other pseudonyms, including Richard Marsten, Hunt Collins, Curt Cannon, Ezra Hannon and John Abbott.
McBain started writing way back in 1952 and had books continually published until his death in 2005. His bibliography covers a wide array of genres. Aside from novels, he also penned several short story collections, two autobiographies, plus numerous plays, screenplays and teleplays. Below is a list of all of Evan Hunter’s published novels in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of 87th Precinct Books
| Cop Hater | (1956) |    |
| The Mugger | (1956) | |
| The Pusher | (1956) | |
| The Con Man | (1957) | |
| Killer's Choice | (1957) | |
| Lady Killer | (1958) | |
| Killer's Wedge | (1958) | |
| Killer's Payoff | (1958) | |
| King's Ransom | (1959) | |
| 'Til Death | (1959) | |
| Give the Boys a Great Big Hand | (1960) | |
| The Heckler | (1960) | |
| See Them Die | (1960) | |
| Lady, Lady, I Did It! | (1961) | |
| The Empty Hours | (1962) | |
| Like Love | (1962) | |
| Ten Plus One | (1963) | |
| Ax | (1963) | |
| He Who Hesitates | (1965) | |
| Doll | (1965) | |
| Eighty Million Eyes | (1966) | |
| Fuzz | (1968) | |
| Shotgun | (1968) | |
| Jigsaw | (1970) | |
| Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! | (1971) | |
| Sadie When She Died | (1972) | |
| Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man | (1973) | |
| Hail to the Chief | (1973) | |
| Bread | (1974) | |
| Blood Relatives | (1975) | |
| So Long as You Both Shall Live | (1976) | |
| Long Time No See | (1977) | |
| Calypso | (1979) | |
| Ghosts | (1980) | |
| Heat | (1981) | |
| McBain Brief | (1982) | |
| Ice | (1983) | |
| Lightning | (1984) | |
| And All Through The House | (1984) | |
| Eight Black Horses | (1985) | |
| Poison | (1987) | |
| Lullaby | (1989) | |
| Vespers | (1989) | |
| Tricks | (1989) | |
| Widows | (1991) | |
| Kiss | (1992) | |
| Mischief | (1993) | |
| Romance | (1995) | |
| Nocturne | (1997) | |
| The Big Bad City | (1998) | |
| The Last Dance | (1999) | |
| Money, Money, Money | (2001) | |
| Fat Ollie's Book | (2002) | |
| The Frumious Bandersnatch | (2003) | |
| Hark! | (2004) | |
| Fiddlers | (2005) | |
Publication Order of Matthew Hope Books
| Goldilocks | (1976) | |
| Rumpelstiltskin | (1981) | |
| Beauty And The Beast | (1982) | |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | (1984) | |
| Snow White and Rose Red | (1985) | |
| Cinderella | (1986) | |
| Puss in Boots | (1987) | |
| The House That Jack Built | (1988) | |
| Three Blind Mice | (1990) | |
| Mary, Mary | (1991) | |
| There Was A Little Girl | (1994) | |
| Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear | (1996) | |
| The Last Best Hope | (1998) | |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
(with Stephen King, Lawrence Block, John Farris)
| Transgressions | (2006) | |
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Rocket To Luna | (1953) | |
| Don't Crowd Me | (1953) | |
| Danger: Dinosaurs! | (1953) | |
| Cut Me In | (1954) | |
| Runaway Black | (1954) | |
| The Blackboard Jungle | (1954) | |
| Death of a Nurse | (1955) | |
| Murder in the Navy | (1955) | |
| Tomorrow's World | (1956) | |
| Second Ending | (1956) | |
| Vanishing Ladies | (1957) | |
| The Spiked Heel | (1957) | |
| I'm Cannon--For Hire | (1958) | |
| Strangers When We Met | (1958) | |
| Even the Wicked | (1958) | |
| The Gutter and the Grave | (1958) | |
| Big Man | (1959) | |
| A Matter of Conviction | (1959) | |
| Buddwing | (1964) | |
| The Sentries | (1965) | |
| The Paper Dragon | (1967) | |
| A Horse's Head | (1967) | |
| Last Summer | (1968) | |
| Sons | (1969) | |
| Nobody Knew They Were There | (1971) | |
| Every Little Crook and Nanny | (1972) | |
| Seven | (1972) | |
| Come Winter | (1973) | |
| Streets of Gold | (1974) | |
| Doors | (1975) | |
| Where There's Smoke | (1975) | |
| Guns | (1976) | |
| The Chisholms | (1976) | |
| Love Dad | (1981) | |
| Far from the Sea | (1982) | |
| Lizzie | (1984) | |
| Another Part of the City | (1986) | |
| Downtown | (1989) | |
| Gangs! | (1989) | |
| Scimitar | (1992) | |
| Criminal Conversation | (1994) | |
| Privileged Conversation | (1995) | |
| Driving Lessons | (1998) | |
| Candyland | (2000) | |
| The Moment She Was Gone | (2002) | |
| Alice In Jeopardy | (2004) | |
| So Nude, So Dead | (2015) | |
| Runaway | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Children's Books
| Find the Feathered Serpent | (1952) | |
| The Remarkable Harry | (1961) | |
| The Wonderful Button | (1961) | |
| Me and Mr. Stenner | (1976) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Let's Talk | (2005) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The McBain Brief | (1982) | |
| Barking at Butterflies | (2000) | |
| Running from Legs and Other Stories | (2002) | |
| Learning to Kill | (2006) | |
| Transgressions | (2006) | |
| Keller's Adjustment; Forever | (2006) | |
| I Like 'Em Tough | (2016) | |
| The Jungle Kids | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Curt Cannon Short Story Collections
| I Like 'Em Tough | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Books
| The Sunday Pigeon Murders | (1942) | |
| The Thursday Turkey Murders | (1943) | |
| The April Robin Murders | (1958) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense | (1981) | |
| The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | (1988) | |
| City Sleuths and Tough Guys | (1989) | |
| Crimes of Passion | (1993) | |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | (1995) | |
| The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories | (1996) | |
| Crime After Crime | (1999) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | (2000) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | |
| Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times | (2001) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | |
| The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | (2004) | |
| Dangerous Women | (2005) | |
| Transgressions | (2005) | |
| Transgressions vol. 4 | (2006) | |
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | |
| Masters of Noir, Volume One | (2010) | |
| Masters of Noir, Volume Three | (2010) | |
| Books to Die For | (2012) | |
Notes: The following books were published under Ed McBain’s legal name of Evan Hunter: Find The Feathered Serpent, The Evil Sleep!, Don’t Crowd Me, The Blackboard Jungle, Second Ending, Strangers When We Meet, A Matter of Conviction, The Remarkable Harry, Mothers and Daughters, The Wonderful Button, Buddwing, Me And Mr. Stenner, 80 Million Eyes, The Paper Dragon, A Horse’s Head, Last Summer, Sons, Nobody Knew They Were There, Every Little Crook and Nanny, Seven, Come Winter, Streets of Gold, The Chisholms, Walk Proud, Love Dad, Lizzie, Criminal Conversation, Privileged Conversation, Candyland (“co-written” with Ed McBain) and The Moment She Was Gone.
The following books were published under the pseudonym of Richard Marsten: Danger: Dinosaurs!, Rocket To Luna, Runaway Black, Murder in the Navy, Vanishing Ladies, The Spiked Heel, Even The Wicked and Big Man. Vanishing Ladies, Big Man and Runaway Black were republished as Ed McBain. Murder in the Navy was later republished as Death of a Nurse by Ed McBain.
Cut Me In and Tomorrow’s World were published under the pseudonym of Hunt Collins. Tomorrow’s World was republished as both Tomorrow And Tomorrow by Hunt Collins and Sphere by Ed McBain. Cut Me In was later republished as The Proposition.
Doors was published under the pen name Ezra Hannon. It was later republished under the name Ed McBain.
Scimitar was published under the pen name John Abbott.
I’m Cannon – For Hire was published under the pen name Curt Cannon. It was later revised and republished as The Gutter and the Grave by Ed McBain.
The April Robin Murders was started by Craig Rice and finished by Evan Hunter (as Ed McBain).
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This is a wonderful list and you rock for this site. I publish your link everywhere. I just found this: http://evanhunter.com/books/allwork.html which shows a whopping 4 books he wrote for children – you have them listed but not for children or I just missed them. I’ll be looking for these for my grandchildren someday. Thanks for all you do.
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Brandon Thanks for ALL you do.