05/07/07 16:11:27 2+ar19da
Evan Hunter, the author who as Ed McBain virtually invented
the American police procedural with his gritty 87th Precinct
series featuring an entire detective squad as its hero, died
yesterday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 78.
Evan Hunter, best known for the 87th Precinct series he wrote
as Ed McBain, in 1997 outside the 17th Precinct in Midtown
Manhattan.
The cause was cancer of the larynx, said his agent, Jane
Gelfman.