The New Black Mask (No 7)

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Nineteen eighty-six is a year of celebration for Ed McBain. It is the thirtieth anniversary of the first 87th Precinct novel, the year in which the thirty-ninth novel in the series will be published, and at the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) awards dinner, he will be given the highest honor the MWA bestows — Grand Master — in recognition of a distinguished body of work. In 1959, Anthony Boucher observed in his introduction to an omnibus of the first three 87th Precinct novels that “at exactly the right historical moment [McBain] managed to write, with more striking effect than anyone before him, what readers were hungering for and whetted their appetites.” Since that time, Mr. McBain has shown a remarkable ability to keep on satisfying his audience, adapting his material to the times and attracting a new generation of readers as appreciative as those Boucher described a quarter century ago.

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