Running From Legs and Other Stories

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Only one story in this collection was published under the pseudonym Ed McBain. That one was the title story, “Running From Legs,” and it first saw the light of day in 1996. Most of the other stories all appeared under my own name, Evan Hunter. Three of the stories in this collection were never published anywhere before, under either name.

You may well ask why.

I will tell you why.

They were probably not good enough.

(I don’t believe that for a moment.)

Because I am a master of suspense, or rather because Ed McBain is a master of suspense, I won’t tell you which those three stories are until you’re almost finished reading this little introduction. Instead, I will answer another question I feel certain is burning in your mind, and that is this: If only one story that follows was published under the Ed McBain pseudonym, why then does he get top billing on the cover and the title page of this book?

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