Hark! The 87th Precinct Project
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The only podcast IN THE WORLD dedicated to Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels, adaptations & spin-offs.
Plus music, film & social context - the 'project'. Posts by Paul Abbott.
https://pod.link/1179080344/
Plus music, film & social context - the 'project'. Posts by Paul Abbott.
https://pod.link/1179080344/
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If you're an Ed McBain / Evan Hunter collector, or want to be, then you can access an online 'flipbook' version of my Checklist which also features as a bonus a brief biography of Hunter. I believe this to be the most thorough listing of his works available.
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My goodness but I love that bookshop.
Well folks, our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookstore of 2025 is nearing its end. Anything we should do before the title passes on to another deserving bookseller?
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My goodness but I love that bookshop.
From the Liverpool Daily Post, 25 September 1989.
Evan Hunter lounges in Liverpool whilst promoting 'Downtown'.
#edmcbain #crimefiction #books #evanhunter #87thPrecinct
Evan Hunter lounges in Liverpool whilst promoting 'Downtown'.
#edmcbain #crimefiction #books #evanhunter #87thPrecinct
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
From the Liverpool Daily Post, 25 September 1989.
Evan Hunter lounges in Liverpool whilst promoting 'Downtown'.
#edmcbain #crimefiction #books #evanhunter #87thPrecinct
Evan Hunter lounges in Liverpool whilst promoting 'Downtown'.
#edmcbain #crimefiction #books #evanhunter #87thPrecinct
Listening to @scottaukerman.bsky.social’s “Scott Hasn’t Seen” pod about Dirty Harry with Shane Black was really interesting - great discussion about a great film and Black has just directed the new Parker film and also briefly mentioned good old #EdMcBain and the #87thPrecinct books.
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Listening to @scottaukerman.bsky.social’s “Scott Hasn’t Seen” pod about Dirty Harry with Shane Black was really interesting - great discussion about a great film and Black has just directed the new Parker film and also briefly mentioned good old #EdMcBain and the #87thPrecinct books.
No Evan Hunter!?
Oh well, the following year Ed McBain would become the Mystery Writers of America GRAND MASTER!
Oh well, the following year Ed McBain would become the Mystery Writers of America GRAND MASTER!
The lineup at the bookshop’s 1985 Edgar Awards celebration is the stuff of legends
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
No Evan Hunter!?
Oh well, the following year Ed McBain would become the Mystery Writers of America GRAND MASTER!
Oh well, the following year Ed McBain would become the Mystery Writers of America GRAND MASTER!
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It appears that Tatsuya Nakadai died a few days ago, at the age of 92.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It appears that Tatsuya Nakadai died a few days ago, at the age of 92.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
It appears that Tatsuya Nakadai died a few days ago, at the age of 92.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It appears that Tatsuya Nakadai died a few days ago, at the age of 92.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
He played Inspector Tokura in Kurosawa's High and Low - essentially the Steve Carella character in the fantastic adaptation of King's Ransom.
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Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, and Margaret Hayes in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
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Paul Abbott (@pablovich.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Disneytime Rotadraw, Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World on Magic Eye, Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming, Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game and more...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Paul Abbott – Don’t Make A Puppy A Stage Manager
Looks Unfamiliar with Paul Abbott talking to Tim Worthington about Disneytime Rotadraw, What Shall We Do Now?: Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Frog Dreaming, Tomorrow&#…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Paul Abbott (@pablovich.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Disneytime Rotadraw, Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World on Magic Eye, Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming, Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game and more...
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It’s BIO-PIC (or however you want to render it) for the reason Steven outlines here. HOWEVER, the snappier ‘biop-ic’ is fine as long as you acknowledge the derivation!
(My Masters? All about music biopics, if you’re asking)
(My Masters? All about music biopics, if you’re asking)
I'm 'bi-oh-pic' all the way (it's a BIOgraphical PICture), but I wonder if the other pronunciation is more prevalent in people 50+ because they would have been around to watch The Six Million Dollar Man and will always read it in the same way they read 'bionic'?
Everyone talks about biopics. But how do they say “biopic”?
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
It’s BIO-PIC (or however you want to render it) for the reason Steven outlines here. HOWEVER, the snappier ‘biop-ic’ is fine as long as you acknowledge the derivation!
(My Masters? All about music biopics, if you’re asking)
(My Masters? All about music biopics, if you’re asking)
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I love Quincy. I love Klugman.
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I love Quincy. I love Klugman.
My very littlest brother turned 21 yesterday (I crumble to a pile of ancient dust). He likes to read and said he'd like to try some crime/thriller books.
I sent him Point Blank (The Hunter) / The Hot Rock / The Continental Op and Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World. THAT'LL LEARN HIM.
I sent him Point Blank (The Hunter) / The Hot Rock / The Continental Op and Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World. THAT'LL LEARN HIM.
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My very littlest brother turned 21 yesterday (I crumble to a pile of ancient dust). He likes to read and said he'd like to try some crime/thriller books.
I sent him Point Blank (The Hunter) / The Hot Rock / The Continental Op and Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World. THAT'LL LEARN HIM.
I sent him Point Blank (The Hunter) / The Hot Rock / The Continental Op and Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World. THAT'LL LEARN HIM.
Think I'm entering a "Must read all the Travis McGee novels" phase.
October 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Think I'm entering a "Must read all the Travis McGee novels" phase.
Can Paul find an #EvanHunter / #EdMcBain link to anything?
Well, Andy and the @backlisted.bsky.social gang will be at the 92nd Str Y, where Evan (still Salvatore Lombino at the time) & his wife Anita worked as counsellors. It's possible they heard T S Eliot speaking there in 1950...
Well, Andy and the @backlisted.bsky.social gang will be at the 92nd Str Y, where Evan (still Salvatore Lombino at the time) & his wife Anita worked as counsellors. It's possible they heard T S Eliot speaking there in 1950...
Welp, Backlisted has just been moved to the biggest stage at the 92nd St Y due to “unprecedented demand”. Join the waiting list, New York! Two weeks today, we’ll be celebrating William Maxwell, a century of the New Yorker and, oh yeah, a decade of @backlisted.bsky.social. Tickets via 92NY.org.
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Can Paul find an #EvanHunter / #EdMcBain link to anything?
Well, Andy and the @backlisted.bsky.social gang will be at the 92nd Str Y, where Evan (still Salvatore Lombino at the time) & his wife Anita worked as counsellors. It's possible they heard T S Eliot speaking there in 1950...
Well, Andy and the @backlisted.bsky.social gang will be at the 92nd Str Y, where Evan (still Salvatore Lombino at the time) & his wife Anita worked as counsellors. It's possible they heard T S Eliot speaking there in 1950...
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The #BookMail concludes with a late entry in #EdMcBain’s 87th Precinct series. I already own the e-book, and tried reading it earlier this year, but it’s a mess of spelling and grammar mistakes. Just couldn’t do it anymore. Hoping the hardcover is a cleaner read.
October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The #BookMail concludes with a late entry in #EdMcBain’s 87th Precinct series. I already own the e-book, and tried reading it earlier this year, but it’s a mess of spelling and grammar mistakes. Just couldn’t do it anymore. Hoping the hardcover is a cleaner read.
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Ping @hark87podcast.bsky.social . 3 cheers for ‘Fuzz’ courtesy of David Foster Wallace & @caseystegman.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Ping @hark87podcast.bsky.social . 3 cheers for ‘Fuzz’ courtesy of David Foster Wallace & @caseystegman.com
Exactly how Evan Hunter wrote it in his script.
September 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Exactly how Evan Hunter wrote it in his script.
Can't believe in the year that Highest 2 Lowest has come out, no one has asked me to write about it in regards to McBain.
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Can't believe in the year that Highest 2 Lowest has come out, no one has asked me to write about it in regards to McBain.
Gonna put this on the Christmas list!
Not sure if BlueSky friends realise, I also write crime fiction. This features my Australian equivalent of Parker, Gary Chance. Some of these books have, on occasion, been well reviewed.
www.amazon.com/Gunshine-Sta...
www.amazon.com/Gunshine-Sta...
September 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Gonna put this on the Christmas list!
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Give The Boys A Great Big Hand by Ed McBain (Salvatore Albert Lombino) (Penguin C2310, 1968, reprint). Cover Photo by John Claridge. #GiveTheBoysAGreatBigHand #EdMcBain #1960s #JohnClaridge #book #books #paperback #cover #87thPrecinct #crime #PenguinBook #PenguinBooks
September 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Give The Boys A Great Big Hand by Ed McBain (Salvatore Albert Lombino) (Penguin C2310, 1968, reprint). Cover Photo by John Claridge. #GiveTheBoysAGreatBigHand #EdMcBain #1960s #JohnClaridge #book #books #paperback #cover #87thPrecinct #crime #PenguinBook #PenguinBooks
Interesting to see how the trades were advertising the novel Mothers and Daughters by #EvanHunter. Especially as it never made it to the screen in the end.
Has anyone read it? It's 900 pages in it's original edition and it's staring at me from the bookshelf, looking intimidating.
Has anyone read it? It's 900 pages in it's original edition and it's staring at me from the bookshelf, looking intimidating.
September 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Interesting to see how the trades were advertising the novel Mothers and Daughters by #EvanHunter. Especially as it never made it to the screen in the end.
Has anyone read it? It's 900 pages in it's original edition and it's staring at me from the bookshelf, looking intimidating.
Has anyone read it? It's 900 pages in it's original edition and it's staring at me from the bookshelf, looking intimidating.
Watched a fantastic comedy heist movie last night; Bill Forsyth's That Sinking Feeling from 1979. It's not a slick, flashy thriller - it's a near-zero budget Scottish film in a very deprived "Glasgow" of the 1970s, but it's brilliant.
If you watch it, make sure you choose the original audio track!
If you watch it, make sure you choose the original audio track!
September 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Watched a fantastic comedy heist movie last night; Bill Forsyth's That Sinking Feeling from 1979. It's not a slick, flashy thriller - it's a near-zero budget Scottish film in a very deprived "Glasgow" of the 1970s, but it's brilliant.
If you watch it, make sure you choose the original audio track!
If you watch it, make sure you choose the original audio track!
Sudden panic that all my autobiographical/family research on Evan Hunter/Ed McBain was wrong when I found him linked in a family tree on Ancestry with different parents/grandparents listed. Luckily, it turns out they are wrong. Hope they enjoy thinking they're related to an author.
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sudden panic that all my autobiographical/family research on Evan Hunter/Ed McBain was wrong when I found him linked in a family tree on Ancestry with different parents/grandparents listed. Luckily, it turns out they are wrong. Hope they enjoy thinking they're related to an author.
The answer is that is the 1964 film 恐怖の時間 AKA Fright Time or Time of Fear, adapted from #EdMcBain #87thPrecinct story KILLER'S WEDGE.
Directed by Katsumi Iwanai (岩内克己) this was a Toho film, the year after Kurosawa's High and Low.
Directed by Katsumi Iwanai (岩内克己) this was a Toho film, the year after Kurosawa's High and Low.
Guess which 87th Precinct book this film is adapted from, just from the provided still...
September 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The answer is that is the 1964 film 恐怖の時間 AKA Fright Time or Time of Fear, adapted from #EdMcBain #87thPrecinct story KILLER'S WEDGE.
Directed by Katsumi Iwanai (岩内克己) this was a Toho film, the year after Kurosawa's High and Low.
Directed by Katsumi Iwanai (岩内克己) this was a Toho film, the year after Kurosawa's High and Low.
Just spent a couple of hours talking about Ed McBain and the 87th Precinct on a podcast! Imagine!
September 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just spent a couple of hours talking about Ed McBain and the 87th Precinct on a podcast! Imagine!
Guess which 87th Precinct book this film is adapted from, just from the provided still...
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Guess which 87th Precinct book this film is adapted from, just from the provided still...