Ed McBain made his debut in 1956.
These are the Stories that prepared Ed McBain to.
Here, too, are cops and robbers.
Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders.
Here are private eyes and gangs.
Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy.
All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline.
In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his Stories written before that time.
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956