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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/

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Nov 26

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.

heyzine.com/flip-book/f3...

Online Flipbook

Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 2d

...which is relevant as the original treatment/draft of The Blackboard Jungle was called 'The Tiger Pit', after a line in Eliot's poem Lines For An Old Man.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Andrew Monge @muchadoaboutnil.bsky.social · 7d

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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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 9d

Ping @hark87podcast.bsky.social . 3 cheers for ‘Fuzz’ courtesy of David Foster Wallace & @caseystegman.com

2 Pan UK paperback editions of ‘Fuzz’ by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter)
1 is the film tie in edition featuring movie illustrated poster showing the cast included Raquel Welch in bikini &
Burt Reynolds in nuns habit & Yul Brunner as the Deaf Man.
2 is a gold band Pan edition showing a snub nosed .38 revolver in the snow.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 16d

Exactly how Evan Hunter wrote it in his script.

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 16d

Only 44k views for this work of art is absolutely insane. It's incredible.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAXO...

B.O.B. (Birds Over Big Bird)

YouTube video by Bell Brothers

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 21d

I mean, I'll do it at some point for the socials anyway.

Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 21d

Gonna put this on the Christmas list!

Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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David Hyman @davidhyman.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hunter's archive contains reference to two drafts of a screenplay by Delmer Daves, actor/film-maker who had some notable success with 3.10 to Yuma and A Summer Place (presumably this latter which he adapted and directed qualified him for the Hunter adaptation job).

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

Bookseller advert for Evan Hunter's £100000 novel. Plus more to come, the advert says, breaking down the money for the various rights involved in the publication.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

(They did an 'Anglicised' version of what is already technically English, although massively Scots-infused and this version has been included on the BFI release as well)

Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

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!

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 9

a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie standing in front of a fire escape

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie standing in front of a fire escape

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 5

I've not been able to find a copy, but it seems to be that the hostage-taker is male and the story is about mistaken identity - the police-chief and Detective have the same name (Yamamoto) and so the would-be killer takes the squad-room and police chief hostage to awaiting the detective's return.

Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 3

Guess which 87th Precinct book this film is adapted from, just from the provided still...

Black and White film still. A man in a leather jacket points a gun at someone in a room with four other people seated or stood around desks.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 4

You got it! I’ll do a proper post tomorrow.

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 4

Never! (Eventually)

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just spent a couple of hours talking about Ed McBain and the 87th Precinct on a podcast! Imagine!

Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s mad! We’ll probably never know what that series is like - I hope they did something clever with it.

Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 3

Guess which 87th Precinct book this film is adapted from, just from the provided still...

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really interesting podcast here about High and Low which also delves into some of the McBain background of it (including one audacious theory about a possible inspiration for the novel!)

Point your podcast machines this way…

Tipping My Fedora @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · Aug 31

High and Low (1963) was the penultimate film in the amazing run of 16 collaborations between Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa. Aidan Brack (@mysteriesahoy.bsky.social) joins me to celebrate this classic at Tipping My Fedora.

Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB
Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu
YouTube shorturl.at/QXP4H

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · Aug 30

That is odd! I can’t make out the name really, but here’s an example from my shelves.

Title page of Bread by Ed McBain featuring the author’s signature.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · Aug 27

I've been reading out in public and attracted members of the opposite sex. It was an 87th Precinct novel* and the person it attracted, however, was an older lady who wanted to tell me because it wasn't 'true crime' ("I don't know how you can read made-up stuff")

* @hark87podcast.bsky.social

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