Monday, 9 November 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FIFTY-FOUR

Ed McBain was having a party all by his lonesome, until along comes Marcia Muller and crashes it,

Probably no need for any captions, suffice to say my shaky camera hand is ...... err, shaky, oh and watch out for those shadows...





























Ed 49 Marcia 1.... mostly 87th Precinct books with a sprinkling of his Matthew Hope Florida set lawyerly tales.

HIGHLIGHTS... Ed McBain

LOWLIGHTS..... Ed McBain - harking back to my Economics A-Level was it Keynes who espoused the theory of diminishing returns? Nah.......Adam Smith among others (the power of Google!)

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
McBAIN ED COP HATER 1956 87P1 F
McBAIN ED THE MUGGER 1956 87P2 F
McBAIN ED THE PUSHER 1956 87P3 F
McBAIN ED THE CONMAN 1957 87P4 F
McBAIN ED KILLER'S CHOICE 1957 87P5 F
McBAIN ED KILLER'S PAYOFF 1958 87P6 F
McBAIN ED KILLER'S WEDGE 1958 87P7 F
McBAIN ED LADY KILLER 1958 87P8 F
McBAIN ED KING'S RANSOM 1959 87P10 F
McBAIN ED TIL DEATH 1959 87P9 F
McBAIN ED GIVE THE BOYS A GREAT BIG HAND 1960 87P11 F
McBAIN ED THE HECKLER 1960 87P12 F
McBAIN ED SEE THEM DIE 1960 87P13 F
McBAIN ED LADY, LADY, I DID IT! 1960 87P14 F
McBAIN ED THE EMPTY HOURS 1960 87P15 F
McBAIN ED LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE DEAF MAN 1961 87P27 F
McBAIN ED LIKE LOVE 1962 87P16 F
McBAIN ED TEN PLUS ONE 1963 87P17 F
McBAIN ED AXE 1963 87P18 F
McBAIN ED HE WHO HESITATES 1965 87P19 F
McBAIN ED DOLL 1965 87P20 F
McBAIN ED EIGHTY MILLION EYES 1966 87P21 F
McBAIN ED FUZZ 1968 87P22 F
McBAIN ED SHOTGUN 1968 87P23 F
McBAIN ED JIGSAW 1970 87P24 F
McBAIN ED HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HERE 1971 87P25 F
McBAIN ED SADIE WHEN SHE DIED 1972 87P26 F
McBAIN ED HAIL TO THE CHIEF 1973 87P28 F
McBAIN ED BREAD 1974 87P29 F
McBAIN ED BLOOD RELATIVES 1975 87P30 F
McBAIN ED SO LONG AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE 1976 87P31 F
McBAIN ED LONG TIME NO SEE 1977 87P32 F
McBAIN ED GOLDILOCKS 1977 MH1 F
McBAIN ED CALYPSO 1979 87P33 F
McBAIN ED GHOSTS 1980 87P34 F
McBAIN ED HEAT 1981 87P35 F
McBAIN ED RUMPELSTILTSKIN 1981 MH2 F
McBAIN ED JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 1981 MH4 F
McBAIN ED ICE 1983 87P36 F
McBAIN ED POISON 1987 87P39 F
McBAIN ED THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 1988 MH8 F
McBAIN ED LULLABY  1989 87P41 F
McBAIN ED VESPERS 1989 87P42 F
McBAIN ED KISS 1992 87P44 F
McBAIN ED MISCHIEF 1993 87P45 F
McBAIN ED ROMANCE 1995 87P47 F
McBAIN ED THE LAST BEST HOPE 1998 MH13 F
McBAIN ED THE BIG BAD CITY 1999 87P49 F
McBAIN ED MONEY, MONEY, MONEY 2001 87P51 F
MULLER MARCIA THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF 1985 SM6 F

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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 November 2015 at 04:17

    I think McBain's worth a tub or two, Col. I think it's great you have so many of his novels. And there are much worse party-crashers than Marcia Muller. You've got some good stuff there, I think.

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    1. col29109 November 2015 at 05:12

      Well at least I have read and enjoyed a couple of McBain books, so its not as if I have taken a huge blind punt on his work and judging by the size of the books, if I was retired I could read these in 50 days. So there's a kind of method in my squirrel-magpie like madness!

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  2. Prashant C. Trikannad10 November 2015 at 09:09

    Looks like a McBain festival, Col! As Margot says, definitely worth a large tub. I have some of these titles too and they still remain unread.

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    1. col291010 November 2015 at 11:06

      I'm not the only one then Prashant - good to know!

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  3. TracyK10 November 2015 at 19:36

    I am envious, I have a good number of Ed McBain novels but nothing like this.

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    1. col291010 November 2015 at 20:55

      I bought a job lot on e-bay a few years ago and have tried to fill the gaps in the meantime. I don't have the complete series, but I think I might have enough to get me started.....

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  4. Clothes In Books12 November 2015 at 13:24

    I've never even seen that many McBain books in a bookshop...

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