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Ed McBain Books in Order
Every Ed McBain book in publication order — 148 in total, spanning 1952–2016.
Publication Order of 87th Precinct Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cop Hater | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Mugger | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Pusher | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Con Man | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Killer's Choice | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Killer's Payoff | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Lady Killer | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Killer's Wedge | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Til Death | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  King's Ransom | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Give the Boys a Great Big Hand | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  The Heckler | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  See Them Die | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  Lady, Lady, I Did It! | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  The Empty Hours | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Like Love | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  Ten Plus One | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  Ax | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  He Who Hesitates | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  Doll | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 |  Eighty Million Eyes | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 |  Fuzz | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 |  Shotgun | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 |  Jigsaw | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 |  Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 |  Sadie When She Died | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 |  Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 |  Hail to the Chief | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 |  Bread | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 |  Blood Relatives | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 |  So Long as You Both Shall Live | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 |  Long Time No See | 1977 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 |  Calypso | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 |  Ghosts | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 |  Heat | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 |  McBain Brief | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 |  Ice | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 |  Lightning | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 |  And All Through The House | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 |  Eight Black Horses | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 |  Poison | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 |  Lullaby | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 |  Vespers | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 |  Tricks | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 |  Widows | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 |  Kiss | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 |  Mischief | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 |  Romance | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 |  Nocturne | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 |  The Big Bad City | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 |  The Last Dance | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 |  Money, Money, Money | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 |  Fat Ollie's Book | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 |  The Frumious Bandersnatch | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 |  Hark! | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 |  Fiddlers | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Matthew Hope Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Goldilocks | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Rumpelstiltskin | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Beauty And The Beast | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Jack and the Beanstalk | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Snow White and Rose Red | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Cinderella | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Puss in Boots | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The House That Jack Built | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Three Blind Mice | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Mary, Mary | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  There Was A Little Girl | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  The Last Best Hope | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Transgressions | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Transgressions, Vol. 2 | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danger: Dinosaurs! | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Don't Crowd Me | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Rocket To Luna | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Cut Me In | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Runaway Black | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Blackboard Jungle | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Death of a Nurse | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Murder in the Navy | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Tomorrow's World | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Second Ending | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Vanishing Ladies | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Spiked Heel | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  The April Robin Murders | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Strangers When We Met | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Even the Wicked | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  The Gutter and the Grave | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  A Matter of Conviction | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Big Man | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Buddwing | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  The Sentries | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 |  The Paper Dragon | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | A Horse's Head | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 |  Last Summer | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 |  Sons | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 |  Nobody Knew They Were There | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Every Little Crook and Nanny | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 |  Seven | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 |  Come Winter | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 |  Streets of Gold | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 |  Doors | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 |  Where There's Smoke | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 |  Guns | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 |  The Chisholms | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 |  Mothers and daughters | 1977 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 |  Love Dad | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 |  Far from the Sea | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 |  Lizzie | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 |  Another Part Of The City | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 |  Downtown | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 |  Gangs! | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 |  Scimitar | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 |  Criminal Conversation | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 |  Privileged Conversation | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 |  Driving Lessons | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 |  Candyland | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 |  The Moment She Was Gone | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 |  Alice In Jeopardy | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 |  So Nude, So Dead | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Runaway | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Children's Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Find the Feathered Serpent | 1952 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Remarkable Harry | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Wonderful Button, The | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Me and Mr. Stenner | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Let's Talk | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The McBain Brief | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Barking at Butterflies | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Running from Legs and Other Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Learning to Kill | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Transgressions | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Keller's Adjustment; Forever | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | I Like 'Em Tough | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The April Robin Murders | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  City Sleuths and Tough Guys | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Crime After Crime | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Dangerous Women | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Transgressions | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Books to Die For | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 148, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find the Feathered Serpent | 1952 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Danger: Dinosaurs! | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Don't Crowd Me | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Rocket To Luna | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Cut Me In | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Runaway Black | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Blackboard Jungle | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Death of a Nurse | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Murder in the Navy | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Cop Hater | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | The Mugger | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Pusher | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Tomorrow's World | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Second Ending | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | The Con Man | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Killer's Choice | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Vanishing Ladies | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | The Spiked Heel | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Killer's Payoff | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Lady Killer | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Killer's Wedge | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The April Robin Murders | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Strangers When We Met | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Even the Wicked | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | The Gutter and the Grave | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | The April Robin Murders | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Til Death | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | King's Ransom | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | A Matter of Conviction | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | Big Man | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | Give the Boys a Great Big Hand | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | The Heckler | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | See Them Die | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Lady, Lady, I Did It! | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | The Remarkable Harry | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | Wonderful Button, The | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | The Empty Hours | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Like Love | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Ten Plus One | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | Ax | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Buddwing | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | He Who Hesitates | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Doll | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | The Sentries | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | Eighty Million Eyes | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | The Paper Dragon | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | A Horse's Head | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | Fuzz | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Shotgun | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | Last Summer | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | Sons | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Jigsaw | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | Nobody Knew They Were There | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | Sadie When She Died | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | Every Little Crook and Nanny | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | Seven | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | Hail to the Chief | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | Come Winter | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | Bread | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | Streets of Gold | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | Blood Relatives | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | Doors | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 65 | Where There's Smoke | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 66 | So Long as You Both Shall Live | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 67 | Goldilocks | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 68 | Guns | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 69 | The Chisholms | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 70 | Me and Mr. Stenner | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 71 | Long Time No See | 1977 | Amazon US UK |
| 72 | Mothers and daughters | 1977 | Amazon US UK |
| 73 | Calypso | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 74 | Ghosts | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 75 | Heat | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 76 | Rumpelstiltskin | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 77 | Love Dad | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 78 | McBain Brief | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 79 | Beauty And The Beast | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 80 | Far from the Sea | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 81 | The McBain Brief | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 82 | Ice | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 83 | Lightning | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 84 | And All Through The House | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 85 | Jack and the Beanstalk | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 86 | Lizzie | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 87 | Eight Black Horses | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 88 | Snow White and Rose Red | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 89 | Cinderella | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 90 | Another Part Of The City | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 91 | Poison | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 92 | Puss in Boots | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 93 | The House That Jack Built | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 94 | Lullaby | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 95 | Vespers | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 96 | Tricks | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 97 | Downtown | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 98 | Gangs! | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 99 | City Sleuths and Tough Guys | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 100 | Three Blind Mice | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 101 | Widows | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 102 | Mary, Mary | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 103 | Kiss | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 104 | Scimitar | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 105 | Mischief | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 106 | There Was A Little Girl | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 107 | Criminal Conversation | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 108 | Romance | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 109 | Privileged Conversation | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 110 | Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 111 | The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 112 | Nocturne | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 113 | The Big Bad City | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 114 | The Last Best Hope | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 115 | Driving Lessons | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 116 | The Last Dance | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 117 | Crime After Crime | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 118 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 119 | Candyland | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 120 | Barking at Butterflies | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 121 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 122 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 123 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 124 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 125 | Money, Money, Money | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 126 | Fat Ollie's Book | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 127 | The Moment She Was Gone | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 128 | Running from Legs and Other Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 129 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 130 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 131 | The Frumious Bandersnatch | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 132 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 133 | Hark! | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 134 | Alice In Jeopardy | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 135 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 136 | Fiddlers | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 137 | Let's Talk | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 138 | Dangerous Women | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 139 | Transgressions | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 140 | Transgressions | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 141 | Transgressions, Vol. 2 | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 142 | Learning to Kill | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 143 | Transgressions | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 144 | Keller's Adjustment; Forever | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 145 | Books to Die For | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 146 | So Nude, So Dead | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 147 | Runaway | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 148 | I Like 'Em Tough | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
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