The Frumious Bandersnatch (33 page)

Ed McBain is the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. He also holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award. His most recent 87
^th
Precinct novel was
Fat Ollie's Book.
Under his own name—Evan Hunter—he has enjoyed a writing career that has spanned five decades, from his first novel,
The Blackboard Jungle,
in 1954, to the screenplay for Alfred Hitch-cock's
The Birds,
to
Candyland,
written in tandem with his alter ego, Ed McBain, to
The Moment She Was Gone,
pubjlished in 2002.

Cop Hater • The Mugger • The Pusher (1956) The Con Man • Killer's Choice (1957) Killer's Payoff • Lady Killer (1958) Killer's Wedge • 'Til Death • King's Ransom (1959) Give the Boys a Great Big Hand • The Heckler • See Them Die (1960) Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961) The Empty Hours • Like Love (1962) Ten Plus One (1963) Ax (1964) He Who Hesitates • Doll (1965) Eighty Million Eyes (1966) Fuzz (1968) Shotgun (1969) Jigsaw (1970) Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (1971) Sadie When She Died (1972) Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man • Hail to the Chief (1973) Bread (1974) Blood Relatives (1975) So Long As You Both Shall Live (1976) Long Time No See (1977) Calypso (1979) Ghosts (1980) Heat (1981) Ice (1983) Lightning (1984) Eight Black Horses (1985) Poison • Tricks (1987) Lullaby (1989) Vespers (1990) Widows (1991) Kiss (1992) Mischief (1993) And All Through the House (1994) Romance (1995) Nocturne (1997) The Big Bad City (1999) The Last Dance (2000) Money, Money, Money (2001) Fat Ollie's Book (2003)

Goldilocks (1978) Rumpelstiltskin (1981) Beauty and the Beast (1982) Jack and the Beanstalk (1984) Snow White and Rose Red (1985) Cinderella (1986) Puss in Boots (1987) The House That Jack Built (1988) Three Blind Mice (1990) Mary, Mary (1993) There Was a Little Girl (1994) Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996) The Last Best Hope (1998)

The Sentries (1965) Where There's Smoke • Doors (1975) Guns (1976) Another Part of the City (1986) Downtown (1991) Driving Lessons (2000) Candyland (2001)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McBain, Ed
The frumious bandersnatch : a novel of the 87th Precinct / Ed McBain.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5388-8
ISBN-10: 0-7432-5388-4
1. 87th Precinct (Imaginary place)--Fiction. 2. Police--United States--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3515.U585F78 2004
813'.54--dc21
2003057258

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