Listen to Evan Hunter/Ed McBain talk about The Last Dance on January 18, 2000, at Le Meridien at Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, California.

Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #21

Los Angeles, California
July 7, 2005, 2005

by Marc Strassman
Reporter
Etopia Media Entertainment News Network
Etopia Media News Networks

Salvator Lombino, writing as "Ed McBain," invented the "station house procedural" and wrote more than 50 books in that genre.

Mr. Lombino, who also wrote prolifically under the name "Evan Hunter," died on July 6, 2005, of cancer of the larynx, at the age of 78.

Lombino/McBain/Hunter wrote the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the book upon which the 1955 movie classic The Blackboard Jungle was based.

The author sat down in a lounge at the Le Meridien at Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on January 18, 2000, and talked about The Last Dance, one of his last 87th Precinct books.

You can listen to a digitally-recorded audio version of that conversation by clicking here.

For more digitally-recorded audio interviews with authors of new (at the time) books, visit the Etopia Media Book World home page.