-RARE Vintage Paperback- Runaway Black | Gold Medal PBO | Richard Marsten

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-RARE Vintage Paperback- Runaway Black | Gold Medal PBO | Richard Marsten:
$22.00

Item Description: Gold Medal Paperback Original #415, New York, 1954. Soft Cover. 1st Printing (1st Ed.). Pictorial wraps with white & black lettering & cover art by Lu Kimmel picturing a guy reaching a hand through a door on a chain behind which a frightened brunette is pressed. Mystery, Vintage Paperback. Condition as shown in photos.

Richard Marsten (aka. Ed McBain) is the pseudonym prolific American novelist Evan Hunter (1926-2005) is perhaps best known as. He was born Salvatore Lombino in New York City and had his name legally changed to Evan Hunter in 1952. Besides Hunter and McBain, he also used several other pseudonyms, including Richard Marsten, Hunt Collins, Curt Cannon, Ezra Hannon and John Abbott.

McBain started writing way back in 1952 and had books continually published until his death in 2005. His bibliography covers a wide array of genres. Aside from novels, he also penned several short story collections, two autobiographies, plus numerous plays, screenplays and teleplays.