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Evan Hunter: Works & Literary Connections
Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre.
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Evan Hunter topic overview
The analysis highlights Works and Literary Connections as prominent areas in the source structure around Evan Hunter.
Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
72
Extracted relationships
86
Concept neighborhoods
16
Bridge connections
72
What this topic covers Research coverage
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Works · 31 topics
Life · 27 topics
Overview · 11 topics
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Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Notable work
87th Precinct series
Born
Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-10-15)October 15, 1926 New York City, U.S.
Children
3 sons; 1 stepdaughter
Died
July 6, 2005(2005-07-06) (aged 78) Weston, Connecticut, U.S.
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How Evan Hunter connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Evan Hunter shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Evan Hunter → Apart, Barking, Bleeding, Butterflies, Curt Cannon, Ed McBain, Em Tough, Happy New Year, Herbie, Hunter, Hunter's, In, Includes, Kill, Learning, Legs, Like, Matt Cordell, On, Other Another extracted example is Evan Hunter → David Bianculli, Discussion, Ed McBain, Hunter, IMDbOfficial Evan Hunter Archived, Internet Book ListEvan Hunter, Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseWorks, Leonard Lopate, LibriVox, March, National Authors, NPR, Tour TV Series1995, Tour TV Series2001, Wayback Machine, WNYC. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Evan Hunter
Top relations
related to Short story collections· 38
Evan Hunter → Apart, Barking, Bleeding, Butterflies, Curt Cannon, Ed McBain, Em Tough, Happy New Year, Herbie, Hunter, Hunter's, In, Includes, Kill, Learning, Legs, Like, Matt Cordell, On, Other
related to External links· 16
Evan Hunter → David Bianculli, Discussion, Ed McBain, Hunter, IMDbOfficial Evan Hunter Archived, Internet Book ListEvan Hunter, Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseWorks, Leonard Lopate, LibriVox, March, National Authors, NPR, Tour TV Series1995, Tour TV Series2001, Wayback Machine, WNYC
related to Name change and pen names· 12
Evan Hunter → As Evan Hunter, Evander Childs High School, He, Hunt Collins, Hunter College, Lombino, May, New York City, Soon, The, The Blackboard Jungle, Thereafter
related to As editor· 4
Evan Hunter → Ed McBain, Stories, The Best American Mystery, Transgressions
Occupations· 3
Evan Hunter → Novelist, screenwriter, short story writer
related to Autobiographical· 3
Evan Hunter → Hitch, Let's Talk, Me
Born· 1
Evan Hunter → Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-10-15)October 15, 1926 New York City, U.S.
Children· 1
Evan Hunter → 3 sons; 1 stepdaughter
Died· 1
Evan Hunter → July 6, 2005(2005-07-06) (aged 78) Weston, Connecticut, U.S.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 86 structured relationships around Evan Hunter. Examples in this analysis include Evan Hunter → Born → Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-10-15)October 15, 1926 New York City, U.S. and Evan Hunter → Children → 3 sons; 1 stepdaughter. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Object
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Evan Hunter
Born
Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-10-15)October 15, 1926 New York City, U.S.
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Evan Hunter
Children
3 sons; 1 stepdaughter
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Evan Hunter
Died
July 6, 2005(2005-07-06) (aged 78) Weston, Connecticut, U.S.
John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Ed McBain, Richard Marsten
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Evan Hunter
Period
1951–2005
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Evan Hunter
Spouse(s)
Anita Melnick, 1949 (divorced) Mary Vann Finley, 1973 (divorced) Dragica Dimitrijevic, 1997 (until his death)
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Poul Anderson
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working with authors
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Evan Hunter bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Hunter, Stories and Lombino. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Evan Hunter
Hunter
Stories
Lombino
Crime
Novels
Ed
Fiction
Name
Hunter's
Mcbain
Novel
Published
evan hunter
Hunter
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Mcbain
Lombino
Crime
Novels
Name
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Hunter's
Novel
Richard
crime
Fiction
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Series
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Curt
Ed
Hunt
Mcbain
Hunter
Novel
Cannon
Collins
mystery fiction
Used
Hunter
Richard
Marsten
Mcbain
Name
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Ed
Novels
Also
Curt
Hunt
87th precinct
Precinct
Ed
Mcbain
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Novels
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Name
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Hunter's
Marsten
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pen name
Collins
Hunt
Cannon
Marsten
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Film
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Novels
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Precinct
1955 film of the same name
Published
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Ed
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Precinct
Mcbain
genre fiction
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Evan Hunter, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Evan Hunter with Works. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Evan Hunter
Nodes73
Edges72
Triples86
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Evan Hunter to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works & Literary Connections, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
