10 best-paid American mystery writers

9. Ed McBain, $75 million

Ed McBain was a pen name for Evan Hunter, author of the highly successful 87th Precinct crime novels, which detail the work of the police detectives of the 87th Precinct in the fictional city of Isola (a stand-in for the borough of Manhattan). Hunter died in 2005.

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