 A tie-in collection of short stories was written to capitalize on the success of the TV series; it was titled "The Naked City" and was published as a mass-market paperback by Dell in 1959.While it was credited on the book's cover solely to series creator Stirling Silliphant, it actually consisted of writer and newspaperman Charles Einstein's prose adaptations of eight Silliphant stories from the series' first season of half-hour episodes.Einstein is the half-brother of comedian Albert Brooks.