Ed Lacy
Birth date: August 25, 1911
Died: January 07, 1968
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It's a shame that this 1958 Edgar Award-winner for Best Novel isn't more popular than it is. It's a solid piece of detective fiction and one of the first novels to feature a black private detective as the main character. It's sort of a forerunner to the popular Easy Rawlins series. In the book, we f...
This is only the second book by Ed Lacy, which won an Edgar. The Men from the Boys fell a bit short of my expectations. You can read the other review if you want a plot summary, but I want to talk about my confusion at the resolution to the mystery, or lack thereof. Most mysteries explain the soluti...
a very slight collection with not a lot to recommend it. there is another solar pons story here "the amateur philologist" which taxed my ability to suspend disbelief: even the most inept police experts could not possibly be as stupid as this story would have one believe, and the central conceit is t...
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