Ed Lacy

• 1958
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"This 1958 Edgar Award winner for best novel from Lacy (1911â€"1968) masterfully combines a classic genre trope with a powerful depiction of the impact of racism in 1950s America." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Though private invest...

• Apr-2005
• / Thriller
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Lead With Your Left, first published in 1957, is a classic hard-boiled crime novel, and follows a young NYPD detective over the course of a week in his hunt for the killer of two retired policemen. Author Ed Lacy (a pseudonym for Leonard Zinberg, 191...

• Jul-2005
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Marty Bond Was Rotten To The Core A few years back, he had been a famous cop in New York. Not a gentle or an honest cop. But he caught thieves and killers, and he was feared. Fired From The Force He became a house dick in a ratty hotel. He started sl...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder. The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would enjoy tracking her down, and Hal Darling was no ex...

• Feb-2007
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3 women can make a mess out of a man's life.

The Right One -- Michele, the dark-eyed French beauty who looked like she had just stepped out of a European movie.

The Wrong One -- Wilma, the red-headed temptress who came alon...

• Nov-2009
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Here was an opportunity he couldn't refuse. One of Lacy's best boxing novels....

• Nov-2009
• / Thriller
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Two crooked cops, a red-hot blonde, and a million in cold cash!...

• Nov-2009
• / Thriller
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I sat there, waiting in this dull Bronx back yard, the gun in my right pocket, safety off. It was simple... wait till he was on top of me, one shot in the heart... then run across the lot to the car. Sid had an ordinary looking heap; nobody would not...

• Nov-2009
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• Nov-2009
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Clayton Biner had it all-swimming pools in California, haciendas in Mexico, blue evenings on the French Riviera, all the women he could use. But he wanted more. And he got it when he became involved with a vicious syndicate peddling heroin-the big H,...

• Nov-2009
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South Pacific Affair, first published in 1960, is a novel set in Tahiti and centers on a romance between a simple island girl and an American man. While trying to create a new life together, the past keeps returning to haunt the pair and their idylli...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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What child doesn’t like spaceships and astronauts? Their imagination can be allowed to run wild as they dream about flying through the stars, visiting strange planets and meeting new and interesting aliens. Now your children can learn and have fun ...

• Jan-2012
• / Mystery
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The exotic French Riviera forms the backdrop for this tale for four American expats, scraping by and often slipping over the edge to criminal mischief, just to survive. A great read by one of the masters of hardboiled mystery -- though this one is de...

• Jan-2012
• / Mystery
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Two books in one!Murder in Paradise and The Coin of Adventure''What is the meaning of 'whore?''' Ruita asked in Tahitian, anger rising in her voice.I didn't hear an answer because just then a hell of a fracas broke out at the poolside. Ruita and Kitt...

• Apr-2012
• / Mystery
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He pulled her to him in a fierce, sweaty embrace, and breathed into her parted lips. Set it up for me to see them, honey. Do it for me and I'll... take care of you...The set-up was cash - enough cash to kill for. But something went terribly wrong. An...

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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Two seemingly unconnected men--one a recent winner of a contest and the other a police detectiv--are both gunned down on the same evening. The widow of one hires Barney Harris, an auto mechanic who does detective work on the side, to sniff out police...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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She had to buy protection--and her payment was her body. A hard-boiled crime novel by Ed Lacy....

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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It was my first day in Paris but the feeling was still with me: like I was getting ready to explode, as if my guts were a lit fuse racing up to my brain. Being cooped up gets me that way, although I was camped in a big room in this swank hotel. Twelv...

• Apr-2013
• / Suspense
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Originally published in 1952. An open and shut case of murder! Matt Ranzino had sworn off sleuthing; he'd had a bellyful of violence. But when a beautiful blonde was murdered and Matt was asked to solve the crime, he took the job. When the blonde's h...

• Jun-2013
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I'm George Jackson. And this began about the time when you could still remember getting on the subway for a nickel, people were just starting to worry about the water shortage, and the current expression making the rounds was, "How corny can you get?...

• Apr-2014
• / Hard-Boiled
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• Jan-2019
• / Mystery
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LEAD WITH YOUR LEFTDave Wintino is the youngest homicide cop on the force, and is constantly getting ribbed for it. When an ex-cop named Owens is found murdered while delivering some for a bond company, no one takes Wintino seriously when he suggests...

• May-2023
• / General Fiction
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A mini-masterpiece...this book is really something special, Paperback WarriorIt's 1957. Lester Red Dolsan is a former first baseman, now a talent scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who is haunted by the suicide of his alcoholic wife...and the discovery ...

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