The Best That Ever Did It

by Ed Lacy

Overview

Two seemingly unconnected men--one a recent winner of a contest and the other a police detective--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 corruption and find her husband's killer.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014147279
Publisher:	Smashbooks
Publication date:	09/25/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	382 KB

About the Author

Ed Lacy was born in New York City on August 25, 1911. Born Leonard "Len" S. Zinberg, he was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Room to Swing, his 1957 novel that introduced Touie Moore, received the 1958 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Lacy was a member of the League of American Writers, and served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact. He died of a heart attack in Harlem in 1968, at the age of 56.