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Ed Lacy


Born
in New York, The United States
August 25, 1911

Died
January 07, 1968

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories, Sports


Ed Lacy was the pseudonymn of Leonard (Len) S Zinberg, who was born in New York City on 25 August 1925. After his mother and father had divorced and his mother remarried, he spent his early years living in relative affluence in the outskirts of Harlem.

During the late 1920s, he attended the College of the City of New York and then, in the 1930s he travelled throughout the United States where he had a variety of odd jobs, including working as a butcher, to support himself. In the early 1940s, he returned to New York, where he married and resided for the rest of his life.

Back in New York, he was a freelance writer and some of his early published work emerged in literary journals, such as a short story titled 'A Leaner' in 'Story Magazine' in ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 1,157 ratings · 212 reviews · 102 distinct works • Similar authors
Room to Swing (Toussaint Mo...
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Strip for Violence
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Blonde Bait
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The Woman Aroused
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The Men from the Boys
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Sin in Their Blood
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Lead With Your Left
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The Best That Ever Did It
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Series by Ed Lacy

Room to Swing Moment of Untruth
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Lead With Your Left Double Trouble
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Harlem Underground In Black and Whitey
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“True, but at least you have more room to swing. Maybe this Thomas swung too wide?”
― Ed Lacy, Room to Swing
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“Wales smiled sadly. “Dig, dig, clear every little detail, that’s a detective’s life. A crime is like an iceberg, one-tenth showing and nine-tenths hidden.”
― Ed Lacy, Lead With Your Left
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“about the scatter pins she was wearing, my “make-up gift,” being half a”
― Ed Lacy, The Woman Aroused
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