Ed Lacy (August 25, 1911 - January 7, 1968), born Leonard S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Lacy, who was Euro-American, is credited with creating "the first credible African-American PI" character in fiction, Toussaint "Touie" Marcus Moore.[1] Room to Swing, his 1957 novel that introduced Touie Moore, received the 1958 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Biography

Lacy was born in New York City.[1] He 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.[2] He died of a heart attack in Harlem in 1968, at the age of 56.[1]

Bibliography

• Walk Hard, Talk Loud (1940)
• The Woman Aroused (1951)
• Sin in Their Blood (1952)
• Strip for Violence (1953)
• Enter Without Desire (1954)
• Go for the Body (1954)
• The Best That Ever Did It (also issued as Visa to Death) (1955)
• The Men from the Boys (1956)
• Lead with Your Left (1957)
• Room to Swing (1957)
• Breathe No More, My Lady (1958)
• Shakedown for Murder (1958)
• Be Careful How You Live (1959)
• Blonde Bait (1959)
• The Big Fix (1960)
• A Deadly Affair (1960)
• Bugged for Murder (1961)
• The Freeloaders (1961)
• South Pacific Affair (1961)
• The Sex Castle (also issued as Shoot It Again) (1963)
• Two Hot to Handle (two novellas: The Coin of Adventure and Murder in Paradise) (1963)
• Moment of Untruth (1964)
• Harlem Underground (1965)
• Pity the Honest (1965)
• The Hotel Dwellers (1966)
• Double Trouble (1967)
• In Black & Whitey (1967)
• The Napalm Bugle (1968)
• The Big Bust (1969)

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