Ed Lacy

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"Ed Lacy" is a pseudonym of author Leonard "Len" S. Zinberg, an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Leonard S. Zinberg, known as Len, was born in 1911 in upstate New York to Max and Elizabeth Zinberg, attended City College of New York, and in the early 1930s traveled across the country. He was a working-class Jewish Communist from Manhattan. Zinberg published only three novels under his own name, but after his death in 1968, the New York Times reported that the detective action he wrote under the name Ed Lacy had sold 28 million copies. The firrst Ed Lacy novel, The Woman Aroused, appeared in 1951.

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Breathe No More My Lady
Representative edition published 2007
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Strip for Violence
Representative edition published 2007
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Lead With Your Left
Representative edition published 2005
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The Best That Ever Did It
Representative edition published 2005
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Room to Swing
Representative edition published 2005
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The Men from the Boys
Representative edition published 2005
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Polars, années cinquante
Representative edition published 1995
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The big bust
Representative edition published 1970
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Visa to Death
Representative edition published 1968
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Breathe No More, My Lady
Representative edition published 1958
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Room to swing
Representative edition published 1957
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Lead with Your Left
Representative edition published 1957
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Sin in their blood
Representative edition published 1952
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Sin in Their Blood
Representative edition published 2021
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HISTOIRES A FAIRE DRESSER LES CHEVEUX SUR LA TETE - Stories to Make the Hair Stand Up on Your Head
Representative edition published 1985
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The woman aroused
Representative edition published 1969
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The hotel dwellers
Representative edition published 1968
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Sleep in thunder
Representative edition published 1964
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Sleep in thunder
Representative edition published 1964
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Blonde bait
Representative edition published 1959
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Shakedown for murder
Representative edition published 1958
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The Best That Ever Did It
Representative edition published 1955
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