Bill wrote
> It's hard to tell about Ed Lacy. He was one of those
very
> uneven writers. He was also one of the first to use
black
> protagonists in mystery fiction. Check out ROOM TO
SWING,
> which won the "best novel" Edgar,
I really liked Room To Swing when I read it ten years or so
back. So much so that when Maxim Jakubowski asked me to
contribute as piece to a book called
(IIRC) 100 Great Detectives - and realising that all the
obvous choices had already been taken - I ended up writing a
piece on its protagonist, Toussaint Marcus Moore. Moment of
Untruth, the sequel, isn't bad either. Nor is the cop novel
Jim Doherty mentioned, Harlem Underground - something of a
companion piece to John A. Williams' blakc panther novel,
Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light.. I've also read at least one
Lacy set amongst beatnik folk. Definitely a writer it would
be good to know more about.
John
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