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Lead With Your Left: A Hardboiled David Wintino Crime Novel
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515424390
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lead With Your Left is Ed Lacy's hardboiled police novel of murder, pressure, and dogged investigation in mid-century New York. David Wintino, a young NYPD detective, is drawn into the killing of a former policeman, a case that refuses to stay simple as it opens onto old grudges, hidden motives, and the difficult work behind every apparently straightforward crime. Lacy gives the police procedural a hardboiled edge: street detail, bruised humour, stubborn digging, and a world where violence leaves more questions than answers.
First published in 1957, Lead With Your Left introduced David Wintino and belongs naturally beside Lacy's other crime novels, including Room to Swing, The Best That Ever Did It, and Breathe No More, My Lady. Contemporary catalogue descriptions identify the book as a classic hardboiled crime novel following a young NYPD detective over the course of a week in his hunt for the killer of two retired policemen. Lacy's fiction is lean, urban, and socially alert, with crime treated less as a puzzle than as pressure applied to ordinary people, institutions, and loyalties.
For readers of hardboiled detective fiction, vintage police procedurals, New York crime novels, paperback noir, and mid-century American mystery, Lead With Your Left is a sharp, compact example of Ed Lacy's crime writing: tough, observant, and built around the slow, unglamorous labour of finding what the killer tried to hide.
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