Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Front flyleaf excised with light toning on pastedown endpapers, a bit of faint spotting at the foot of the spine, very good in a very good dust jacket with nicks and tears at the extremities, rubbing, and a small stain on the rear panel. Suspense novel about black private eye Toussaint Moore in dicey circumstances as he investigates in Southern Ohio and Kentucky. The 1958 Edgar Award winner for Best Novel. Ed Lacy was the pseudonym of Leonard S. Zinberg, who was white (but married to a black woman). Some of his work was published as being by a black man. He is credited with creating Moore as "the first credible African-American PI" character in fiction. The first edition is very uncommon.

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