Ed Lacy

Un roman noir aussi précurseur que son auteur. Engagé comme détective pour retrouver l'auteur d'un crime oublié dont l'arrestation constitue le clou d'une émission de téléréalité à gros budget, Toussaint Marcus... Lire la suite

Alors qu'il pensait vite élucider l'enquête sur un assassinat à Mexico, le détective afro américain Toussaint Marcus Moore découvre à ses risques et périls une affaire d'une toute autre ampleur... Toussaint... Lire la suite

Née dans l'immédiat après-guerre, la collection Un Mystère des Presses de la Cité rassembla, sous les couvertures marquées d'un petit éléphant lecteur, les auteurs phares du roman policier moderne. Peter Cheyney, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen,... Lire la suite

Toussaint Marcus Moore, détective afro-américain, accepte une mission à Mexico où il débarque pour tirer au clair la demande d’une jeune veuve qui veut la preuve que son mari a été assassiné par un toréro célèbre surnommé El Indio. L’enquête l... Lire la suite

Le héros de Traquenoir est un Afro-Américain nommé Toussaint Marcus Moore. Engagé comme détective pour retrouver l’auteur d’un crime oublié dont l’arrestation constitue le clou d’une émission de téléréalité à gros budget, il doit pister un pauvre... Lire la suite

Lead With Your Left, first published in 1957, is a classic hard-boiled crime novel, and follows a young NYPD detective over the course of a week in his hunt for the killer of two retired policemen. Author Ed Lacy (a pseudonym for Leonard Zinberg,... Lire la suite

South Pacific Affair, first published in 1960, is a novel set in Tahiti and centers on a romance between a simple island girl and an American man. While trying to create a new life together, the past keeps returning to haunt the pair and their... Lire la suite

He pulled her to him in a fierce, sweaty embrace, and breathed into her parted lips. Set it up for me to see them, honey. Do it for me and I'll... take care of you... The set-up was cash - enough cash to kill for. But something went terribly wrong.... Lire la suite

I sat there, waiting in this dull Bronx back yard, the gun in my right pocket, safety off. It was simple... wait till he was on top of me, one shot in the heart... then run across the lot to the car. Sid had an ordinary looking heap; nobody would... Lire la suite

She had to buy protection --- and her payment was her body. A hard-boiled crime novel by Ed Lacy.

Two seemingly unconnected men--one a recent winner of a contest and the other a police detective--are both gunned down on the same evening. The widow of one hires Barney Harris, an auto mechanic who does detective work on the side, to sniff out... Lire la suite

They were grandstand observers, living the free and easy life: Charley Martins, ex-pug turned remittance man, whose apartment was wired against intruders; Pascale, 18, ash-blonde, better looking than Bardot, a sex-kitten who worked in her father’s... Lire la suite

Two books in one! Murder in Paradise and The Coin of Adventure ''What is the meaning of 'whore?''' Ruita asked in Tahitian, anger rising in her voice. I didn't hear an answer because just then a hell of a fracas broke out at the poolside. Ruita and... Lire la suite

A Double Murder–without a single motive.
They lay dead outside the bar–a tough cop and a real nothing guy who had just won a thousand bucks in a slogan contest. “It was a crazy killing. My job was to whistle up the murderer. The dead cop’s wife... Lire la suite

Two crooked cops, a red-hot blonde, and a million in cold cash!

Three women can make a mess out of a man's life. The Right One—Michele, the dark-eyed French beauty who looked like she had just stepped out of a European movie. The Wrong One—Wilma, the red-headed temptress who came along at the wrong time with... Lire la suite