The Lost Cases of Ed London (Signed/Limited Editon)

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1885941676 / ISBN 13: 9781885941671

Published by Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001

About this Item

Signed. Limited Edition. #249 of 650. Mylar protective cover. Unread, unclipped, and unmarked. Graded book as Near Fine as there is a slight wave to the text block. Else Fine. Additional images available upon request. (see attached photos).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1781140542794

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lost Cases of Ed London (Signed/Limited Editon)
• Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885941676
• ISBN 13: 9781885941671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 450 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

SIGNED, NUMBERED EDITION

Lawrence Block, creator of private eye Matthew Scudder and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, is one of the major figures in the modern mystery story, and a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.

But back in 1960, when he was still in his 20's, Block was trying to invent a series character. He had been hired to write a TV tie-in for a series called Markham, but he decided that the story was too good to waste on someone else's characters, and he turned the novel into the first of a series of Ed London, private eye.

Or at least he hoped it would be the first of a series. Block never completed another book about Ed London, but during 1962 and 1963 he published three novelettes about the character for Man's Magazine. Given the magazine that published them, the tales were filled not only with gunmen but also with stag-party girls — and Larry Block's expert storytelling.

When Block's early stories were collected as One Night Stands, the Ed London tales could not be found. In fact, the author was certainly that he had written one of them, thought that he might have done a second, and forgotten all about the third.

Here then, for the first time in book form, are the lost cases of Lawrence Block's first private eye—pipe-smoking, courvoisier-drinking, Mozart-loving but ultra-tough operative, Ed London.

FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION