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The Juciest Racket In Town Needed Too Many Murders Two men are show and killed outside the Grand Cafe on Amsterdam Ave. There's no connection between 'em, but the widow of one hires Barney Harris, a 250-pound auto mechanic, to sniff out police corruption and find her husband's killer. First issued 1955. Also published as "Visa To Death.

1958 Edgar Award Winner. First appearance of Toussaint Moore, a black private investigator from New York, framed in his own city for a white man's murder. Moore ends up in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border, trying to prove his own innocence and dealing the attitudes of the time. Fascinating novel, written by Lacy (Len Zinberg), a politically active author from the '30s whose knowledge of the culture is derived from his marriage...

A tough, hard-hitting mystery of a hotheaded cop--and a cold-blooded killer! Leonard Zinberg, who as Ed Lacy was the famed creator of Toussaint Moore, one of the earliest African-American detectives, got his start in noir with books like this one, about being a copy and dedication to the job, damn it all. Nice effort first published in 1957.