PaperBack: “Moment of Untruth”

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider.



Moment of Untruth, by “Ed Lacy,” aka Leonard S. Zinberg (Lancer, 1967). As blogger J.F. Norris explains, this is “a sequel of sorts” to 1957’s Edgar Award-winning Room to Swing, which introduced Black New York City private eye Toussaint “Touie” Moore. And, as The Thrilling Detective Web Site’s Kevin Burton Smith writes, Moment “is almost as good” as its predecessor.

Cover illustration by Robert K. Abbett.