Murder by Definition

About the author

Con Lehane is a mystery writer, living in Washington, DC. He is the author of the 42nd Street Library mysteries, featuring Raymond Ambler, curator of the library's (fictional) crime fiction collection. He's also the author of three mysteries featuring New York City bartender Brian McNulty, and has published short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

Over the years, he has been a college professor, union organizer and labor journalist, and has tended bar at two-dozen or so drinking establishments. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts and teaches writing at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Summary

When Ray Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library, buys the archive of a disgraced hardboiled crime writer, he expects controversy - and he soon gets it. But what he doesn't expect is to find an unpublished short story that implies a dirty cop has got away with murder: in real life, not just in fiction ...

Product details

• Authors: Con Lehane, Lehane Con
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2022
• EAN: 9780727850898
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-5089-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: 42nd Street Library Mystery; A 42nd Street Library Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; New York, New York City, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, 21st Century, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, c 2020 to c 2029