{"product_id":"lead-with-your-left-a-hardboiled-david-wintino-crime-novel-paperback","title":"Lead With Your Left: A Hardboiled David Wintino Crime Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Lacy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLead With Your Left\u003c\/em\u003e is Ed Lacy's hardboiled police novel of murder, pressure, and dogged investigation in mid-century New York.\u003c\/strong\u003e David Wintino, a young NYPD detective, is drawn into the killing of a former policeman, a case that refuses to stay simple as it opens onto old grudges, hidden motives, and the difficult work behind every apparently straightforward crime. Lacy gives the police procedural a hardboiled edge: street detail, bruised humour, stubborn digging, and a world where violence leaves more questions than answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1957, \u003cem\u003eLead With Your Left\u003c\/em\u003e introduced David Wintino and belongs naturally beside Lacy's other crime novels, including \u003cem\u003eRoom to Swing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Best That Ever Did It\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBreathe No More, My Lady\u003c\/em\u003e. Contemporary catalogue descriptions identify the book as a classic hardboiled crime novel following a young NYPD detective over the course of a week in his hunt for the killer of two retired policemen. Lacy's fiction is lean, urban, and socially alert, with crime treated less as a puzzle than as pressure applied to ordinary people, institutions, and loyalties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of hardboiled detective fiction, vintage police procedurals, New York crime novels, paperback noir, and mid-century American mystery, \u003cem\u003eLead With Your Left\u003c\/em\u003e is a sharp, compact example of Ed Lacy's crime writing: tough, observant, and built around the slow, unglamorous labour of finding what the killer tried to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50374243451117,"sku":"9781627555531","price":25.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/yFzjcDLCHO9781627555531.webp?v=1785541565","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/lead-with-your-left-a-hardboiled-david-wintino-crime-novel-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}