LAWRENCE TREAT

'Lawrence Arthur Goldstone' (1903 - 1998), better known by his pseudonym, 'Lawrence Treat', was an American mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. A practicing lawyer before turning to writing, he was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and a two-time winner of the MWA's Edgar Award. His first award came in 1965, for the short story "H as in Homicide"; his second was a Special Edgar Award in 1978 for editing a new edition of the ''Mystery Writer's Handbook'', the MWA's guide for aspiring mystery writers, first published in 1956.

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Selected works

Selected works

★ ''Run Far, Run Fast'' (1937)

★ ''B as in Banshee'' (1940)

★ ''D as in Dead'' (1941)

★ ''H as in Hangman'' (1942)

★ ''O as in Omen'' (1943)

★ ''Wail for the Corpses'' (1943)

★ ''Leather Man'' (1944)

★ ''V as in Victim'' (1945)

★ ''H as in Hunted'' (1946)

★ ''Q as in Quicksand'' (1947)

★ ''T as in Trapped'' (1947)

★ ''F as in Flight'' (1948)

★ ''Over the Edge'' (1948)

★ ''Trial and Error'' (1949)

★ ''Big Shot'' (1951)

★ ''Lady, Drop Dead'' (1960)

★ ''Venus Unarmed'' (1961)

★ ''P as in Police'' (edited by Ellery Queen) (1970)