β Scribed by Les Edgerton
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A bomb hooked to a bankers back, a one-eyed busted-out former cop, hooker/biker bars on Airline Highway in New Orleans, drugs in the French Quarter, a 300-pound female bartender, an ex-con whose main goal in life is to have more expensive shoes than anyone else, a drug czar named Fidel Castro (a cousin of the more famous one in Cuba), money laundering schemes, and a criminal genius, who enjoys pulling his victims fingernails out with pliers and who did everything right in what should have been the perfect crime save for one tiny mistakeall assembled and put into motion by an author who was a real-life criminal and ex-con and was advised that if he didnt publish this book but instead used it to create the perfect crime hed make a lot more This is what you get (and more) in Les Edgertons The Perfect Crime.
Ex-con Les Edgerton has thirteen books in print, with several more forthcoming. Since his prison days, he has earned a B.A. from Indiana University and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. His work has been nominated for or won several awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award (Short story category), Pushcart Prize, the Violet Crown Book Award, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award and others. A story of his was included in the Houghton-Mifflin Best American Mystery Stories 2001. He is Editor-at-Large for Noir Nation.
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