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I loved this book. Fast-paced action, great sex scenes, and an unforgettable setting. Hector Lassiter never lets me down - Craig McDonald makes sure of that. Highly recommended!......more

A handful of mystery writers, including Max Allan Collins with his Nathan Heller series and Stuart Kaminsky with his Toby Peters books, specialize in mixing the real and the unreal, by having their detectives rub shoulders with celebrities of bygone days who become integral parts of the storyline. I......more

Hector Lassiter or “Lasso” as his best friend Ernest Hemingway calls him, is an American crime writer in 1920’s Paris. Gertrude Stein solicits Hector’s aid in solving a series of murders of literary magazine editors. He becomes a part of her team of sleuths, composed of crime and mystery writers. La......more

The Hector Lassiter books by Craig McDonald get points for innovation if nothing else. Lassiter, a pulp crime writer living in Paris during the 1920s, is an invention wholly of McDonald’s own, but the cast of supporting characters are drawn from real life literary figures from the era. Gertrude Stei......more

In Paris in 1924, Hector is part of the Lost Generation. He spends time writing in bars or meeting Ernest Hemingway and others there or at salons at Gertrude Stein's place. A string of murders of literary magazine editors occurs. Stein has decided to have the mystery writers gathering at her salons......more