Description

In the period before he produced irritable private eye Matthew Scudder, thief Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless traveler Evan Tanner, and the pleasant hit-man Keller—and decades before his initial Edgar Award—a young author called Lawrence Stop posted a tale entitled "You-Can't Shed" to Manhunt journal. It had been printed, and the remainder is history. One-Night Stands and Misplaced Breaks is just a sterling assortment of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes composed between 1958 and 1962 with a budding young master and soon-to-be Great Master—an important piece of style history, and more enjoyable than the usual high-speed police chase adhering to a lender job gone-bad.