Missed yesterday, so I'm sending on two profiles today.
Ed Dee spent twenty years in the NYPD, starting out in
uniform in the South Bronx, and retiring as a detective
lieutenant in the Organized Crime unit.
Ten years after retiring (and after receiving a Master of
Fine Arts from Arizona State U), he wrote 14 PECK SLIP, the
first in a series featuring detective Anthony Ryan and Joe
Gregory. It was later named an N.Y. TIMES "Notable Bood of
the Year 1994," Ryan, who narrates the stories, is
(comparatively) steadier and more dependable, while Gregory
tends to be more colorful and flamboyant. They've since
reappeared in BRONX ANGEL, LITTLE BOY BLUE, and
NIGHTBIRD.
Since so many hard-boiled private eye stories are first
first-person narratives (a comparatively rare, though hardly
unheard of, device in the police procedural), Dee's books,
like Jonathan Craig's, provide an easy way for PI readers to
transition from one hard-boiled sub-genre to another. His
style is lean, and extremely readable, and his characters are
realistic and convincing.
JIM DOHERTY
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