New York: Ungar Publishing Company, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Recognition: Mystery Writers Series. An in-depth look at the life and works of the writer whom many consider "the finest writer among the practicioners of detective fiction." His over 40 novels span the era from the Golden Age of the 1930s to the 1980s. Notes, bibliography, index. xi, 224 pp. ISBN: 0-804428069.