The Ace of Spades

by Dell Shannon

Overview

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza works with an outstanding team at the Los Angeles Police Department. They need to be. On their hands is a case of a vanished treasure of coins; drug dealers and a clutch of law-breaking brothers.

As well as the cases, though, there's an inside view of a police department and the varied lives of the characters who work within it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781471913754
Publisher:	Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Publication date:	05/21/2014
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	402,020
File size:	465 KB

About the Author

In her 67 years, California author Elizabeth Linington wrote 82 crime fiction novels, under her own name as well as the aliases Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill and Dell Shannon. Her writing evolved from the early radio and stage dramas, via historical narratives, to her most celebrated novels - mysteries. She was nominated for Edgars in 1961, 1962 and 1963 for Case Pending, Nightmare and Knave of Hearts respectively. Her most successful creation, debonair LAPD Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, broke new ground in being one of the first Latino police officers in the procedural genre, and Linington herself was a pioneer in a male-dominated industry, earning the moniker 'Queen of the Procedurals'.