Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903 - 1998), better known by his pseudonym

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, Lawrence Treat, was an American

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 mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. A practicing lawyer before turning to writing, he was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America

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 and a two-time winner of the MWA's Edgar Award

Edgar Award

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. His first award came in 1965, for the short story "H as in Homicide"; his second was a Special Edgar Award in 1978 for editing a new edition of the Mystery Writer's Handbook, the MWA's guide for aspiring mystery writers, first published in 1956.

As a member of the League of American Writers

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, he served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact.

Selected works

• Run Far, Run Fast (1937)
• B as in Banshee (1940)
• D as in Dead (1941)
• H as in Hangman (1942)
• O as in Omen (1943)
• Wail for the Corpses (1943)
• Leather Man (1944)
• V as in Victim (1945)
• H as in Hunted (1946)
• Q as in Quicksand (1947)
• T as in Trapped (1947)
• F as in Flight (1948)
• Over the Edge (1948)
• Trial and Terror (1949)
• Big Shot (1951)
• Lady, Drop Dead (1960)
• Venus Unarmed (1961)
• P as in Police (edited by Ellery Queen
  Ellery Queen
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  ) (1970)