The Edgar Awards Revisited: Room to Swing by Ed Lacy (Best Novel; 1958)

In 1958, the nominees for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award were Arthur Upfield’s The Bushman Who Came Back, Bill Ballinger’s The Longest Second, Marjorie Carleton’s The Night of the Good Children, and Ed Lacy’s Room to Swing. Of these four books, the best-known today among mystery aficionados is Upfield’s, largely because it’s part…