Lawrence Treat

Lawrence Treat , actually Lawrence Arthur Goldstone , (* 1903 ; † 1998 ) was an American writer.

Treat studied law and then practiced as a lawyer for some time. The first literary attempts were made during his studies. He also created his pseudonym Lawrence Treat , which he then used throughout his life.

On March 26, 1945 he founded the Association Mystery Writers of America (MWA) together with Anthony Boucher , Brett Halliday and Clayton Rawson . As a member of the League of American Writers he was elected to the Keep America out of war committee in January 1940 . Treat gave up this office in 1941 when the German-Soviet nonaggression pact was broken.

Honors

• 1965 Edgar Allan Poe Award ( Best Short Story Category ) for H as in Homicide
• 1978 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Category Special Edgar) for Mystery Writer's handbook

Works (selection)

as an author

• Detectives on the black ice. Criminal puzzles with a deep meaning . Dumont, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7701-1616-X .
• Wedding or funeral feast (“Weep for a wanton”). Goldmann, Munich 1974.
• M for murder. Detective novel ("T like trapped"). Kaiser-Verlag, Klagenfurt 1972.
• Right in the heart ("F as in flight"). Dörner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1958.
• Mysterious murders. 37 crime puzzles . 2nd edition Claassen, Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3-546-00141-9 .
• Fall into the abyss ("Over the edge"). Scherz Verlag, Stuttgart 1962.

as editor

• Mystery Writer's Handbook . Writer's Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio 1976, ISBN 0-89879-080-8 .

literature

• Armin Arnold et al. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 332.