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William Lashner (b.1956), author of the Victor Carl crime novels, which include Killer's Kiss, Marked Man, Falls the Shadow, Past Due, Fatal Flaw, Bitter Truth, and Hostile Witness, is a former Philadelphia lawyer and a graduate of New York
University Law School and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has served as trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Justice Department. He lives with his family outside of Philadelphia.
In 2006 he published Kockroach under the pseudonym Tyler Knox.
See Tyler Knox.
William Lashner's website
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The following interrogation of William Lashner was performed in the basement
of the Roundhouse, Philadelphia Police Headquarters. As per police regulations,
the room was dank, full of shadows, and the single light in the room was focused
on the subject's face. The subject was read his rights and declined
representation of counsel, but he did ask for a pair of sunglasses and a
cruller.
Do you know why you're here?
Because I have a book coming out in May called Past Due? Could that be
it?
Don't be smart with us, smart guy. We're trying to get a lowdown on some
bird name of Victor Carl. You know him?
Sure I do. A Philadelphia lawyer, strictly low rent, always looking to make a
dishonest dime.
A real ambulance chaser, huh?
Victor chases ambulances with the same devotion and enthusiasm as dogs chase
cars. Whenever an ambulance stops short he cracks a tooth. But he also handles
the occasional high profile murder case when it falls into his lap, like in Fatal
Flaw. Or now and again a wrongful death suit, like in Bitter Truth.
Or, just recently, the investigation of a murder as recounted in Past Due,
when a client, a career criminal named Joey Cheaps, gets his throat slit on some
pier down by the ...
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