First Prize to be republished.

Ed Cline wrote nine novels before starting on the Sparrowhawk series: three suspense novels and six detective novels. Only two of the nine have been published. First Prize, the second in a series of detective stories, was published in 1988. Whisper the Guns, the first in a suspense series featuring an American entrepreneur hero, was published in 1992.

"Nothing that is observable in reality is exempt from rational scrutiny." This is the motto of Chess Hanrahan, the protagonist of First Prize, a detective who solves mysteries based on moral paradoxes. Hanrahan is hired by the Granville Foundation to find Gregory Compton, a writer who has just won the prestigious Granville award for fiction. Compton has disappeared without claiming the award, and the Granville Foundation is eager to find him. Hanrahan's investigation leads him through the twisted world of the publishing industry, and, along the way, it illustrates why so little true art manages to percolate through the mountain of rubbish that gets into print.

There is an excellent review of First Prize at: http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/040205_fram-cohen_firstprize.php

First Prize is to be republished by Perfect Crime Books in December 2009: http://www.perfectcrimebooks.com/edwardcline.html

Order your copy today! Perhaps, with enough response to this release, the rest of Ed's novels will see the light of day. Currently, there are plans to publish one more Hanrahan mystery, Presence of Mind, in which he takes on the denizens of the State Department.