Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 25-26
BY MARTIN KICH Higgins, George V. The Friends of Eddie Coyle. New York: Knopf, 1972. In 1985, the Book Marketing Council selected The Friends of Eddie Coyle as one of the top twenty postwar American novels. Higgins’ debut effort, the novel has been translated into Danish, Finnish, Flemish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Turkish. It…