A Fan and Scholar Like No Other
Today brings the sad news that Marvin S. Lachman—“one of the world’s preeminent [mystery fiction] scholars, writing extensively about the field in books and magazines”—has passed away at age 91 from “complications related to cancer.”
Born in 1932, a child of the Bronx, New York, Lachman went on to attend City College of New…
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