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Eric Wright

Best known as a writer of award-winning detective fiction, including the Charlie Salter mysteries, Eric Wright has also written a comic novel (Moodies Tale) and Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, his 1999 memoir which was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. (The first chapter of that memoir first appeared in The New Yorker.) Eric helped to set up and was the first director of the publishing program at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto.

Books by Eric Wright

Land Mine

The Land Mine

Lucy Trimble Mysteries 2-Book Bundle

Dempsey's Lodge

Charlie Salter Mysteries 4-Book Bundle

A Likely Story

Finding Home

A Charlie Salter Omnibus

The Hemingway Caper

Death on the Rocks

Moodies Tale

The Last Hand

Always Give Penny to Blind Man

Death of a Sunday Writer