A 1001 Midnights Review: WILLIAM H. HALLAHAN – Catch Me, Kill Me.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini WILLIAM H. HALLAHAN – Catch Me, Kill Me. Bobbs-Merrill, hardcover, 1977. Avon, paperback, 1978. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel from the MWA in 1978. A former creative director for a large New York ad agency. William Hallahan published his first novel, The Dead of Winter, in 1972. This chilling (in more ways than one) tale of vengeance and sudden death earned considerable praise and prompted Publishers Weekly to extol Hallahan as being “expert in the creation of evil atmosphere.” His subsequent novels have lived up to — and surpassed-the promise of that debut. Catch Me: Kill Me is among his best, of such quality and merit that it was awarded a 1977 Best Novel Edgar. Typical of Hallahan’s more recent work (broad of theme and scope), it is both a novel of political intrigue and a probing character study of its three protagonists. In a men’s room at Grand Central Station, a Russian Jew named Boris Kotlikoff, a minor poet who…