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Handler, David: - David Handler is the Edgar Award-winning, critically acclaimed author of several bestselling mystery series.

He began his career as a New York City reporter, and wrote his first two novels-- Kiddo (1987) and Boss (1988)--about his Los Angeles childhood.

In 1988 he published The Man Who Died Laughing , the first of his long-running series of mysteries starring ghostwriter Stuart Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu.