He has also been actively involved in the publication of “Video Treasures and Trash,” a two-volume guide to the bizarre and obscure movies from the 1980s. He is such an eccentric character just like the many characters he writes about in his novels. He is also huge on bird watching and claims to have documented more than 1500 different bird species.

Still, no one has been able to establish the truth or otherwise of these wild claims.Īpart from writing, Morse is also a sculptor who has been sculpting for many years. However, many people started postulating that he could, in fact, be the real Runa Fairleigh and as such, he is the owner of the work he claimed to have discovered. In 1984, he was responsible for unearthing a Runa Farleigh unpublished manuscript which would then be published as “An Old Fashioned Mystery.” Just like many of his contemporaries, LA Morse has been engaged in other literary activities apart from writing books. Morse won the Edgar Award for his 1981 published novel “The Old Dick,” which was the follow-up to his blockbuster work “The Flesh Eaters.” The novel told the story of a private detective in his seventies who comes out of retirement to undertake what he believes to be his last ever job. While this book was well received, some of his best-known books have to be his crime fiction including those that star Sam Hunter the LA detective.

He would find his story in the true story of the cannibalistic Sawney Bean and his family who ate a ton of Scottish citizens during the 15th century. He wanted to pen something artistic, sensitive, and delicate. He began writing the novel after he returned to the United States following extensive trials in Southeast Asia. The work followed the life and times of Sawney Bean, a Scottish cannibal, and his clan as it chronicles their brutal and horrifying acts.

He got his start in fiction writing with the publishing of “The Flesh Eaters,” which he published in 1979. During the 1960s, he moved to Toronto where he worked at the University of Toronto as an administrator and in educational television among other things. The author grew up in Los Angeles and it was while he was living there that he earned his English literature degrees and worked all manner of jobs. However, the author has been a wearer of many hats ever since he got into writing. LA Morse is for the most part known as an award-winning author of hard-boiled crime mysteries.

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