Author Arthur Lyons, 62

Posted: Friday, April 18th, 2008 8:32 pm

Thriller writer, creator of the private investigator Jacob Asch and author of a study of American satanism …

His satanic interests led to a non-fiction study, The Second Coming: Satanism in America (1970). It inspired his first Jacob Asch novel, The Dead Are Discreet (1974).

Whether in the boxing world of Dead Ringer (1977), or the slaughter houses of The Killing Floor (1976), or even music industry of Three With a Bullet (1984), Asch’s asides were the main entertainment… Read full obituary