Vincent Lardo

Vincent A. Lardo (February 17, 1931 – December 24, 2025) was an American popular crime novelist.

Life and career Born in the Bronx on February 17, 1931, Lardo attended the former Evander Childs High School, followed by the City College of New York.

Lardo enlisted in the Army in 1952, and in 1953 was due to be sent to fight in the Korean War. The armistice was signed the same day he was scheduled to sail. In 1954 he was stationed in Japan, and was discharged the same year. He enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey under the G.I. Bill, gaining a degree in English literature. After pursuing a banking career, he entered public relations and advertising which became his main career until the mid-1980s when he started writing novels after learning to use a word processor.

In 1998, he retired and relocated from Manhattan to his second home in Amagansett with his partner, Bob Evans, who died a year later.

In 2013, Lardo returned to the gay-lesbian genre with The Jockstrap Murders.

Lardo died on December 24, 2025, at the age of 94.

Selected works

Novels China House (1983) The Prince and the Pretender (1984) Mask of Narcissus (1987) The Hampton Affair (1999) Death by Drowning (2000) The Hampton Connection (2000) The Jockstrap Murders (2013)

Archy McNally novels McNally's Dilemma (1999) McNally's Folly (2000) McNally's Chance (2001) McNally's Alibi (2002) McNally's Dare (2003) McNally's Bluff (2004)

Articles Wilde's Company: Nineteen Cleveland St., London. 1889 in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 1996