block - Libros y biografía

There's a song they used to sing at Antioch College, and it went something like this:"She was just a little freshman Victim of Admission's whim Then she met an upperclassman—we won't name him— And she...

Alex Penn wakes up in a squalid Times Square hotel room. This is what he sees when he finally opens his eyes:"The floor was a sea of blood. A body floated upon this ocean. A girl—black hair, staring blue...

Im sechzehnten Roman seiner preisgekrönten Matthew-Scudder-Serie hat sich Bestseller-Autor Lawrence Block in Sachen Spannungsaufbau und Figurenzeichnung wieder einmal selbst übertroffen. In Weiterführung...

After spending her girlhood writing gentle and thoughtful novels of the lesbian experience (SHADOWS, WARM AND WILLING, ENOUGH OF SORROW), Jill Emerson reinvented herself in the early 1970s, just when...

Dalla sua prima comparsa nel 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr si è guadagnato la crescente simpatia di un pubblico internazionale. Questo personaggio, scanzonato e dalle mani leste, i cui talenti come investigatore...

Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's...

“All of Block’s Bernie books are outrageously funny.” —Associated Press   “Wonderfully funny…Block’s effortless first-person narrative and zippy dialogue is as pleasing as escapist fare ever gets.” —Los...

Five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block write a monthly column for Writers Digest Magazine for fourteen years. The Liar's Bible consists of previously uncollected columns, chosen to...

There's no glass slipper in this fairytale - just a damsel in distress, a bag of cash, and a whole lot of dead bodies.Reporter Ted Lindsay is trying to forget his ex-wife, and New York City's tough streets...

"A missing person case brings private eye Roy Markham to the remote winter-bound college town of Cliff's End, New Hampshire. But what began as a routine investigation quickly becomes dark and dangerous....

"Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are...

"Ed London is the kind of private investigator you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears this case is still alive and kicking....

"If you're not part of the solution, you must be part of the problem."You heard that a lot in the early 1970s, when the country seemed to be teetering on the brink of revolutionary upheaval. Miles Dorn,...

"This goes through you like a dose of salts and stings like iodine."So said Virginia Kirkus Reviews of Such Men Are Dangerous when it first appeared almost fifty years ago, and since then this edge-of-the-chair...

SO A WAR VET, A PSYCHOPATH, AND A HOT BABE WALK INTO WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK……and years later they tell us what Greenwich Village was like in the 1950s. Lawrence Block was on the scene, just starting to...

Here's one reviewer's take:"Originally marketed as "occult horror", Ariel is neither. It's a story of the madness that lies just under the surface, and what it takes to bring it out; the need to give...

AT CARDS AND WITH WOMEN, BILL MAYNARD KNEW HOW TO CHEAT…On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action – but not nearly as hungry as Joyce...

BECAUSE IN 1961, NO ONE WOULD HAVE CALLED FIDEL CASTRO THE RETIRING TYPE."There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission....

I can trace the origin of A Week as Andrea Benstock to two distinct sources. The first inspired my attempting the book, while the second inspired its form.The second first: In 1949, Belgian author Georges...

Lawrence Block, the award-winning crime fiction author, is almost as well known for his instructional books for writers, and contributed a monthly column on fiction to Writers Digest for 14 years. WRITING...

Here’s CHIP HARRISON—the second series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...Chip’s debut in NO SCORE opens with the lad orphaned and cast adrift by...

"The colonel was right. You had to draw a line through mankind, a wavy line but a line, and on one side you had Good and on the other side you had Evil. There was good and bad in everyone, sure, and every...

Here’s CHIP HARRISON—the second series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...Chip’s second adventure in CHIP HARRISON SCORES AGAIN begins when our lad...

HE WAS EVERY MAN'S DREAM – AND ONE MAN'S NIGHTMARE!Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth.  But they needed a girl on the inside...

Your name's Joe Marlin, but you change it almost as often as you change your shirt. It's David Gavilan when you skip a hotel bill and head for Atlantic City. You left empty-handed, and you need luggage...

"You may rape the bride…"David and Jill Wade wanted a properly traditional start to their marriage. For openers, they decided to delay its consummation until after the ceremony. They planned a perfect...

Well, here’s what the blurb for the audiobook says: “Carla is a beautiful girl. She was plucked from the obscurity of a Polish slum to be the wife of a wealthy man—a man who seemingly gives her everything...

FOUR LIVES AT THE CROSSROADS is the latest addition to the Classic Crime Library...after a short stay in the Collection of Classic EroticaBack in the late 1950s and early 60s, when I was finding myself...

Ah, yes. The Adulterators, the thrilling account of a couple of desperadoes whose violation of the Pure Food and Drug Act brought a nauseated nation to its knees, and— Oh, it's The Adulterers? Oh. Well,...

Jeff Flanders has a perfectly good life. Until Candace Cain sashays into it and turns it upside-down. Jeff's got a good-looking wife; he loves her and she loves him. He's got a job, swinging a desk at...