block - Libros y biografía

A thriller loaded with international intrigue from mystery master Lawrence Block.Struggling folksinger Ellen Cameron can't believe her luck. Not only is the State Department sponsoring her trip to West...

Presenting EVAN TANNER—the first series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain's sleep center,...

A NEW HAT.FOR A NEW HIT.Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking...

"Adoro la serie di Matthew Scudder e adoro le storie brevi; e questa è la collezione completa delle storie di Scudder. Una delle più belle è Alle prime luci dell'alba, vincitrice del premio Edgar Allan...

When I was sifting through copies of my pseudonymous erotic novels of the early 1960s, deciding which books to republish, High School Sex Club didn't make the initial cut. While it's true that it was...

KEPT.So you're unemployed, fresh off a construction crew in Albany, and standing on a Thruway ramp trying to thumb a ride, and a babe in a Cadillac convertible stops for you. Hey, these things happen.They...

»Ich liebe die Matthew-Scudder-Reihe und ich liebe diese Kurzgeschichten.«– Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Ten Most Wanted Books of 2011Lawrence Block konnte mit seinen 17 Matthew-Scudder-Romanen die...

Da quando "Il Ladro in Caccia" entrò tra i best-seller nel 2004, gli appassionati hanno sempre chiesto a gran voce un nuovo libro avente per protagonista lo scanzonato Bernie Rhodenbarr dalle mani leste....

Broadway Can Be Murder started out to be a novel based on Johnny Midnight, a TV series which everyone has long since forgotten. Except, of course, that nothing manages to be forgotten in the Internet...

Keller, einsamer Großstadtcowboy und abgebrühter Auftragskiller, hat in Kellers Konkurrent seinen zweiten großen Auftritt. Kirkus Reviews hatte dazu Folgendes zu sagen:»Nach seinem aufsehenerregenden...

Keller, l'Uomo Urbano Solitario degli assassini, fa la sua seconda comparsa in Il Sicario nel Mirino (Hit List), ed è veramente un grande ritorno. Ecco come ne parla  Kirkus Reviews:"Appena terminato...

Gentiluomo filosofico ma pratico, Bernie Rhodenbarr possiede molte ammirevoli qualità: fascino, intelligenza, un brillante senso dello humor e una irremovibile lealtà. Ma naturalmente, ha anche un suo...

Da quando fece la sua prima comparsa nel 1977 in Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Parola di Ladro, Mondadori, 1979) il ladro e libraio Bernie Rhodenbarr si è guadagnato la simpatia dei lettori di polizieschi...

DEAD GIRL BLUES is a dark novel about a crime that appears to go undetected. Why don't I let these people tell you about it? "Dark and cold as the far side of the moon, but with prose as lean as a starving...

Nach der Sperrstunde ist der sechste Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur Matthew Scudder. Von heftigen Schuldgefühlen geplagt, hat er Frau und Kinder verlassen und den Dienst beim NYPD quittiert....

"This is either the funniest dirty book or the dirtiest funny book ever written!"  —Isaac AsimovSomewhere around 1969 I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels---that a...

O Rose thou art sick. / The invisible worm, /That flies in the night / In the howling storm: /Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy: /And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy. Those eight lines...

When Don Westlake and I were starting out as writers, we both served an apprenticeship writing erotic novels for Harry Shorten at Midwood Books and Bill Hamling at Nightstand. (I was Sheldon Lord for...

From Publishers Weekly's starred review: "Set in and around colleges and universities, the 17 new stories and one reprint in this top-notch anthology explore the forbidding side of academia. As Block...

Der Spitzel und Kleingauner Jake »Schnipser« Jablon macht sich eine Menge neuer Feinde, als er die Laufbahn wechselt und von Informant auf Erpresser umsattelt. Früher oder später, vermutet er, wird einer...

Keller è un killer. Professionale, freddo, sicuro, competente, affidabile. Ma è anche una persona complessa: riservato e solitario, gelido e spietatamente efficiente, è portato alla solitudine e ai dubbi,...

In seinem vierten Abenteuer nimmt sich Matthew Scudder – nun in deutscher Neuübersetzung – eines ungelösten Falles an, mit dem er schon Jahre früher als Detective beim NYPD befasst war. Louis Pinell,...

Ein packender Kurzroman über abrupte Enden und Neuanfänge aus der Feder des legendären Autors von »Ruhet in Frieden - A Walk Among the Tombstones«.Als der Reisende Bill einen Aushang im Fenster eines...

»Ich liebe die Matthew-Scudder-Reihe und ich liebe diese Kurzgeschichten.«– Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Ten Most Wanted Books of 2011Lawrence Block konnte mit seinen 17 Matthew-Scudder-Romanen die...

Ich begann Mitte der siebziger Jahre damit, über Matthew Scudder zu schreiben. Der erste Roman, »Die Sünden der Väter«, erschien 1975, der 17. und bislang letzte Roman der Reihe, »Ein Schluck vom harten...

Endlich kann Matt Scudder ein behagliches Leben führen. Die Kriminalitätsrate ist gesunken, die Aktienkurse steigen und die Gentrifizierung sorgt dafür, dass das alte Viertel in neuem Glanz erstrahlt....

In Roseburg, Oregon, a bartender walks off his job and heads east with no destination in mind. The Cascades are in his way, but he doesn't let that stop him.He keeps walking. And other people are moved...

"Höllisch raffiniert … ein hoch erfreuliches Wiedersehen mit einem alten Freund … Lawrence Blocks Matthew-Scudder-Serie ist aus dem Krimigenre nicht mehr wegzudenken, und Der Club der Toten stellt einen...

Matt Scudder ist zurück. Über vierzig Jahre nach seinem Debut und fast zehn Jahre nach seinem letzten Fall tritt in dieser Novelle von Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block eine der prägendsten...

In questo nuovo racconto Keller, il sicario che tutti amano, è diretto a Chicago sul City of New Orleans, un treno della Amtrak, per fare ciò che meglio sa fare.Ma è complicato. Solitamente vi è qualcuno...