Lawrence Block - Libros y biografía

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...

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...