Lawrence Block - Libros y biografía

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...

Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He's good at it, it's addictively exciting—and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He...

An MWA Grand Master tells it straight:Fredric Brown: “When I read Murder Can Be Fun, I had a bottle ofbourbon on the table and every time Brown’s hero took a drink, I had a snort myself. This is a hazardous...

Lawrence Block’s 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese...

MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's new collection of short fiction written since the publication of his omnibus volume, Enough Rope:One of the most highly acclaimed novelists in the crime genre, Lawrence...

“Bernie is such a likeable goof, the dialogue so finely crafted and the plot so twisted that one sitting is all it takes on this book.” —Arkansas Democrat-Gazette   “All of Block’s Bernie books are outrageously...

Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite...

"MWA Grand Master Block (The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons) adds a generous dollop of eroticism to this ingeniously plotted study in criminality and corruption. Divorced and retired New York cop Doak...

"È da tanto che non leggo nulla che mi abbia così colpito e stimolato. DEAD GIRL BLUES è audacemente originale, scioccante e brillantemente raccontato. In un periodo in cui molti romanzi polizieschi si...

n early 1969, I moved with my wife and daughters to an 18th century farmhouse on twelve rolling acres a mile east of the Delaware River. We kept a variety of animals and grew things in the garden, and...

Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy.He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment.Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane,...

Keller is friendly. Industrious. A bit lonely, sometimes. If it wasn't for the fact that he kills people for a living, he'd be just your average Joe. The inconvenient wife, the troublesome sports star,...

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends...

For years now Keller's had places to go and people to kill.But enough is enough. Just one more job—paid in advance—and he's going to retire. Waiting in Des Moines for the client's go-ahead, Keller's picking...

It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.)...

From the revered New York Times bestselling author comes a touching, insightful, and humorous memoir of an unlikely racewalker and world traveler Before Lawrence Block was the author of bestselling novels...

The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now,...

Matt Scudder sta finalmente conducendo un'esistenza tranquilla. Il numero dei crimini è in diminuzione e la borsa in risalita. I rimodernamenti rendono più gradevoli i vecchi quartieri. Le strade di New...