Lawrence Block - Libros y biografía

The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson.A pretty young girl is...

Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious d.a. about police corruption. Now he'saccused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn't...

Five novels in the unforgettable Bernie Rhodenbarr series.THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS: Bernie Rhodenbarr is trying to make an honest living, but when his new landlord raises the rent, there's...

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables...

Small-time stoolie, Jake " The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients", he figured, the more money -- and more people...

Antiquariatsbesitzer und Einbrecher Bernie Rhodenbarr neigt im Allgemeinen nicht zu philosophischen Überlegungen, wenn es um seine kriminellen Aktivitäten geht. Er hat das Talent dazu, es ist ansteckend...

Suppose you're Bernie Rhodenbarr. You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. It's in Greenwich Village, and your best friend's...

Immaginate di essere Bernie Rhodenbarr. Avete un lavoro bellissimo: siete proprietario di un accogliente negozio di libri usati, completa di Raffles, il vostro gatto caudalmente carente. È nel Greenwich...

Kirkus Reviews meint: »Ist Bernie Rhodenbarr – der coolste, ruhigste und am wenigsten gewalttätige professionelle Einbrecher Manhattans – anständig geworden? Es scheint so, denn er ist nun Besitzer eines...

"Byrne e Susan Hollander fanno una bella vita. Lui è un avvocato, lei una scrittrice. La loro casa di pietra a Manhattan, che vale tre milioni di dollari, è a due passi dal Lincoln Center. E lì, in quella...

THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS! On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to intertwine — with fatal results....

Bernie Rhodenbarr hat sich tatsächlich auf den Pfad der Tugend begeben. Es ist bereits ein Jahr her, seit er sich zum letzten Mal unerlaubt Zutritt zu einem fremden Heim verschafft hat. Doch jetzt zwingt...

Seit seinem Debüt von 1977 hat sich Bernie Rhodenbarr die Zuneigung eines wachsenden internationalen Publikums erworben. Der unbekümmerte Langfinger, der sich mit seiner detektivischen Begabung aus den...

Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles...

Sometime in 1953, I knew with unusual certainty what I intended to do with my life. I would become a writer.I was then 15 years old, and the next several years were to prove eventful. I went to college,...

Sheesh. What a lousy title. Flesh Mob was published by Midnight Reader, a fellow imprint of Nightstand Books, in 1962. I can tell at a glance that it's my work, although I don't specifically recall writing...

Jahrelang ist Keller durchs ganze Land gereist und hat Leute umgebracht.Aber jetzt reicht es ihm. Nur noch ein Auftrag – im Voraus bezahlt -, und er wird in Rente gehen. Während er in Des Moines darauf...

MATT SCUDDER RITORNAA più di quarant'anni dal suo debutto e quasi dieci anni dopo la sua ultima apparizione, uno dei più noti personaggi di tutta la letteratura poliziesca è di nuovo al lavoro su un altro...

Keller is a hit man who finds his life turned upside down when a job means more than the one allotted death...Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates...

A brilliant, fast-paced thriller from 'a flat out entertainer' Daily TelegraphAlso a major film starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson - now available on NetflixKenan Khoury's wife never returned...

A pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story.The streets of New York are never safe, but the release of James Leo Motley, a psychopath who went down swearing revenge on PI Matt Scudder, means death is out there....

Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for...

From the author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - set to be a major Hollywood film - comes the third novel in the Matt Scudder series.When hard-drinking ex-cop Matt Scudder is roped into an NYPD internal...

In his brilliant follow-up to In Sunlight or In Shadow, Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology as inventive as it is alluring, including Joyce...

A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, a newly-commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly-crafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, including...

Sometime spy Evan Tanner has accepted impossible assignments for many reasons: money, thrills, to have something to occupy his waking hours (twenty-four of them every day, in fact, since battlefield shrapnel...

This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams.Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast...

The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind...

The bear is on the prowl in many different guises.  He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare....

Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he's excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford...