Lawrence Block - Libros y biografía

In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous...

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...

Quand Kenan Khoury reçoit un coup de fil anonyme exigeant une rançon s’il veut revoir sa femme en vie, il n’hésite pas une seconde à payer. Mais c’est dans le coffre d’une voiture et sous forme de pièces...

À l'heure du numérique, difficile de gagner sa vie avec une modeste boutique de livres anciens et d'occasion sur la 11e Rue Est de New York... Heureusement, Bernie Rhodenbarr a d'autres atouts dans sa...

Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's...

Buchhändler Bernie Rhodenbarr ist verliebt: in eine exotische osteuropäische Schönheit, die seine Leidenschaft für Humphrey-Bogart-Filme teilt. Er ist im siebten Himmel, weil er jeden Abend beim Bogart-Filmfestival...

Es ist schwer, jemanden zu ignorieren, dessen Finger man in seinem Mund stecken hat. Deshalb ist Bernie Rhodenbarr ganz Ohr, als sich sein Zahnarzt Dr. Sheldrake über seine widerwärtige Ex-Frau beklagt...

Because they were collected into a single hardcover volume published by Subterranean Press, a good number of readers are acquainted with my three collaborations with Donald E. Westlake. That's not the...

Jill Emerson, whose first three works were gentle explorations of the lesbian experience, took a sharp turn toward candor in THIRTY, her first book for Berkley. As I've explained in the book description...

THIRTY, as intensely erotic a book as I'd ever written, is what happened after I stopped writing erotica.Beginning with CARLA in 1958, I spent half a dozen years laboring in the vineyards of Midcentury...

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.Let me consider the second first. In 1949, the...

In 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...

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...

La volontà del popolo Even the wicked - book description   A partire dall'epigrafe (una citazione di Willa Cather: 'Anche i peccatori hanno peggio di quello che si meritano') fino all'ultima frase, Block...

"Dunkel und kalt wie die Rückseite des Monds, aber mit einer Prosa, so schlank wie ein Model, ist DEAD GIRL BLUES wie eine Leiche, von der man den Blick nicht abwenden kann. Ich konnte das Buch nicht...

"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION.An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray...

SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR... ...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out,...

Here you go—the first collaborative effort for Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall...with cover art by the great Paul Rader!When Don Westlake and I were starting out as writers, we both served an apprenticeship...

In the early 1970s, with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones rewriting film history, John Warren Wells hired on to write the script for a high-quality pornographic movie. Originally published by Dell,...

WIN, LOSE, OR DIE.Whether it's child's play or for the highest stakes, whether we stick to the rules or cheat, we all play games — for fun, for thrills, for love or money, to prove we're the best or make...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and...

KELLERS FEDORA In dieser neuen Novelle ist Keller, unser aller Lieblingsauftragskiller, in dem Amtrak-Nachtzug City of New Orleans nach Chicago unterwegs, um zu tun, was er am besten kann. Die Sache hat...