Lawrence Block - Libros y biografía

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,...

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...

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....

Das Leben hat es gut gemeint mit Byrne und Susan Hollander. Er ist Anwalt, sie Schriftstellerin; ihr mitten in Manhattan gelegenes Stadthaus ist inzwischen drei Millionen Dollar wert und befindet sich...

BORDERLINE "In the summer of 1958, I turned twenty years old. I had been working for a little less than a year as an editor at Scott Meredith Literary Agency, even as I had begun selling stories to crime...

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...

For almost three years, novelist and short-story writer Lawrence Block's monthly column, "Generally Speaking," was one of the most popular features in Linn's Stamp News. A general collector of pre-1940...

While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. His instructional books for writers...

SO A WAR VET, A PSYCHOPATH, AND A HOT BABE WALK INTO WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK……and years later they tell us what Greenwich Village was like in the 1950s. Lawrence Block was on the scene, just starting to...

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...

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...

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...

Der renommierte Bestsellerautor und Meister des modernen Spannungsromans ist mit einem packenden neuen Roman über seinen coolen Auftragskiller Keller zurück.John Keller ist Everybody´s Lieblingskiller:...

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...

“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...

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...

69 Barrow Street is Lawrence Block's fourth book, first published in 1959. A multiple-viewpoint novel, it's set in a brownstone in GreenwichVillage. Considered erotic back I the day, it's tame by 21st...

Alla conclusione de Il Sicario in Fuga, Keller viveva in una grande e vecchia casa nel quartiere del Lower Garden in una New Orleans che si stava riprendendo dall'uragano Katrina. Aveva un nuovo nome...

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...

Die zweite Kurzgeschichte mit dem New Yorker Privatdetektiv Matthew Scudder.»Ich begann Mitte der siebziger Jahre damit, über Matthew Scudder zu schreiben. Der erste Roman, ›Die Sünden der Väter‹ (›The...

»Die Sünden der Väter« stellt Matthew Scudder vor, jenen New Yorker Privatdetektiv, der von Liam Neeson in »Ruhet in Frieden« auf der Leinwand verkörpert wurde. Eine junge Prostituierte wurde getötet...

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...

In seinem elften Abenteuer wagt sich Matt Scudder wieder einmal in düstere Gefilde vor. Dazu einige Pressestimmen:Es bedarf der sicheren Hand eines coolen Profis wie Lawrence Block, um den hektischen...

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

Lawrence Block's new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years."Hard Sell," a story ghost-written under Craig Rice's name, appeared in the first issue of Ed McBain's...

I'd no sooner finished CARLA, my first book for Midwood Tower, than Harry Shorten asked for another. I'd just returned to Antioch College, where after two years as an undistinguished student I'd dropped...

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,...

"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...

Von Willa Cathers Bonmot zu Beginn des Buchs - "Selbst die Bösen bekommen Schlimmeres, als sie verdienen " – bis zum letzten Satz beglückt Block seine Leser wieder einmal mit einem großartig geschriebenen...