Lawrence Block: 119 books

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 Block is also a master of the short story, with award-winning work ranging from the macabre...

Five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block write a monthly column for Writers Digest Magazine for fourteen years. The Liar's Bible consists of previously uncollected columns, chosen to illuminate the often dimly-lit path of the writer of fiction. Here's what one reviewer said...

For fourteen years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible...and now The Liar's Companion. Here...

Im sechzehnten Roman seiner preisgekrönten Matthew-Scudder-Serie hat sich Bestseller-Autor Lawrence Block in Sachen Spannungsaufbau und Figurenzeichnung wieder einmal selbst übertroffen. In Weiterführung des Erfolgs, den Der zweite Tod bei Kritikern wie Leserschaft hatte, führt Block seinen Helden...

MATT SCUDDER RETURNS. More than 40 years after his debut and nearly a decade since his last appearance, one of the most renowned characters in all of crime fiction is back on the case in this major new novella by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block. Well past retirement age and...

In the summer of 2009, award-winning novelist Lawrence Block began contributing a monthly column to Linn’s Stamp News, America’s leading philatelic publication. A collector as a boy and young man, Block had returned to the hobby in the 1990s. Before long he had begun writing about stamps when...

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 THE NOVEL was his first book for writers, and remained continuously in print since its original...

“Ed London is the kind of private investigator you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears this case is still alive and kicking. Seems that the dead girl was in possession of something special that some very shady characters...

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 Puls einer Stadt wie New York City einzufangen. Scudder schleppt einigen persönlichen Ballast...

When Joyce Kendall arrives in New York, fresh out of Clifton College in Iowa, she has a job and an apartment waiting for her. The job’s as a first reader for Armageddon Publications. The apartment’s at 21 Gay Street, and the small Federal-period house is already home to a lesbian couple, Jean...

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 Scudder-Roman. ~Thomas Gaughan, Booklist Im Namen des Volkes ist...

AT CARDS AND WITH WOMEN, BILL MAYNARD KNEW HOW TO CHEAT… On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action – but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill’s latest mark.  Together they hatch an ingenious...

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, der vor Kurzem gefasste Eispickel-Mörder, gibt freiherzig zu, vor neun Jahren sieben junge...

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 to check into a decent hotel, so you grab two checked bags before the owner turns up to claim...