Lawrence Block

Biography

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as “James M. Cain on Viagra,” is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.

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Series

Keller
Il Sicario
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Kellers Metier
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El sicario
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Il Sicario nel Mirino
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Kellers Konkurrent
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Il Sicario Ritorna
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Books

Quando la Sacre Taverna Chiude
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 6. Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 80,560. Language: Italian. Originally Published: April 30, 2024 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
QUANDO LA SACRA TAVERNA CHIUDE Quando la sacra taverna chiude è il sesto romanzo il cui protagonista è Matthew Scudder, il personaggio più avvincente di Lawrence Block. In preda all'angoscia, Scudder ha lasciato moglie e figli in periferia e ha restituito il distintivo della polizia di New York. Ora conduce una vita monastica in un hotel di Hell's Kitchen e vive di bourbon e caffè al bar dietro...
Kellers neuer Job
Series: Keller, Book 5. Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 85,690. Language: German. Originally Published: March 4, 2024 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
KELLERS NEUER JOB Am Ende von Kellers Katastrophe lebt Keller in einem großen, alten Haus im Lower Garden District des Post-Katrina New Orleans. Er hat einen neuen Namen (Nicholas Edwards), eine neue Frau (Julia) und einen neuen Beruf (Häuser renovieren) – und seine Frau erwartet ein Kind. Es deutet alles darauf hin, dass er damit abgeschlossen hat, gegen Bezahlung Leute umzubringen. Aber alte...
Borderline
Series: The Classic Crime Library, Book 22. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 50,070. Language: English. Originally Published: February 6, 2024 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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 fiction magazines. (All of this is detailed in A Writer Prepares, if you care.) I'd decided to return in the fall to Antioch College, and I'd left my job in May and spent June in my parent's...
Der Einbrecher, der wie Mondrian malte
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 5. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 78,020. Language: German. Originally Published: January 22, 2024 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
DER EINBRECHER, DER WIE MONDRIAN MALTE »Der umtriebige Lawrence Block jongliert fast gleichzeitig mehrere Serien und wendet sich in Der Einbrecher, der wie Mondrian malte einmal mehr Bernie Rhodenbarr zu. Bernie ist der Einbrecher des Titels – und einer der geschicktesten in New York. Doch trotz seines Geschicks gerät er unverschuldet immer wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Es ist, als würden die...
Der Einbrecher, der Spinoza studierte
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 4. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 73,750. Language: German. Originally Published: September 9, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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 aufregend und es ist vor allem viel profitabler, als alte Wälzer zu verkaufen. Er stiehlt, also is(s)t er – Punkt. Andererseits könnte er durchaus über den tieferen Sinn der Ereignisse im...
Die Autobiographie von Matthew Scudder
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 20. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 71,770. Language: German. Published: June 24, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Law enforcement
Die Autobiographie von Matthew Scudder Lawrence Block schreibt seit den 1970er Jahren preisgekrönte Romane und Kurzgeschichten über Matthew Scudder. Nachdem inzwischen sowohl der Autor als auch sein Detektiv ein halbes Jahrhundert älter sind, überkam ersteren das Bedürfnis, ein Buch über seinen Protagonisten zu schreiben. Allerdings fand er, dafür nicht der Richtige zu sein. LB: »Wie muss man...
L'Autobiografia di Matthew Scudder
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 20. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 67,410. Language: Italian. Published: June 24, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Law enforcement
A partire dagli anni Settanta, Lawrence Block ha scritto romanzi e brevi storie - più volte premiate - che hanno come protagonista Matthew Scudder. Ora che egli e il suo detective sono più vecchi di mezzo secolo, l'autore ha accettato di scrivere un libro sulla vita del suo personaggio. Ma ha deciso di non essere la persona adatta per quell'incarico. Come ha detto Block: "Com'era la famiglia di...
The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 20. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 67,460. Language: English. Published: June 24, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Since the 1970s, Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning novels and short fiction featuring Matthew Scudder. Now, with both himself and his detective half a century older, the author found himself charged with writing a book about his protagonist. And he decided he wasn't the right person for the job. LB: "What was Matt's family like? How did he spend his childhood? What steered him...
Der Einbrecher, der Fredric Brown begegnete
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 13. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 85,460. Language: German. Originally Published: April 15, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie wären Bernie Rhodenbarr. Sie haben einen Traumjob: Sie führen Ihr eigenes gemütliches Antiquariat, zusammen mit Raffles, Ihrem schwänzlich benachteiligten Kater. Es liegt in Greenwich Village, und der Hundesalon Ihrer besten Freundin ist nur zwei Häuser weiter. Sie beide essen zusammen zu Mittag und treffen sich regelmäßig nach der Arbeit auf einen Drink. Und Sie haben...
Playing Games
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 97,230. Language: English. Published: January 31, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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 an opponent knuckle under. And the games we play, with cards or dice or nothing but our wits, reveal something deeply personal about the players. In this powerful new anthology, Mystery...
Sinner Man
Series: The Classic Crime Library, Book 20. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 63,460. Language: English. Originally Published: January 7, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS! "To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?" Sinner Man was Lawrence Block's first crime novel, written over...
Una Pugnalata nel Buio
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 4. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 60,010. Language: Italian. Originally Published: January 3, 2023 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Nella sua quarta avventura, Matthew Scudder riapre un caso su cui aveva indagato anni prima, quando era detective della polizia di New York. Louis Pinell, l'Assassino del Punteruolo, recentemente arrestato, ammette spontaneamente di aver ucciso sette giovani donne nove anni addietro, ma giura che è stato un imitatore a uccidere Barbara Ettinger. Scudder gli crede. Ma la pista che conduce al...
Im frühen Licht des Tages
Series: Matthew Scudder Kurzgeschichten, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,850. Language: German. Originally Published: October 25, 2017 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
»Ich liebe die Matthew-Scudder-Reihe und ich liebe diese Kurzgeschichten.« – Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Ten Most Wanted Books of 2011 Lawrence Block konnte mit seinen 17 Matthew-Scudder-Romanen die Herzen von Lesern in der ganzen Welt gewinnen – und auch eine Vielzahl von Literaturpreisen, wie den Edgar Allan Poe Award (Edgar), den Shamus Award, den deutschen Marlowe-Preis und den...
A Girl Called Honey
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 21. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 53,620. Language: English. Originally Published: August 9, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Coming of age
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 writing erotic novels for Harry Shorten at Midwood Books and Bill Hamling at Nightstand. (I was Sheldon Lord for Midwood and Andrew Shaw for...
Der Einbrecher, der Ted Williams Verkaufte
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 6. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 92,090. Language: German. Originally Published: November 11, 2020 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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 ihn die Drohung seines skrupellosen Vermieters, die Miete um 1.000 Prozent zu erhöhen, zurück ins Verbrecherleben – zugegebenermaßen ein Schritt, der dem Buchhändler und (vorübergehend...
April North
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 4. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 47,480. Language: English. Originally Published: December 4, 2017 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Coming of age
Danny Duncan drives his father’s Oldsmobile. It's a nice respectable family sedan, and April North is every bit as respectable as the car. Until he manages to get her into the back seat. Now she's no longer a good girl, but only Danny know it, and he can keep a secret, can’t he? Well, no. He tells half the town of Antrim, Ohio—the male half, and...
Il Ladro in Caccia
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 10. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 87,400. Language: Italian. Originally Published: September 25, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Gentiluomo filosofico ma pratico, Bernie Rhodenbarr possiede molte ammirevoli qualità: fascino, intelligenza, un brillante senso dello humor e una irremovibile lealtà. Ma naturalmente, ha anche un suo particolare talento e il gusto per le cose migliori della vita. Così, è più che disposto, per piacere ma anche per un buon guadagno, a commettere un furto per vendicare un amico: dovrà derubare un...
The Topless Tulip Caper
Series: The Affairs of Chip Harrison, Book 4. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 58,080. Language: English. Originally Published: January 1, 2016 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Here’s CHIP HARRISON—the second series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES... How can a series predicated on the hero’s sexual innocence survive past a second book? How can our Chip remain the same age forever? Simple, Block decided, and put our Lecher in the Wry to work for a private detective, the remarkable Leo Haig. Haig believes that Nero...
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 7. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 86,450. Language: English. Originally Published: May 8, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love—with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival—until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary. When he's hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment...
The Girl with the Long Green Heart
Series: The Classic Crime Library, Book 4. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 61,880. Language: English. Originally Published: January 7, 2016 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
HE WAS EVERY MAN'S DREAM – AND ONE MAN'S NIGHTMARE! Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman's secretary, his lover – and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she's ready to make him pay… Johnny...
Das letzte Licht des Tages
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 19. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 37,750. Language: German. Originally Published: January 22, 2020 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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 Figuren der Kriminalliteratur wieder auf den Plan. Auch wenn Matt, längst über das Pensionsalter hinaus, weiterhin immer einen Tag nach dem anderen trocken bleibt, machen sich die Spuren...
The Specialists
Series: The Classic Crime Library, Book 5. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 52,480. Language: English. Originally Published: April 18, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
"The colonel was right. You had to draw a line through mankind, a wavy line but a line, and on one side you had Good and on the other side you had Evil. There was good and bad in everyone, sure, and every shitheel was some mother's son, and it was all well and good to know this, but when push came to shove, it was just words; there was Good and Evil with no shades of gray and Judgment Day came...
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 59,690. Language: English. Originally Published: May 8, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
“Block is a master of witty dialogue, plotting and pace, and the series’ wacky, offbeat characters make great companions.” —Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Fans will welcome it. New readers will delight in it. A witty, and always affectionate, sendup of the genre.” —Denver Post “Clever and amusing.” —Detroit Free Press “Wittily diverting…rather like an Agatha Christie novel narrated by Basil Fawlty, or...
Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 46,850. Language: English. Originally Published: January 3, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
"This is either the funniest dirty book or the dirtiest funny book ever written!" —Isaac Asimov Somewhere around 1969 I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels---that a disembodied voice was telling us a story. I liked the idea of novels passing themselves off as documents, and drew inspiration from Mark Harris's Wake Up, Stupid, and Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad...
Verloren und gefunden
Series: Matthew Scudder Kurzgeschichten, Book 8. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,510. Language: German. Originally Published: May 7, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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 Zeug«, wurde 2011 veröffentlicht. Im Laufe der Jahre verfasste ich auch elf Kurzgeschichten mit Scudder. »Verloren und gefunden«, zuerst erschienen 2000 in »Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine«, ist...
La noche y la música
Series: Matthew Scudder. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 69,380. Language: Spanish. Originally Published: July 23, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
«Me encanta la serie sobre Matthew Scudder, y me encantan los cuentos…y ésta es la colección completa de los cuentos protagonizados por Scudder. Uno de los grandes de todos los tiempos es "A la luz de la madrugada", ganador del Premio Edgar Allan Poe.» –Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Los diez libros más deseados del 2011 «Mi favorito, creo, es...
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 6. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 83,690. Language: English. Originally Published: May 8, 2015 by Sky Warrior Book Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly...
Alle sterben
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 14. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 103,970. Language: German. Originally Published: March 13, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
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. Die Straßen New Yorks wirken bei Weitem nicht mehr so gefährlich wie früher. Dann bricht die Hölle aus. Schnell muss Scudder am eigenen Leib erfahren, dass die herausgeputzten Bürgersteige so...
The Crime of Our Lives
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 75,000. Language: English. Originally Published: March 26, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
An MWA Grand Master tells it straight: Fredric Brown: “When I read Murder Can Be Fun, I had a bottle of bourbon on the table and every time Brown’s hero took a drink, I had a snort myself. This is a hazardous undertaking when in the company of Brown’s characters, and, I’ve been given to understand, would have been just as dangerous around the...
The Trouble With Eden
Series: The Jill Emerson Novels. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 146,130. Language: English. Originally Published: September 27, 2016 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
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 this was as I'd expected. But there were two things I did not anticipate. One was that I would have to go away from there, all the way back to New York City, to get any work done. The other was...
So Willing
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 23. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 52,330. Language: English. Originally Published: August 1, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Coming of age
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 Midwood and Andrew Shaw for Nightstand, while Don was Alan Marshall for both publishers. Note though that the presence of either name upon a book is no guarantee that one of us wrote it. Both of us...
Of Shame and Joy
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 11. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 45,220. Language: English. Originally Published: September 23, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Romance » Erotic
O Rose thou art sick. / The invisible worm, /That flies in the night / In the howling storm: /Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy: /And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy. Those eight lines constitute the complete text of "The Sick Rose," published by William Blake in Songs of Experience in 1794. I took to Blake early on, and...
Am Rand des Abgrunds
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 7. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 89,140. Language: German. Originally Published: February 25, 2017 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Am Rand des Abgrunds ist der siebte Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur, Matthew Scudder. Von heftigen Schuldgefühlen geplagt, hat er Frau und Kinder verlassen und den Dienst quittiert, um in einem Hotel in New Yorks Hell´s Kitchen zu hausen und sich in seiner Stammkneipe, Jimmy Armstrong´s Saloon, vorwiegend von Kaffee und Bourbon zu ernähren. Inzwischen ist er trocken – wohnt aber...
Kept
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 14. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 42,700. Language: English. Originally Published: October 6, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Romance » Erotic
KEPT. So you're unemployed, fresh off a construction crew in Albany, and standing on a Thruway ramp trying to thumb a ride, and a babe in a Cadillac convertible stops for you. Hey, these things happen. They never happened to me, but never mind. For you it's different. You're Mark Taggert and you've got the good sense to get in the car, and it...
Deadly Honeymoon
Series: The Classic Crime Library, Book 2. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 48,570. Language: English. Originally Published: April 18, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
"You may rape the bride…" David and Jill Wade wanted a properly traditional start to their marriage. For openers, they decided to delay its consummation until after the ceremony. They planned a perfect honeymoon at a secluded lakeside resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. Joe Carroll, the guest in the cabin next door, seemed friendly enough. They took his dinner suggestion, then returned...
Der Einbrecher, der gerne Kipling zitierte
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 3. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 67,940. Language: German. Originally Published: November 23, 2022 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
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 Antiquariats in der 11th Street. Aber keine Angst, das ist nur eine Nebenbeschäftigung und Bernie ist umtriebig wie eh und je. Jetzt wurde er angeheuert, um eine einzigartige Kipling-Rarität...
Circle of Sinners
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 20. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 54,130. Language: English. Originally Published: August 13, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » General, Fiction » Urban
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 case with CIRCLE OF SINNERS, a similar joint effort undertaken with another longstanding (and, I'm pleased to say, still standing) friend and...
High School Sex Club
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 16. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 49,470. Language: English. Originally Published: November 2, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age
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 once mentioned in the same breath as War and Peace ("Andrew Shaw's High School Sex Club is, it must be said, no War and Peace." —Philomela Triolet...
Matando a Castro
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 10. Language: Spanish. Originally Published: March 28, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Adventure
Es 1961, y Fidel Castro está fortaleciendo su control de poder en Cuba. A 300 kilómetros de distancia, un misterioso hombre llamado Hiraldo recluta a cinco Norteamericanos para una misión desesperada. Cada uno tiene su propia razón para aceptar el trabajo: Ray Garrison es un solitario cazador de recompensas, Michael Turner, un asesino insensible. Jim Hines quiere vengar la ejecución de su...
Acht Millionen Wege zu sterben
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 5. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 94,050. Language: German. Originally Published: February 25, 2017 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Acht Millionen Wege zu sterben ist der fünfte Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur, Matthew Scudder. Von heftigen Gewissensbissen geplagt, hat der NYPD-Detective Frau und Kinder verlassen und den Dienst quittiert. Seitdem haust er in einem Hotel in New Yorks Hell´s Kitchen, hat Jimmy Armstrong´s Saloon, eine Kneipe um die Ecke, zu seinem zweiten Wohnzimmer erklärt und ernährt sich...
Aus dem Fenster
Series: Matthew Scudder Kurzgeschichten, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 13,390. Language: German. Originally Published: May 24, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Lawrence Block konnte mit seinen 17 Matthew-Scudder-Romanen die Herzen von Lesern in der ganzen Welt gewinnen – und auch eine Vielzahl von Literaturpreisen, wie den Edgar Allan Poe Award (Edgar), den Shamus Award, den deutschen Marlowe-Preis und den japanischen Maltese Falcon Award. Und es ist vor allem Matt Scudder, der Block Auszeichnungen für...
Dead Girl Blues — Deutsche Ausgabe
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 56,040. Language: German. Originally Published: June 24, 2020 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
"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 mehr weglegen – und wollte es auch nicht. Ein düsteres Meisterwerk der Erzählkunst." Joe R. Lansdale "Das Buch ist so düster, dass es ins Ultraviolette dreht. Aber es ist auch furchtlos und tut...
The Burglar on the Prowl
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr, Book 10. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 95,060. Language: English. Originally Published: May 8, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
A philosophical yet practical gentleman, Bernie Rhodenbarr possesses many admirable qualities: charm, intelligence, sparkling wit, and unwavering loyalty. Of course, he also has this special talent and a taste for life's finer things. So he's more than willing to perform some vengeful larceny for a friend -- ripping off a smarmy, particularly deserving plastic surgeon -- for fun and a very tidy...
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 10. Price: $7.99 USD. Language: English. Originally Published: March 28, 2015 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
The basis of the recent film starring Liam Neeson, A Walk Among the Tombstones is Matthew Scudder's tenth appearance. He's hired by a drug dealer whose wife has been savagely murdered, and Scudder's pursuit of the faceless killers leads him on a chase through Manhattan and Brooklyn, with an unforgettable denouement in Green-Wood Cemetery. TJ...
Kellers Hitparade
Series: Keller, Book 3. Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 97,350. Language: German. Originally Published: October 28, 2019 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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: ein neuer Typus Held für neue, unsichere Zeiten: nicht aus der Ruhe zu bringen, kompetent, durch und durch Profi. Ob es nun eine lästige Ehefrau, ein alternder Baseballprofi, ein...
Eine Kerze für die Stadtstreicherin
Series: Matthew Scudder Kurzgeschichten, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 16,520. Language: German. Originally Published: September 13, 2017 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
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 Sins of the Fathers‹), erschien 1975, der 17. und bislang letzte Roman der Reihe, ›A Drop of the Hard Stuff‹, wurde 2011 veröffentlicht. Im Laufe der Jahre verfasste ich auch elf Kurzgeschichten...
A Strange Kind of Love
Series: Collection of Classic Erotica, Book 6. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 51,840. Language: English. Originally Published: September 6, 2018 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Urban
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 out for a year to hang on to a summer job at Scott Meredith's literary agency and bucket shop. It was wonderful training, but after a year there I decided I should go back to school, where I had...
Thirty
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 52,410. Language: English. Originally Published: August 3, 2016 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit
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 Erotica, writing no end of books for Midwood, Nightstand, Beacon, et.al. It was a wonderful training ground, a comfortingly forgiving medium...
Tief bei den ersten Toten
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 4. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 59,270. Language: German. Originally Published: June 5, 2017 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
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 Frauen ermordet zu haben – aber er schwört, dass ein Nachahmer für den Mord an Barbara Ettinger...
La Volontà del Popolo
Series: Matthew Scudder, Book 13. Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 92,730. Language: Italian. Originally Published: May 4, 2020 by Lawrence Block. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
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 ha regalato agli appassionati di mystery un altro romanzo di Scudder magnificamente strutturato. ~Thomas Gaughan, Booklist La Volontà del Popolo è il tredicesimo romanzo che ha per protagonista...
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