Lawrence Block: 119 books

In Roseburg, Oregon, a bartender walks off his job and heads east with no destination in mind. The Cascades are in his way, but he doesn't let that stop him. He keeps walking. And other people are moved to join him, and as they walk the group generates a sort of collective energy, and unexpected...

Here’s CHIP HARRISON—the second series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES... Chip’s second adventure in CHIP HARRISON SCORES AGAIN begins when our lad finds a discarded wallet holding a bus ticket to Bordentown, South Carolina. Instead...

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 contemporary literature was experiencing an enormous flowering of sexuality. Even as the whole culture...

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 Mystery Magazinein 1960, and features Rice's hard-drinking yet clear-thinking...

A thriller loaded with international intrigue from mystery master Lawrence Block. Struggling folksinger Ellen Cameron can't believe her luck. Not only is the State Department sponsoring her trip to West Berlin, but her agent has arranged for her to tour Ireland. It's just the break she needs....

Strange Embrace started out to be a novel based on Johnny Midnight, a TV series which everyone has long since forgotten. Except, of course, that nothing manages to be forgotten in the Internet Age. I, whose job it was to knock out 50,000 words of Johnny Midnightish prose and dialogue, had forgotten...

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...

Some years ago, Lawrence Block wrote a successful series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior. This volume is an examination, through case histories and interviews, of female bisexuality. One of this book's six versatile ladies sums it up like this: "When we first...

Some years ago, Lawrence Block wrote a successful series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior. This volume is an examination, through a single detailed case history, of a marriage given over to the exchange of sexual partners. This was John Warren Wells' first book for Dell,...

Shadows, which was not only the debut of Jill Emerson but my own very first novel, is the story of a young woman, Jan Marlowe, who comes to New York fresh out of college, takes an apartment in the Bohemian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, and seeks to find herself—and specifically to come to terms...

« Ce livre vous mettra une grande beigne entre les oreilles. Il est formidable ! » —Publishers Weekly « Vous fait l’effet d’une dose de sels et pique comme de l’iode. » —Kirkus Reviews Dans ce thriller militaire noir écrit au début de sa longue carrière, Lawrence Block raconte l'histoire...

Ein packender Kurzroman über abrupte Enden und Neuanfänge aus der Feder des legendären Autors von »Ruhet in Frieden - A Walk Among the Tombstones«. Als der Reisende Bill einen Aushang im Fenster eines Restaurants sieht, greift er nach seiner Tasche und steigt spontan aus dem Bus aus. Eine...

"MWA Grand Master Block (The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons) adds a generous dollop of eroticism to this ingeniously plotted study in criminality and corruption. Divorced and retired New York cop Doak Miller has moved to a small Florida town and arranged to work as a semiofficial undercover operator...

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....