Colaborar en denuncias de corrupción policial no hizo a Jerry Broadfield un policía popular entre sus compañeros. Ahora que han hallado en su piso una prostituta muerta, sólo confiará en él Matthew Scudder, un...
Nueva York tiene infinidad de maneras de acabar con sus habitantes y Matthew Scudder, expolicía y alcohólico, lo sabe mejor que nadie. Kim era una prostituta de lujo que también intuía esa verdad implacable y por eso quer&iacut...
UN ASESINATO ANUNCIADO. Y UN DETECTIVE MEMORABLE PARA RESOLVERLO. Spinner Jablon sabía que corría muchos. riesgos dedicándose al chantaje. Ahora está muerto y todo apunta a que una de las víctimas a las que extorsionaba...
La chica era muy joven. Se había distanciado de su familia y vivía en Greenwich Village hasta que la. asesinaron a navajazos. Ahora su padre quiere saber en qué se había convertido ella y qué secretos ocultaba para darle...
Nueva York tiene infinidad de maneras de acabar con sus habitantes y Matthew Scudder, expolicía y. alcohólico, lo sabe mejor que nadie. Kim era una prostituta de lujo que también intuía esa verdad implacable y por eso. quer&iac...
A COLLECTION.. OF COLLECTIONS What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: those whoâve got the collecting bug care passionately-sometimes violent...
Reporter Ted Lindsay is trying to forget his ex-wife, and New York City's tough streets are just what the doctor ordered. They're also filled with alluring women, but only one catches Ted's eye. Cinderella Sims is not only beautiful, she's...
Id no sooner finished CARLA, my first book for Midwood Tower, than Harry Shorten asked for another. Id just returned to Antioch College, where after two years as an undistinguished student Id dropped out for a year to hang on to a summer job at Scott Mere...
For almost three years, novelist and short-story writer Lawrence Blockâs monthly column, âGenerally Speaking,â was one of the most popular features in Linnâs Stamp News . A general...
Danny Duncan drives his fatherâs 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...
I was in New York, newly married, living at 110 West 69th Street. I was writing short stories for crime fiction magazines, erotic novels for Midwood and Nightstand, and fielding assignments that my agent steered in my direction. Two of these were from...
In 1961, Lawrence Block was living in New York and earning a living writing Midcentury Erotica and crime fiction. Heâd just sold his first book under his own name, Grifterâs Game, to Gold Medal Books. (They insisted...
âOriginally marketed as "occult horror", Ariel is neither. It's a story of the madness that lies just under the surface, and what it takes to bring it out; the need to give evil a face and a name. Who better to scapegoat...
Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that...
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 about the work, and arranged for its distribution as an ebook. Hereâs...
Five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote 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...
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,...