Lawrence Block ist ein hoch angesehener US-amerikanischer Romanautor, der vor allem für seine herausragende Arbeit im Krimi-Genre bekannt ist. Geboren in Buffalo, New York, besuchte Block das Antioch College, schloss es jedoch nicht ab. Seine Schriftstellerkarriere begann in den 1950er Jahren, als er unter Pseudonym in der Sparte der midcentury Erotik schrieb. Blocks erstes Kurzgeschichte, "You Can't Lose", wurde in der Februarausgabe 1958 von Manhunt veröffentlicht. Sein erstes Buch, Mona, wurde 1961 unter seinem eigenen Namen veröffentlicht und später als Sweet Slow Death neu aufgelegt.
Block ist am besten für seine Serienfiguren bekannt, darunter Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner und Keller. Diese Figuren sind beliebte Größen im Krimi-Genre geworden und Blocks gewandte Erzählweise und Charakterentwicklung haben ihm eine hohe Anerkennung und eine treue Anhängerschaft eingebracht. Neben seiner Serienarbeit hat Block auch Einzelbände und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht.
Die Arbeit von Block wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen und Auszeichnungen gewürdigt. Er ist ein Großmeister der Mystery Writers of America und hat den Edgar und Shamus Award je viermal gewonnen. Er hat auch zweimal den Japanese Maltese Falcon Award, den Nero Wolfe Award und den Philip Marlowe Award gewonnen. Im Jahr 2005 erhielt Block den Diamond Dagger für Lebensleistung von der Crime Writers Association des Vereinigten Königreichs. Er wurde mit dem Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award von Mystery Ink magazine und dem Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer für Lebensleistung im Kurzgeschichtenbereich geehrt. In Frankreich wurde er zum Grand Maitre du Roman Noir ernannt und zweimal mit dem Societe 813-Preis ausgezeichnet.
Block ist ein produktiver Schriftsteller, der über 100 Bücher und unzählige Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht hat. Seine Arbeit wurde für Film und Fernsehen adaptiert, wobei mehrere seiner Bücher zu Filmen wurden, darunter A Walk Among the Tombstones. Block hat auch für episodisches Fernsehen und den Wong Kar-wai-Film My Blueberry Nights geschrieben. Er ist eine respektierte Autorität in Bezug auf Schreiben und hat 14 Jahre lang eine monatliche Lehrkolumne für Writer's Digest geschrieben. Seine Bücher für Schriftsteller, einschließlich Telling Lies for Fun & Profit und The Liar's Bible, gelten als Klassiker auf diesem Gebiet.
Bernie Rhodenbarr Books
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Burglars Can't Be Choosers
1977
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The Burglar in the Closet
1978
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
1979
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The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
1980
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The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian
1983
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Like a Thief in the Night
1983
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
1994
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The Burglar Takes a Cat
1994
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The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
1995
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The Burglar in the Library
1997
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The Burglar in the Rye
1998
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The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis
1999
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The Burglar on the Prowl
2001
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The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke
2011
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A Bad Night for Burglars
2011
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The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
2013
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The Burglar in Short Order
2020
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The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown
2022
Chip Harrison Books
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No Score
1970
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Chip Harrison Scores Again
1971
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Make Out with Murder
1974
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The Topless Tulip Caper
1975
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As Dark as Christmas Gets
2011
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Death of the Mallory Queen
2016
Chip Harrison Series in Chronological Order
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No Score
1970
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Chip Harrison Scores Again
1971
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Make Out with Murder
1974
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The Topless Tulip Caper
1975
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Death of the Mallory Queen
2016
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As Dark as Christmas Gets
2011
Evan Tanner Books
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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
1966
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The Canceled Czech
1966
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Tanner's Twelve Swingers
1967
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Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin
1968
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The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner
1968
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Tanner's Tiger
1968
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Me Tanner, You Jane
1986
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Tanner on Ice
1998
Jill Emerson Books (as Jill Emerson)
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A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous
1972
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Getting Off
2011
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The Trouble with Eden
2016
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Shadows
2016
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Enough of Sorrow
2016
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Threesome
2016
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Warm and Willing
2016
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Thirty
2016
John Keller Books
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Hit Man
1998
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Hit List
2000
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Hit Parade
2006
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Hit and Run
2008
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Keller in Dallas
2009
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Hit Me
2012
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Keller's Adjustment
2012
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Keller on the Spot
2013
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Keller's Therapy
2013
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Keller's Horoscope
2013
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Keller's Fedora
2016
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Keller's Homecoming
2016
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Keller's Designated Hitter
2016
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Keller the Dogkiller
2016
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Keller in Des Moines
2016
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Quotidian Keller
2017
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Keller on Horseback
2021
Kit Tolliver Books
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If You Can't Stand the Heat
2013
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Rude Awakening
2013
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You Can Call Me Lucky
2013
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Clean Slate
2013
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Waitress Wanted
2013
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Jilling
2013
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Conjugal Rites
2013
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One Kind Favor I Ask of You
2013
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Don't Get in the Car
2013
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Fun with Brady and Angelica
2013
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Zeroing In
2013
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Unfinished Business
2013
Lou Largo Books (with William Ard)
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Babe in the Woods
1960
Manhattan Noir Books
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Manhattan Noir
2006
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Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics
2008
Matthew Scudder Books
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The Sins of the Fathers
1976
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Time to Murder and Create
1976
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In the Midst of Death
1976
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A Stab in the Dark
1981
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Eight Million Ways to Die
1982
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
1986
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Out on the Cutting Edge
1989
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A Ticket to the Boneyard
1990
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A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
1991
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
1992
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The Devil Knows You're Dead
1993
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A Long Line of Dead Men
1994
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Even the Wicked
1996
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Out the Window
1997
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Everybody Dies
1998
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Hope to Die
2001
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A Moment of Wrong Thinking
2002
18
All the Flowers are Dying
2005
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff
2011
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Let's Get Lost
2011
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A Candle for the Bag Lady
2012
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A Time to Scatter Stones
2018
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The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder
2023
Murderous Christmas Stories Books
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Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season
2016
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Murder on Christmas Eve
2017
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A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season
2018
Paul Kavanagh Books (as Paul Kavanagh)
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Such Men are Dangerous
1969
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The Triumph of Evil
1972
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Not Comin' Home to You
1974
Seven Deadly Sins Books
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Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire
2001
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Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire
2001
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Speaking of Wrath
2002
Transgressions Books
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Transgressions
2005
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Transgressions, Vol. 2
2006
Einzelromane
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Carla
1958
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Into the Night
1959
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69 Barrow Street
1959
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Campus Tramp
1959
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Candy
1960
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A Girl Called Honey
1960
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Kept
1960
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A Strange Kind of Love
1960
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The Adulterers
1960
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Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death
1961
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A Diet of Treacle
1961
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Cinderella Sims
1961
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Killing Castro
1961
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Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross
1961
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$20 Lust / Cinderella Sims
1961
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The Twisted Ones
1961
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Borderline
1962
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The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder
1962
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Strange Embrace
1962
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Sin Hellcat
1962
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Lucky at Cards
1964
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The Girl with the Long Green Heart
1965
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Deadly Honeymoon
1967
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After the First Death
1969
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The Specialists
1969
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Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man
1971
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A Week as Andrea Benstock
1975
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Ariel
1979
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Code of Arms
1981
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Random Walk
1988
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The Lost Cases of Ed London
2001
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Small Town
2002
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Community of Women
2010
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The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes
2015
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Passport to Peril
2016
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Sinner Man
2016
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April North / High School Sex Club
2019
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Dead Girl Blues
2020
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
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Collecting Ackermans
1979
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By the Dawn's Early Light
1984
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The Merciful Angel of Death
1993
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A Chance to Get Even
2011
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Dolly's Trash & Treasures
2011
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Welcome to the Real World
2011
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Who Knows Where It Goes
2011
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Scenarios
2011
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Headaches and Bad Dreams
2011
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Sweet Little Hands
2011
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You Don't Even Feel It
2011
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In For a Penny
2011
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Three in the Side Pocket
2011
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Like a Bone in the Throat
2011
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Nothing Short of Highway Robbery
2013
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The Ehrengraf Fandango
2014
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I Know How to Pick 'Em
2014
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Autumn at the Automat
2016
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Resume Speed
2016
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen
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Like a Lamb to Slaughter
1984
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Sometimes They Bite
1984
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Some Days You Get the Bear
1993
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By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories
1994
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The Collected Mystery Stories
1999
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Enough Rope
2002
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The Crazy Years
2004
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Catch and Release
2011
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Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf
2014
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Resume Speed and Other Stories
2018
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From Sea to Stormy Sea
2019
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Playing Games
2023
Stücke
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How Far
2011
Sachbücher
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The Wife-Swap Report
1970
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3 is Not a Crowd
1971
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Sex and the Stewardess
1972
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The Sex Therapists
1972
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Different Strokes
1974
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Total Sexuality
1974
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Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel
1979
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Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers
1981
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Write for Your Life
1986
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Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers
1988
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After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block
1995
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Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains
2004
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Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir
2009
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The Liar's Bible
2011
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The Liar's Companion
2011
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The Male Hustler
2012
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Wide Open
2012
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Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution
2012
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Come Fly With Us
2012
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Beyond Group Sex
2012
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The Crime of Our Lives
2015
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Afterthoughts: Version 2.0
2021
Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections
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One Night Stands and Lost Weekends
1999
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The Night and the Music
2011
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books (with Joe R. Lansdale, with Joyce Carol Oates, with Megan Abbott, with Duane Swierczynski, with Andrew Vachss, with Francine Prose, with Jonathan Santlofer)
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L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
2010
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Black Dahlia White Rose
2011
Lawrence Block Anthologies
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Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils
1983
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The Eyes Have It
1984
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Chapter and Hearse
1985
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The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction
1988
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The Perfect Murder
1991
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The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991
1992
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Monsters in Our Midst
1993
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The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992
1993
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Dark Crimes 2
1993
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The New Mystery
1993
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The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion
1993
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The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem
1994
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The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993
1994
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Bad Behavior
1995
15
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996
1995
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Night Screams
1996
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First Cases, Volume 1
1996
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Win, Lose or Die
1996
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Law and Order
1997
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The Plot Thickens
1997
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First Cases, Volume 2
1997
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Crimes of Passion
1997
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Mystery's Most Wanted
1997
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Hot Blood X
1998
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The Best of the Best
1998
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Murder on the Run
1998
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The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997
1998
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1998
1998
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Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas
1999
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1999
1999
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Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them
2000
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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
2000
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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1
2000
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Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories
2000
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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2
2000
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2001
2001
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Opening Shots, Vol. II
2001
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Pulp Masters
2001
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The Mighty Johns
2002
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Most Wanted
2002
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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3
2002
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Blood on Their Hands
2003
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Bronx Noir
2003
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The World\\\'s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 4
2003
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High Stakes
2003
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In the Shadow of the Master
2003
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Greatest Hits
2005
48
Transgressions
2005
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Lesbian Pulp Fiction
2005
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Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics
2005
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These Guns for Hire
2006
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Transgressions, Vol. 2
2006
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
2007
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A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
2008
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L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
2010
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The Sounds Of Crime
2010
57
The Dark End of the Street
2010
58
Indian Country Noir
2010
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Masters of Noir, Volume One
2010
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The Shamus Winners
2010
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Masters of Noir, Volume Three
2010
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
2011
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Warriors 3
2011
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In Pursuit of Spenser
2012
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Psychos
2012
66
USA Noir
2013
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s
2013
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Inherit the Dead
2013
69
Dangerous Women
2013
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Buffalo Noir
2013
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Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories
2014
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Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC)
2015
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Mostly Murder
2016
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In Sunlight or In Shadow
2016
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Gym Rat & Murder Club
2016
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Alive in Shape and Color
2017
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Florida Happens
2018
78
At Home in the Dark
2019
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The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe
2020
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The Darkling Halls of Ivy
2020
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Collectibles
2021
82
Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds