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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is a highly respected American novelist, known for his exceptional work in the crime fiction genre. Born in Buffalo, New York, Block attended Antioch College but did not graduate. His writing career began in the 1950s when he started writing pseudonymously in the field of midcentury erotica. Block's first short story, "You Can't Lose," was published in the February 1958 issue of Manhunt. His first book, Mona, was published under his own name in 1961 and was later reissued as Sweet Slow Death.

Block is best known for his series characters, including Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, and Keller. These characters have become popular fixtures in the crime fiction genre, and Block's skillful storytelling and character development have earned him critical acclaim and a loyal following. In addition to his series work, Block has also published standalone novels and short stories.

Block's writing has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades. He is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America and has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times each. He has also won the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe and Philip Marlowe awards. In 2005, Block received the Diamond Dagger for Life Achievement from the Crime Writers Association of the UK. He has been honored with the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award from Mystery Ink magazine and the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in the short story. In France, he has been proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has twice been awarded the Societe 813 trophy.

Block is a prolific writer who has published over 100 books and countless short stories. His writing has been adapted for film and television, with several of his books being turned into movies, including A Walk Among the Tombstones. Block has also written for episodic television and the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a respected authority on writing and has written a monthly instructional column for Writer's Digest for 14 years. His books for writers, including Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and The Liar's Bible, are considered classics in the field.
Bernie Rhodenbarr Books
# Title Year
1 Burglars Can't Be Choosers 1977
2 The Burglar in the Closet 1978
3 The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling 1979
4 The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza 1980
5 The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian 1983
6 Like a Thief in the Night 1983
7 The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams 1994
8 The Burglar Takes a Cat 1994
9 The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart 1995
10 The Burglar in the Library 1997
11 The Burglar in the Rye 1998
12 The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis 1999
13 The Burglar on the Prowl 2001
14 The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke 2011
15 A Bad Night for Burglars 2011
16 The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons 2013
17 The Burglar in Short Order 2020
18 The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown 2022
Chip Harrison Books
# Title Year
1 No Score 1970
2 Chip Harrison Scores Again 1971
3 Make Out with Murder 1974
4 The Topless Tulip Caper 1975
5 As Dark as Christmas Gets 2011
6 Death of the Mallory Queen 2016
Chip Harrison Series in Chronological Order
# Title Year
1 No Score 1970
2 Chip Harrison Scores Again 1971
3 Make Out with Murder 1974
4 The Topless Tulip Caper 1975
5 Death of the Mallory Queen 2016
6 As Dark as Christmas Gets 2011
Evan Tanner Books
# Title Year
1 The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep 1966
2 The Canceled Czech 1966
3 Tanner's Twelve Swingers 1967
4 Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin 1968
5 The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner 1968
6 Tanner's Tiger 1968
7 Me Tanner, You Jane 1986
8 Tanner on Ice 1998
Jill Emerson Books (as Jill Emerson)
# Title Year
1 A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous 1972
2 Getting Off 2011
3 The Trouble with Eden 2016
4 Shadows 2016
5 Enough of Sorrow 2016
6 Threesome 2016
7 Warm and Willing 2016
8 Thirty 2016
John Keller Books
# Title Year
1 Hit Man 1998
2 Hit List 2000
3 Hit Parade 2006
4 Hit and Run 2008
5 Keller in Dallas 2009
6 Hit Me 2012
7 Keller's Adjustment 2012
8 Keller on the Spot 2013
9 Keller's Therapy 2013
10 Keller's Horoscope 2013
11 Keller's Fedora 2016
12 Keller's Homecoming 2016
13 Keller's Designated Hitter 2016
14 Keller the Dogkiller 2016
15 Keller in Des Moines 2016
16 Quotidian Keller 2017
17 Keller on Horseback 2021
Kit Tolliver Books
# Title Year
1 If You Can't Stand the Heat 2013
2 Rude Awakening 2013
3 You Can Call Me Lucky 2013
4 Clean Slate 2013
5 Waitress Wanted 2013
6 Jilling 2013
7 Conjugal Rites 2013
8 One Kind Favor I Ask of You 2013
9 Don't Get in the Car 2013
10 Fun with Brady and Angelica 2013
11 Zeroing In 2013
12 Unfinished Business 2013
Lou Largo Books (with William Ard)
# Title Year
1 Babe in the Woods 1960
Manhattan Noir Books
# Title Year
1 Manhattan Noir 2006
2 Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics 2008
Matthew Scudder Books
# Title Year
1 The Sins of the Fathers 1976
2 Time to Murder and Create 1976
3 In the Midst of Death 1976
4 A Stab in the Dark 1981
5 Eight Million Ways to Die 1982
6 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes 1986
7 Out on the Cutting Edge 1989
8 A Ticket to the Boneyard 1990
9 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse 1991
10 A Walk Among the Tombstones 1992
11 The Devil Knows You're Dead 1993
12 A Long Line of Dead Men 1994
13 Even the Wicked 1996
14 Out the Window 1997
15 Everybody Dies 1998
16 Hope to Die 2001
17 A Moment of Wrong Thinking 2002
18 All the Flowers are Dying 2005
19 A Drop of the Hard Stuff 2011
20 Let's Get Lost 2011
21 A Candle for the Bag Lady 2012
22 A Time to Scatter Stones 2018
23 The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder 2023
Murderous Christmas Stories Books
# Title Year
1 Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season 2016
2 Murder on Christmas Eve 2017
3 A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season 2018
Paul Kavanagh Books (as Paul Kavanagh)
# Title Year
1 Such Men are Dangerous 1969
2 The Triumph of Evil 1972
3 Not Comin' Home to You 1974
Seven Deadly Sins Books
# Title Year
1 Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire 2001
2 Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire 2001
3 Speaking of Wrath 2002
Transgressions Books
# Title Year
1 Transgressions 2005
2 Transgressions, Vol. 2 2006
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Carla 1958
2 Into the Night 1959
3 69 Barrow Street 1959
4 Campus Tramp 1959
5 Candy 1960
6 A Girl Called Honey 1960
7 Kept 1960
8 A Strange Kind of Love 1960
9 The Adulterers 1960
10 Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death 1961
11 A Diet of Treacle 1961
12 Cinderella Sims 1961
13 Killing Castro 1961
14 Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross 1961
15 $20 Lust / Cinderella Sims 1961
16 The Twisted Ones 1961
17 Borderline 1962
18 The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder 1962
19 Strange Embrace 1962
20 Sin Hellcat 1962
21 Lucky at Cards 1964
22 The Girl with the Long Green Heart 1965
23 Deadly Honeymoon 1967
24 After the First Death 1969
25 The Specialists 1969
26 Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man 1971
27 A Week as Andrea Benstock 1975
28 Ariel 1979
29 Code of Arms 1981
30 Random Walk 1988
31 The Lost Cases of Ed London 2001
32 Small Town 2002
33 Community of Women 2010
34 The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes 2015
35 Passport to Peril 2016
36 Sinner Man 2016
37 April North / High School Sex Club 2019
38 Dead Girl Blues 2020
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Collecting Ackermans 1979
2 By the Dawn's Early Light 1984
3 The Merciful Angel of Death 1993
4 A Chance to Get Even 2011
5 Dolly's Trash & Treasures 2011
6 Welcome to the Real World 2011
7 Who Knows Where It Goes 2011
8 Scenarios 2011
9 Headaches and Bad Dreams 2011
10 Sweet Little Hands 2011
11 You Don't Even Feel It 2011
12 In For a Penny 2011
13 Three in the Side Pocket 2011
14 Like a Bone in the Throat 2011
15 Nothing Short of Highway Robbery 2013
16 The Ehrengraf Fandango 2014
17 I Know How to Pick 'Em 2014
18 Autumn at the Automat 2016
19 Resume Speed 2016
Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 Like a Lamb to Slaughter 1984
2 Sometimes They Bite 1984
3 Some Days You Get the Bear 1993
4 By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories 1994
5 The Collected Mystery Stories 1999
6 Enough Rope 2002
7 The Crazy Years 2004
8 Catch and Release 2011
9 Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf 2014
10 Resume Speed and Other Stories 2018
11 From Sea to Stormy Sea 2019
12 Playing Games 2023
Plays
# Title Year
1 How Far 2011
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 The Wife-Swap Report 1970
2 3 is Not a Crowd 1971
3 Sex and the Stewardess 1972
4 The Sex Therapists 1972
5 Different Strokes 1974
6 Total Sexuality 1974
7 Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel 1979
8 Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers 1981
9 Write for Your Life 1986
10 Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers 1988
11 After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block 1995
12 Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains 2004
13 Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir 2009
14 The Liar's Bible 2011
15 The Liar's Companion 2011
16 The Male Hustler 2012
17 Wide Open 2012
18 Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution 2012
19 Come Fly With Us 2012
20 Beyond Group Sex 2012
21 The Crime of Our Lives 2015
22 Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 2021
Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 One Night Stands and Lost Weekends 1999
2 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)
# Title Year
1 L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010
2 Black Dahlia White Rose 2011
Lawrence Block Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils 1983
2 The Eyes Have It 1984
3 Chapter and Hearse 1985
4 The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction 1988
5 The Perfect Murder 1991
6 The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 1992
7 Monsters in Our Midst 1993
8 The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 1993
9 Dark Crimes 2 1993
10 The New Mystery 1993
11 The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion 1993
12 The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem 1994
13 The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 1994
14 Bad Behavior 1995
15 The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 1995
16 Night Screams 1996
17 First Cases, Volume 1 1996
18 Win, Lose or Die 1996
19 Law and Order 1997
20 The Plot Thickens 1997
21 First Cases, Volume 2 1997
22 Crimes of Passion 1997
23 Mystery's Most Wanted 1997
24 Hot Blood X 1998
25 The Best of the Best 1998
26 Murder on the Run 1998
27 The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 1998
28 The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 1998
29 Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas 1999
30 The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 1999
31 Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them 2000
32 The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000
33 The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 2000
34 Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories 2000
35 The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000
36 The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 2001
37 Opening Shots, Vol. II 2001
38 Pulp Masters 2001
39 The Mighty Johns 2002
40 Most Wanted 2002
41 The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002
42 Blood on Their Hands 2003
43 Bronx Noir 2003
44 The World\\\'s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 4 2003
45 High Stakes 2003
46 In the Shadow of the Master 2003
47 Greatest Hits 2005
48 Transgressions 2005
49 Lesbian Pulp Fiction 2005
50 Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics 2005
51 These Guns for Hire 2006
52 Transgressions, Vol. 2 2006
53 The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 2007
54 A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 2008
55 L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010
56 The Sounds Of Crime 2010
57 The Dark End of the Street 2010
58 Indian Country Noir 2010
59 Masters of Noir, Volume One 2010
60 The Shamus Winners 2010
61 Masters of Noir, Volume Three 2010
62 The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 2011
63 Warriors 3 2011
64 In Pursuit of Spenser 2012
65 Psychos 2012
66 USA Noir 2013
67 Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s 2013
68 Inherit the Dead 2013
69 Dangerous Women 2013
70 Buffalo Noir 2013
71 Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories 2014
72 Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC) 2015
73 Mostly Murder 2016
74 In Sunlight or In Shadow 2016
75 Gym Rat & Murder Club 2016
76 Alive in Shape and Color 2017
77 Florida Happens 2018
78 At Home in the Dark 2019
79 The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe 2020
80 The Darkling Halls of Ivy 2020
81 Collectibles 2021
82 Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds 2021