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Lawrence Block

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A Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, Lawrence Block is a four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. The author of more than fifty books and numerous short stories, he is a devout New Yorker who spends much of his time traveling.

Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1983) : Eight Million Ways to Die
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1990) : Out on the Cutting Edge
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1991) : A Ticket to the Boneyard
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1992) : A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1994) : The Devil Knows You're Dead
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : A Long Line of Dead Men
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : A Long Line of Dead Men
Series and More Novels and More

Lou Largo (with William Ard)
Babe in the Woods (1960)

Evan Tanner
1. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
2. The Cancelled Czech (1966)
3. Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
4. Two for Tanner (1967)
aka The Scoreless Thai
5. Tanner's Tiger (1968)
6. Here Comes a Hero (1968)
aka Tanner's Virgin
7. Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
8. Tanner on Ice (1998)

Chip Harrison (writing as Chip Harrison)
3. Make Out with Murder (1974)
aka Five Little Rich Girls
No Score (1970)
Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)

Keller
1. Hit Man (1998)
2. Hit List (2000)
3. Hit Parade (2006)
4. Hit and Run (2008)

Matthew Scudder
In the Midst of Death (1976)
The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
Time to Murder and Create (1977)
A Stab in the Dark (1981)
Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986)
Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990)
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993)
A Long Line of Dead Men (1994)
Even the Wicked (1996)
The Matt Scudder Mysteries (omnibus) (1997)
Everybody Dies (1998)
Hope to Die (2001)
All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)
A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)

Bernie Rhodenbarr
Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
The Burglar Who Painted like Mondrian (1983)
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
The Burglar in the Library (1997)
The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis (1999)
The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)

 

Novels
The Specialists (1960)
Kept (1960) (writing as Sheldon Lord)
The Case of the Pornographic Photos (1961)
aka Markham / You Could Call it Murder
Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961)
aka Coward's Kiss
Mona (1961)
aka Sweet Slow Death / Grifter's Game
Warm and Willing (1964) (writing as Jill Emerson)
Enough of Sorrow (1965) (writing as Jill Emerson)
The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
After the First Death (1969)
Such Men Are Dangerous (1969) (writing as Paul Kavanagh)
Threesome (1970) (writing as Jill Emerson)
The Triumph of Evil (1971) (writing as Paul Kavanagh)
Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
Sensuous (1972) (writing as Jill Emerson)
The Trouble with Eden (1973) (writing as Jill Emerson)
Not Comin' Home to You (1974) (writing as Paul Kavanagh)
A Week As Andrea Benstock (1975) (writing as Jill Emerson)
Ariel (1979)
Code of Arms (1982) (with Harold King)
Into the Night (1987) (with Cornell Woolrich)
Random Walk (1988)
The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime (1991) (with Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman and Jack Hitt)
Batman's Helpers (1999)
The Lost Cases of Ed London (2001)
Small Town: A Novel of New York (2002)
Cinderella Sims (2002)
Lucky at Cards (2007)
A Diet of Treacle (2008)
Killing Castro (2009)

Non fiction
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print (1979)
Telling Lies for Fun and Profit (1981)
Write for Your Life (1986)
Spider, Spin Me a Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers (1988)
After Hours: Conversations with Lawrence Block (1995)
Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains (2004)
Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)
Introducing Myself & Others (2010)

Collections
Sometimes They Bite (1983)
Like a Lamb to the Slaughter: Stories (1984)
Some Days You Get the Bear: Stories (1992)
By the Dawn's Early Light: and Other Stories (1994)
Death Wish and Other Stories (1994)
One Night Stands: Early Stories (1999)
The Collected Mystery Stories (1999)
Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
One Night Stands and Lost Weekends (2008)

Anthologies edited
Murder on the Run (1998)
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas (1999)
Master's Choice (1999)
Opening Shots (2000)
Great Mystery Series: 11 of the Best Mystery Short Stories from Alfred Hitchcock's And Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazines (2000) (with Mary Higgins Clark and Ralph McInerny)
Speaking of Lust (2001)
Speaking of Greed (2001)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (2001) (with Otto Penzler)
Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories (2001)
Speaking of Wrath (2002)
Blood on Their Hands (2003)
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (2008)

Series contributed to
Transgressions (with John Farris and Stephen King)
Terror's Echo (2005)

Short stories
Make a Prison (1958)
Nothing Short of Highway Robbery (1977)
Hot Eyes, Cold Eyes (1978)
How Would You Like It? (1993)
The Tulsa Experience (1993)
The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis (1994)
Headaches and Bad Dreams (1997)
Anthologies edited
Murder on the Run (1998)
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas (1999)
Master's Choice (1999)
Opening Shots (2000)
Great Mystery Series: 11 of the Best Mystery Short Stories from Alfred Hitchcock's And Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazines (2000) (with Mary Higgins Clark and Ralph McInerny)
Speaking of Lust (2001)
Speaking of Greed (2001)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (2001) (with Otto Penzler)
Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories (2001)
Speaking of Wrath (2002)
Blood on Their Hands (2003)
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (2008)

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