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Author Information for Lawrence Block (1938-)

Photo courtesy of Jon Jordan

Homepage : http://www.lawrenceblock.com
Also Known As: Sheldon Lord
Birth Date: Jun 24, 1938
Interview: Interview by Jon Jordan
Award: Winner 1994 MWA Grand Master
Award: Winner 2002 Shamus Award (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Award: Winner 2004 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger (Lifetime Achievement)

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    Books In Classes: [Mystery] [Non-Fiction] [Reference] [Fiction]
    Books In Genres: [Private Investigator] [Cozy] [Writer's Resources] [Hard Boiled] [Noir] [Thriller] [Espionage] [True Crime]
    Books In Database: 77
Website : International Association of Media Tie-In Writers

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Bibliography - Fiction Books by Lawrence Block

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     Bernie Rhodenbarr
     Chip Harrison
     Evan Tanner
     Hard Case Crime
     Keller
     Leo Haig
     Matthew Scudder

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Five Great Novels (©2005)
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon UK PB
Comment: Omnibus: Coward's Kiss, Grifter's Game, You Could Call it Murder, The Girl With The Long Green Heart, and Deadly Honeymoon.

Sabotage : Alfred Hitchcock Classics (©2005) 352 pp.
Mystery Espionage Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC

Blood on Their Hands (©2003) 352 pp.
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]

Small Town (©2003) 464 pp.
Mystery Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] [Jon Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine - RAM] [Sarah - RAM] [Woodstock - RAM]
Location: New York City

Enough Rope (©2002)
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US HC Amazon US ADOBE Reader eBook Amazon US MSReader eBook Amazon Canada HC

Murder Among Friends (©2000)
Mystery [Short Stories]
Comment: flashback short story

Master's Choice, Volume II (©2000) 384 pp.
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]
Nominated for 2001 Anthony Award (Best Anthology / Short Story Collection)

Master's Choice (©1999) 256 pp.
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]

Some Days You Get the Bear (©1993)
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Like a Lamb to Slaughter (©1984)
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Sometimes They Bite (©1983)
Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Ariel (©1980) 224 pp.
Mystery Thriller Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Not Comin' Home to You (©1974)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Triumph of Evil (©1971)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

After the First Death (©1969)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Such Men Are Dangerous (©1969)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Specialists (©1969)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Girl With the Long Green Heart (©1965)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Coward's Kiss (©1961)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Mona Mona (©1961)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Comment: See Grifter's Game

You Could Call It Murder (©1961)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Spider, Spin Me a Web
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Ehrengraph Defense
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Book Series : Bernie Rhodenbarr

- Bookseller/Burglar
- Region: New York City Urban

# 11 The Burglar on the Prowl (©2004) 320 pp.
Mystery Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] [Woodstock - RAM]

# 10 The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis (©2000)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

# 9 The Burglar in the Rye (©1999) 280 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] [Pat Reid - RAM]

# 8 The Burglar in the Library (©1997) 400 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM]

# 7 The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (©1995) 400 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB

# 6 The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (©1994) 304 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB

# 5 The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (©1983) 234 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]

# 4 The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (©1980)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB

# 3 The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (©1979)
Mystery Cozy Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB
Winner 1979 Nero Wolfe Award

# 2 The Burglar in the Closet (©1978) 222 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

# 1 Burglars Can't Be Choosers (©1977) 320 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Book Series : Chip Harrison

# 4 The Topless Tulip Caper (©1975)
Mystery
Comment: AKA The Five Little Rich Girls

# 3 Make Out With Murder (©1974)
Mystery

# 2 Chip Harrison Scores Again (©1971)
Fiction

# 1 No Score (©1970)
Fiction

Book Series : Evan Tanner

- Region: Rural

# 8 Tanner on Ice (©1998) 256 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
"Block's sleepless agent has been on ice for over 20 years, literally. He was cryogenically frozen by Scandanavian agents to get him out of the way. Since he can't sleep it does not take him long to get back up to speed, and the super secret agency he did odd jobs for promptly sends him off to Southeast Asia to underhandedly promote the interests of the corporate sponsors that bought the agency out when the government cut it's appropriations. Well maybe the tropical heat will help the chill Tanner can't get out of his bones since the hybernation." - E. Trevanion Jonsson

# 7 Me Tanner, You Jane (©1970) 224 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

# 6 Here Comes a Hero (©1968)
Mystery

# 5 Tanner's Tiger (©1968) 256 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Tanner's Virgin (©1968) 200 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC

# 4 Two For Tanner (©1967)
Mystery
Reviews Available by: [Jaynie - Australia]
Comment: AKA The Scoreless Thai

# 3 Tanner's Twelve Swingers (©1967) 224 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

# 2 The Cancelled Czech (©1966) 224 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]

# 1 The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (©1966) 224 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Book Series : Hard Case Crime

- Original and reprinted hard-boiled detective novels / Packaged to look like 1940s and 1950s thrillers
- Visit our series page for Hard Case Crime.

Killing Castro (©2008) 208 pp.
Mystery Hard Boiled Noir Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

A Diet of Treacle (©2008) 256 pp.
Mystery Hard Boiled Noir Thriller Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Lucky at Cards 220 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Comment: Re-issued in 2007 - Unavailable for over 40 years

Grifter's Game (©2004) 205 pp.
Mystery Hard Boiled Noir Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Comment: First printed in 1961 as Mona

Book Series : Keller

- Hit Man

# 4 Hit and Run (©2008) 304 pp.
Mystery Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC

# 3 Hit Parade (©2006) 336 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]

# 1 Hit Man (©1998)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
"Lawrence Block's The Hitman is a whimsical look at the life and times of a "Hit man's hitman". It's almost a spoof on itself, treating as almost incidental what a hitman does for a living, while it explores his hopes, fears and career worries." - Jeff Kreider - RAM

Book Series : Leo Haig

- Private Investigator
- Region: New York City Urban

Book Series : Matthew Scudder

- Private Investigator
- Region: New York City Urban

# 16 All the Flowers Are Dying (©2005) 304 pp.
Mystery Private Investigator Amazon US HC Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Ali Karim - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] [Pat Reid - RAM] [Woodstock - RAM]

# 15 Hope to Die (©2001) 364 pp.
Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Carl Brookins - RAM]     [Luke Croll - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Jon Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine - RAM]
"Here is a master with some of his finest writing. A Matt Scudder who is older, more settled, living a good life and in a stable, satisfying relationship. If this book doesn't have quite the edge of earlier Scudders, it still will enthrall and engage a reader. Scudder realized he attended a concert with people who were murdered that night. With no client, and a closed case, Scudder picks away at his uneasiness until things begin to unravel. This novel is at one with earlier Scudders, except in a couple of interesting ways. Here are multiple viewpoints and this book is much darker than previous books by Block." - Carl Brookins - RAM

# 12 A Long Line of Dead Men (©1997) 338 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Nominated for 1995 Shamus Award (Best P.I. Novel)

# 11 The Devil Knows You're Dead (©1994)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Winner 1994 Shamus Award (Best P.I. Novel)

# 9 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (©1991) 309 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Nominated for 1992 Shamus Award (Best P.I. Novel)

# 8 A Ticket to the Boneyard (©1990) 341 pp.
Mystery Private Investigator Noir Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Nominated for 1991 Shamus Award (Best P.I. Novel)

# 7 Out on the Cutting Edge (©1989)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Nominated for 1990 Shamus Award (Best P.I. Novel)

# 5 Eight Million Ways to Die (©1982) 336 pp.
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Winner 1983 Shamus Award (Best P.I. Novel)

# 1 The Sins of the Fathers (©1976)
Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by: [John Purcell, Jr. - RAM]

Bibliography - Non-Fiction Books by Lawrence Block

Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains (©2004) 304 pp.
Non-Fiction Mystery True Crime [Short Stories] Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC

Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (©1994) 256 pp.
Reference Writer's Resources Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by: [Jennifer Jordan]

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