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VJ Books Presents Lawrence Block!
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1993.
Block's famous creation, the ever-evolving Matthew Scudder, was introduced in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop working as an unlicensed private investigator in Hell's Kitchen.
Block's other major series, humorous and much lighter in tone, relates the misadventures of gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. The series is rich in sophisticated dialogue, wit and cynicism. Besides Scudder and Rhodenbarr, Block has written eight novels about Evan Tanner, an adventurer and accidental revolutionary who, as a result of an injury sustained in the Korean War, cannot sleep.
Block created Martin Ehrengraf as a sartorially impeccable lawyer who charged outrageous fees but always get his clients off the hook from whatever they were charged with. Ehrengraf always insisted that the clients he accepted were innocent and never settled for any form of pleading or bargaining.
In 2005 he was honored by being awarded the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.
Block has lived in New York City for decades, setting most of his fiction there, and has come to be very closely associated with the city. He is married to Lynne Block, and has three daughters, Amy Reichel, Jill Block and Alison Pouliot, from an earlier marriage. With Lynne, he spends much of his time traveling (the two have been to nearly 100 countries), but continues to consider New York his home.
To see Lawrence Block's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
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Lawrence Block Bibliography
Matthew Scudder Novels
1. The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
2. In the Midst of Death (1976)
3. Time to Murder and Create (1977)
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 (1997)
14. Everybody Dies (1998)
15. Hope to Die (2001)
16. All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)
17. A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
Bernie Rhodenbarr Novels
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. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
8. The Burglar in the Library (1997)
9. The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
10. The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)
Bernie Rhodenbarr Short Stories
· Like a Thief in the Night (1983)
· The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis (1990)
· The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke (1997)
Evan Tanner Novels
1. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
2. The Canceled Czech (1966)
3. Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
4. The Scoreless Thai (a.k.a. Two for Tanner) (1968)
5. Tanner's Tiger (1968)
6. Here Comes a Hero (a.k.a. Tanner's Virgin) (1968)
7. Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
8. Tanner on Ice (1998)
Chip Harrison Novels/Stories (as Chip Harrison)
1. No Score (1970)
2. Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
3. Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
4. The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
5. "As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997)
Keller Novels
1. Hit Man (1998)
2. Hit List (2000)
3. Hit Parade (2006)
4. Hit and Run (June 2008)
Paul Kavanagh Novels
1. Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
2. The Triumph of Evil (1971)
3. Not Comin' Home to You (1974)
Other Fiction
· $20 Lust (1961) (reissued as Cinderella Sims)
· Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) (reissued as Coward's Kiss)
· Mona (1961) (reissued as Sweet Slow Death and Grifter's Game)
· Markham (1961) (reissued as You Could Call It Murder)
· Pads Are for Passion (1961, as Sheldon Lord) (reissued as A Diet of Treacle)
· Fidel Castro Assassinated (1961, as Lee Duncan) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Killing Castro)
· The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
· Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
· After the First Death (1969)
· The Specialists (1969)
· Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
· Ariel (1980)
· Random Walk (1988)
· Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
· Small Town (2003)
· My Blueberry Nights (2007)
· Lucky at Cards (2007)
· Getting off, A novel of Sex and Violence (2011)
· Strange Embrace/69 Barrow Street (May 2012)
Books for Writers
· Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
· Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981)
· Write For Your Life (1986)
· Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)
· The Liar's Bible (2011)
Memoirs
· Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)
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