Books by Lawrence Block

Chip and his employer, Leo Haig, investigate the murders of Chip's girlfriend and an exotic dancer named Cherry Bounce.

Fans of Lawrence Block will be happy to discover everything they always wanted to know about the respected mystery writer in these intimate conversations with Ernest Bulow.

After a hiatus of more than three years, Mystery Grandmaster Lawrence Block returns to his series about Matt Scudder, a former cop with a difficult, painful past who became a private investigator. In this 16th installment, a woman whom Scudder met at an AA meeting asks him to investigate a dubious-seeming guy she met over the Internet. As Scudder pursues the case, he realizes that he's on the trail of a killer--the same killer from the previous Scudder novel, HOPE TO DIE--and that both he and his wife Elaine are potential victims.

The Edgar Award and Shamus Award-winning author of The Burglar on the Prowl and Small Town sets his latest mystery thriller on the streets of the Big Apple as Matthew Scudder matches wits with a cunning and ruthless monster to save the life of the woman he loves. Reprint.

Matt Scudder, former cop and alcoholic, has had enough. He plans to wind up his investigations, and concentrate on his AA meetings and his wife, Elaine. But he agrees to take on one last case, to check out a man that single woman Louise likes, but suspects is keeping something from her.

Meanwhile on death row, prisoner Preston Applewhite protests his innocence, but unlike most, he finds someone to believe in him, eminent psychologist Arne Bodinson. But the psychologist isn't who he says he is.

There's a killer out there, one who's been dormant for some time and he's on his way to New York to see Matt Scudder.

In his 16th Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying, New York Times best-selling author Lawrence Block takes the series to a new level of suspense and a new depth of characterization. Block puts Scudder, and the listener, at the very edge of the abyss.

A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears, in the face of irrefutable evidence, he did not commit. A psychologist who claims to believe the convict spends hours with the man in his death row cell, and ultimately watches in the gallery as the lethal injection is administered. His work completed, the psychologist heads back to New York City to attend to unfinished business.

Meanwhile, Scudder agrees to investigate the suspicious on-line lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly closer to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final targets may be Matt and Elaine Scudder.

The acclaimed author of Hit List serves as guest editor for this new collection of the finest mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Banks, Peter Robinson, and other notable authors. Simultaneous.

An anthology of nineteen short stories, contributed by members of the Mystery Writers of America, explores the lives of people searching for their own brand of justice after official channels fail, in works by Jeremiah Healy, Brendan DuBois, Tom Savage, Elaine Viets, Marcia Talley, Rhys Bowen, and other popular authors.

In a classic Bernie Rhodenbarr thriller, the burglar-turned-bookseller plots to steal the lost manuscript of a Kipling poem, but an unexpected twist leaves the police hot on his trail. Read by Lawrence Block. Simultaneous.

Bernie Rhodenbarr is back in action in Lawrence Block's fifth classic "burglar" book. This irresistible character canvases an apartment for a stolen painting by Mondrian, but as always, it is a simple task that goes awry. Abridged.

Bernie Rhodenbarr's capers continue with this adventure for the Greenwich Village bookseller who can't resist a little breaking and entering now and then. When Bernie breaks-in to Hank and Wanda Colcannon's apartment, he finds the place ransacked--but is still able to find a rare coin for himself. Unfortunately for Bernie, when the Colcannon's return from their trip, they surprise an intruder, who kills Wanda. The turn of events leave Bernie holding the coin--the main piece of evidence the police are hunting.

In another installment in the popular mystery series featuring detective Bernie Rhodenbarr, Rhodenbarr meets the woman of his dreams at a Humphrey Bogart film festival, a woman whose past may be as dark as a movie theater. Reprint.

The classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery finds the reformed burglar returning to crime when his landlord raises the rent and he becomes entangled in a frame-up involving baseball cards, a lot of cash, and murder. Reprint.

Hired by his self-serving dentist to steal back some valuable diamonds from his ex-wife, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr is nearly discovered and hides in the closet, only to become a witness to the woman's murder. Reprint.

For Bernie Rhodenbarr, bookseller and compulsive burglar, a weekend at a country bed & breakfast inn takes an unexpected twist when a valuable book is stolen and a dead body turns up in the library. Read by Lawrence Block. Simultaneous.

Burglar sleuth Bernie Rhodenbarr attempts to retrieve the lost letters of famed reclusive author Gulliver Fairborn, but instead discovers a dead literary agent and a beautiful woman. Reprint.

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns with one of his most inspired and popular characters: the extraordinary Bernie Rhodenbarr.

Sophisticated yet down-to-earth, philosophical yet practical, Bernie is a gentleman who knows and loves his territory, the gloriously diverse and electric streets of Manhattan. He is minding his own business when he's asked for a favor -- a neat, uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit -- an offer the intrepid thief can't refuse.

But with a few days to go before the crime, Bernie gets restless. So what does a burglar do to change his mood? Go on the prowl, of course. This bit of prowling lands Bernie in a pile of trouble that includes four murders and the burglary of his own home. Caught in the center of a deadly mystery, Bernie must use his wits and wiles to connect the dots and add up the coincidences. Because if he doesn't catch a killer, he'll lose not only his freedom but his life.

Acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Lawrence Block returns with the extraordinary Bernie Rhodenbarr. Antiquarian bookseller by day, burglar by night, Bernie has an innate knack, a gift, for getting into places designed to keep him out.

Bernie is a gentleman who knows and loves his territory, the gloriously diverse streets of Manhattan; a connoisseur who surrounds himself with the finer things in life, including his tailless Manx tabby, Raffles, and good friends like his neighbor, Carolyn. In fact, it's a friend that gets him in his latest jam. Bernie is asked for a favor, a neat, uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit, an offer the intrepid thief can't refuse.

A few days before the crime, Bernie gets restless. What does a burglar do to change his mood? Go on the prowl. This bit of prowling lands Bernie in a pile of trouble that includes four murders and the burglary of his own home. Caught in the center of a deadly mystery, he must use his wits and wiles to connect the dots and add up the coincidences. Because if Bernie doesn't catch a killer, he'll lose not only his freedom but his life.

Infused with the rich atmosphere of New York City and filled with a smart, charming cast of characters headed by the stylish Bernie, The Burglar on the Prowl is an engaging and delightfully suspenseful tale sure to be savored by Block fans old and new.

Burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr prefers to work alone--the risks are lower and the company is better. Offered $5,000 for a simple job, Bernie breaks into an apartment but discovers that the box he came for is missing and there is a dead body on the floor. Accused of murder, Bernie holes up in a friend's apartment where, with the help of a very lovely neighbor, he tries to figure out who set him up--and why.

After Louisville Times reporter Ted Lindsay loses his wife--first to another man, then to a car accident--he relocates to New York, where he meets Cinderella Jones, who is on the run from a gang that she stole fifty thousand dollars from.

An American flier is sent into Hitler's Germany to contact sympathetic members of the German High Command--led by Rudolf Hess--to gain their help in preventing a German invasion of England.

New York City private detective Ed London finds himself up to his ears in murder when the mistress of his brother-in-law, Jack Enright, turns up shot to death in their love nest and London helps dump her body in Central Park. Reprint.

This electrifying collection explores the thin and terrifying line between danger and passion, lust and evil, by following an unfaithful husband who plays the ultimate game of seduction, a gorgeous predator who toys with her prey until the very end, and a sadistic beauty who will do anything for attention. Original.

In A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, private investigator Matthew Scudder is on the hunt for the rapist and killer of rich, beautiful Amanda Thurman. But when a snuff film involving a young homeless boy is discovered, the case becomes terrifyingly twisted. Somehow Scudder and his girlfriend Elaine must find the connection between the the two crimes and set a trap for the killer. From the Edgar Award-winning author of A Ticket to the Boneyard.

A quiet honeymoon at a peaceful little cabin in the isolated Pennsylvania woods in transformed into a terrifying ordeal of hatred and revenge for Dave and Jill Wade.

All the tories contained in Death Cruise are set aboard cruise ships. Written of the International Association of Crime Writers, a global fraternity of mystery writers, these compelling stories come from many nations, including Belgium, Denmark, Cuba, Brazil, England, Germany, Spain, France, and of course, the United States.

Unlicensed private detective Matthew Scudder ventures into the dark and dangerous alleys of Hell's Kitchen to track down the killer of yuppie lawyer Glenn Holtzmann. Reissue.

Tired of being a good girl, Anita Carbone gets more than she bargained for when she, arriving in Greenwich Village, meets a troubled young war veteran and his drug-dealing roommate, who has a penchant for murder. Original.

Matthew Scudder looks into the murder of a prostitute who was just about to go on the straight and narrow. Was it a john? Her pimp? Scudder's investigation puts his own life on the line as he tries to exact justice for a brave woman who dreamed of a better life.

Enough Rope, a collection of superb stories, establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of contemporary Grand Master Lawrence Block.

Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and the disarming duo of Chip Harrison and Leo Haig. Here, too, are Keller, the wistful hit man, and the natty attorney Martin Ehrengraf. Keeping them company are dozens of other refugees from Block's dazzling imagination, all caught up in more ingenious plots than you can shake a blunt instrument at.

Half a dozen of Block's stories have been short-listed for the Edgar Award, and three have won it outright. All the tales in Block's three previous collections are here, along with two dozen new stories. Some will keep you on the edge of the chair. Others will make you roll on the floor laughing. Enough Rope is an essential volume for Lawrence Block fans, and a dazzling introduction for others to the wonderful world of Block magic!

A vigilante serial killer, named "the Will of the People", is prowling New York, ruthlessly executing evil-doers whom he feels deserve to die. His m.o. is to alert the media before he strikes. So far, his victims have included a child molester, a Mafia don, a violent anti-abortionist, and a racial hate monger. But when "Will" targets a noted lawyer, Matthew Scudder is called upon to stop a frighteningly efficient killer who can do the seemingly impossible.

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.

Then all hell breaks loose.

Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question. It's a world where nothing is certain and nobody's safe, a random universe where no one's survival can be taken for granted. Not even his own.

A world where everybody dies.

A collection of the first short stories by some of the best-loved detective fiction writers, including Sue Grafton and Lawrence Block, feature the debuts of such famous sleuths as Kinsey Milhone, "Nameless," Alo Nudger, and John Cuddy.

When a young woman dies mysteriously of an overdose of heroin, Leo Haig and his seventeen-year-old assistant detective investigate the killing.

The best-selling author of Hope to Die and The Burglar in the Rye presents an entertaining rogue's gallery of fifty of America's most notorious criminals, from colonial times through the twentieth century, with profiles of such outlaws as John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie Parker, Dutch Schultz, Ed Gein, and Ted Bundy.

Johnny Hayden and his partner had the perfect scam - offer a guy a fraction of what he paid for a piece of worthless Canadian land and make it seem like it's only part of a much bigger parcel being assembled. Then get the mark so curious as to why it's suddenly valuable that he'll pay a fortune to own the whole thing. Tricky, but it had to work...

Evelyn Stone, the secretary to real-estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman and his spurned lover, teams up with Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance to make their scheme to take Gunderman for all he is worth suceed. Reprint.

Cold-blooded crime and challenging plot twists make this collection a chilling audiobook experience! Includes "Ride the Lightning" by John Lutz and read by Susan Anspach; "The Blue Cross" by G.K. Chesterton and read by David Warner; "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" written and read by Harlan Ellison; "The New Girlfriend" by Ruth Rendell and read by Stephanie Beacham; "By the Dawn's Early Light" by Lawrence Block and read by Robert Forster; "Prisoners" by Ed Gorman and read by Richard Cox; and several others. Unabridged. Available now.

In this early work by critically acclaimed mystery writer Lawrence Block, Joe Marlin, a con man, rogue, and confirmed bachelor, meets his match in Mona Brassard, who just may be more slippery then he is. Originally published in 1961 with the title MONA, this version of the book restores the author's preferred title.

When Phaedra Harrow is kidnapped by slave traders and taken to Afghanistan, Evan Tanner comes to the rescue.

Keller is a regular guy, a solid citizen. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. He goes to the movies, watches the tube, browses the art galleries, and works diligently on his stamp collection. But every now and then a call from the breezily efficient Dot sends him off to kill a total stranger. He takes a plane, rents a car, finds a hotel room, and gets back before the body is cold.

He's a real pro, cool and dispassionate and very good at what he does. Until one day when Dot breaks her own rule and books him for a hit in New York, his home base. She sends him to an art gallery opening, and the girl he gets lucky with steers him to an astrologer. He's a Gemini, his moon's in Taurus . . . and he's got a murderer's thumb.

Then the jobs start to go wrong. Targets die before he can draw a bead on them. The realization is slow in coming, but there's no getting around it: Somebody out there is trying to hit the hit man. Keller, God help him, has found his way on to somebody else's hit list.

Darker than Keller's conscience, and as riveting, surprising, and wickedly funny as his sensational New York Times bestselling debut, Hit Man, Lawrence Block's Hit List only serves to confirm the Wall Street Journal's estimation of the multiple-award-winning author as "one of the very best writers now working the beat."?

Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn't work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.

Introspective professional assassin John Keller, the anti-hero of "Hit Man" and "Hit List," continues to ponder his life, the ethics of his lethal career, and his possible retirement as he returns in an all-new mystery adventure. Reprint.

When Stanley Lambchop awakes one morning, his brother, Arthur, is yelling. A bulletin board has fallen on Stanley during the night, now he is only half an inch thick!

So begins a series of very funny, very unusual adventures.

This audio collection includes, Flat Stanley, Stanley, Flat Again, Invisible Stanley, and Stanley in Space.

Framed for a high-profile murder that he did not commit, contract hit man John Keller flees for his life and becomes increasingly suspicious about his handler's ominous unresponsiveness. 100,000 first printing. Reprint.

Framed for a high-profile murder that he did not commit, contract hit man John Keller flees for his life and becomes increasingly suspicious about his handler's ominous unresponsiveness. By the author of Hit Parade. (Suspense)

Framed for a high-profile murder that he did not commit, contract hit man John Keller flees for his life and becomes increasingly suspicious about his handler's ominous unresponsiveness. By the author of Hit Parade. 100,000 first printing.

The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life.

There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices, then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started ...

Nobody ever called Jerry Broadfield a saint, but he was an (almost) honest cop. Then one day he took off his badge and ratted on nearly every crooked cop on the NYPD. He was a hero--until someone set him up. Now Matt Scudder is on the case and has no idea how dirty it will get.

Immediately filled with joy and hope when her suicide attempt fails, Madeleine throws down the revolver that, moments ago, was pointed at her head but the gun fires and kills another woman, who dies in Madeleine's arms.

Chip Harrison has amorous adventures as he tries to lose his virginity and is hired to be a deputy sheriff in a Southern bordello.

Five killers, each with their own reasons for accepting what might as well be a suicide mission for $20,000 apiece, must find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. Reprint.

Here's a scintillating collection of mystery short stories by one of the genre's acknowledged masters. The compilation features such Block trademark characters as Matthew Scudder and dapper defense attorney Martin Ehrengraf.

Award-winning mystery writer Lawrence Block edits Akashic Books' MANHATTAN NOIR, a collection of new short crime fiction inspired by the seedy underbelly of the island at the center of the modern world.

Singer, songwriter, folk revivalist, and masterly guitarist Dave Van Ronk's autobiography, THE MAYOR OF MACDOUGAL STREET, is a vivid letter from 1950s and early-'60s Greenwich Village. Here, in 1959, just before the young Bob Dylan's arrival on the scene (as described in Dylan's CHRONICLES), an apartment rents for $90 a month, and the cafes and clubs are alive with jazz, folk music, and political intrigue. But Van Ronk is no nostalgia freak: in his Village it's hard to earn enough to keep body and soul together. Beat poetry is on the rise, and folk musicians are often only employed to drive away overstaying audiences, which often consist of curious tourists there solely to see the beatniks. With no commercial ax to grind or legend to burnish, the perennially discovered Van Ronk is an impressive cultural historian. MACDOUGAL STREET would be a riveting memoir even if it didn't contain priceless nuggets on the formative years of music legends of the '50s and '60s like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. Van Ronk's recollections of the lesser-known but no less vital characters on the scene, as well as his decoding of the complexities of early-'60s Village musical, social, and political life, make it essential.

Chronicles the humorous and unbelievable exploits and adventures of spy Evan Tanner as he searches the jungles of Modonoland for missing treasure, while coping with the CIA, white supremacists, revolutionaries, and a gorgeous jungle bombshell named Sheena. Reprint.

Joe Martin was a con man - fly-by-night living, bounced checks at plush hotels, a string of aliases. He'd prowl on rich ladies with their eyes shut and their pocketbooks open. That was his life until he met Mona and fell for her like a ton of bricks. She gave him a dream of a rose-covered cottage and straight-arrow living - and a nightmare involving the biggest con of them all...murder!

A dozen of the leading authors of mystery and suspense introduce an entertaining anthology of all-original mystery stories that focus on the hidden secrets and motivations that can bring out the murderous impulses of various members of the family, in works by Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Peter Straub, Whitley Strieber, and other notable authors.

In Chip Harrison's first adventure, he may not be able to make it with the ladies, but close encounters with murder and mystery are no problem at all.

A collection of twenty-four short tales and three novellas by the best-selling author of Hit and Run includes pieces that were originally published in digest-sized magazines and short works featuring private detective Ed London. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Matt Scudder returns in a tense mystery in which he remorselessly tracks downa young midwestern girl missing in the Big Apple.

Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, and Donald Westlake describe how they would commit the perfect murder.

Keeping pace with the increased influence of PAT in the pharmaceutical industry, this completely updated reference spans the latest research and regulations, technologies, and expert solutions for every significant aspect of pharmaceutical process scale-up-clearly introducing readers to the theoretical concept of dimensional analysis to quantify similar processes on varying scales.

A seemingly ordinary shopkeeper who moonlights as a spy becomes embroiled in an anarchist's plot to destroy the Greenwich Observatory, in a suspenseful tale, originally published as The Secret Agent, that became the inspiration for the classic Hitchcock film, featuring Sylvia Sydney and John Loder, which accompanies the volume on a DVD.

While searching for a missing chanteuse, who has metamorphosed into an international jewel thief, in Thailand, Evan Tanner finds himself captured by a band of guerillas, rescued by a Thai youth, and on the run from bandits and soldiers, which leads him into the middle of a war. Reprint.

Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy Louden is hatching plans of his own with a gang including a disfigured hooker, a talentless artist, and a clueless retiree. But when his simple robbery results in ruthless and indiscriminate bloodshed, Hoke quickly remembers why he is a cop and hurls himself back into the world he meant to leave behind forever.

A masterly tale of both mid-life crisis and murder, Sideswipe is a page-turning thriller packed with laughs, loaded with suspense, and featuring one of the truly original detectives of all time.

The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again-and that's where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignment carries the unmistakable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring ex-cop-turned-investigator Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents most secret, unspeakable sins.

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well.

That was the thing about New York -- if you loved it, if it worked for you, it ruined you for anyplace else in the world.

In this dazzlingly constructed novel, Lawrence Block reveals the secret at the heart of the Big Apple. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. Pulsating with the lives of its denizens -- bartenders and hookers, power brokers and politicos, cops and secretaries, editors and dreamers -- the city inspires a passion that is universal yet unique in each of its eight million inhabitants, including:

John Blair Creighton, a writer on the verge of a breakthrough;

Francis Buckram, a charismatic ex-police commissioner -- and the inside choice for the next mayor -- on the verge of a breakdown;

Susan Pomerance, a beautiful, sophisticated folk-art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality;

Maury Winters, a defense attorney who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness;

Jerry Pankow, an ex-addict who has turned being clean into a living, mopping up after New York's nightlife;

And, in the shadows of a city reeling from tragedy, an unlikely killing machine who wages a one-man war against them all.

Infused with the raw cadence, stark beauty, and relentless pace of New York City, Small Town is a tour de force Block fans old and new will celebrate.

The Edgar Award-winning author of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse now publishes a collection of stories that can be compared to the works of Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. Some stories feature New York P.I. Matt Scudder, and others star attorney Martin Ehrengraf, but all resound with Block's dark humor and razor-sharp sense of characterization.

Lawrence Block hits the bulls-eye again with this collection of bittersweet mysteries.

An anthology of mystery and crime stories dealing with the power of lust raised to sinful proportions by authors such as James W. Hall, Simon Brett, Joyce Carol Oates, and Clive Barker.

In his characteristically elegant style, Block offers expert writing advice and shares the experiences and attitudes of a fiction writer, in this companion guide to the popular Telling Lies for Fun & Profit. Destined to become another classic in Block's repertoire, Spider, Spin Me a Web takes a master's look at the techniques and strategies of the writer's craft.

Nine years after eight women were killed with an icepick, the killer strikes again. Scudder was one of the original detectives investigating the case, and the father of Barbara Ettinger, the sixth victim, asks Scudder, now a private detective, to investigate from his new perspective.

In this memoir, popular mystery writer Lawrence Block reveals his passion for the neglected sport of racewalking. Block documents the many races he has participated in around the world and lets his thoughts meander philosophically across a myriad of insights about life that have come to him as he practiced his accelerated rambles.

The best-selling author of such works as Hit and Run and Hit Parade shares his experiences as an avid if relatively non-athletic race walker and world traveler, describing how his efforts in races throughout the world have been tempered by his encroaching age and other personal challenges.

Paul Kavanagh, an ex-Green Beret, and trained killer George Dattner are hired to steal a two-million-dollar shipment of tactical nuclear weapons from the U.S. Army.

Globe-trotting adventurer Evan Tanner takes on a new covert mission to stop Burma's drug trade and topple its corrupt government, an assignment that matches him with an exiled Russian beauty. Reprint

Spy Evan Tanner is in over his head when he agrees to help a lovesick friend find his lost love and smuggle her out of Russia, as he encounters a motley crew of disaffected Eastern Europeans who dream about emigrating, and see Tanner as their ticket out. Read by Nick Sullivan.

Spy Evan Tanner is in over his head when he agrees to help a lovesick friend find a lost love and encounters a motley crew of disaffected Eastern Europeans who dream about emigrating, and see Tanner as their ticket out.

From the award-winning author of A Walk Among the Tombstones, proven, practical advice on handling the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing game. Block's witty sourcebook is a must read for anyone serious about writing or about understanding how the process works.

Three never before published novellas from some of our very best crime writers, compiled and edited by Ed McBain.

Keller's Adjustment by Lawrence Block
Keller, everyone's favorite hit man, is back, dealing out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip across America.

The Ransome Women by John Farris
A young and beautiful artist is flattered when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome, offers her a modeling contract. Flattery turns to terror when she discovers the fate shared by Ransome's past subjects.

The Things They Left Behind by Stephen King
In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers when he begins finding the things they left behind.

Evan Tanner, war veteran, permanent insomniac, and pursuer of beautiful women, appears in a new edition of his very first adventure, the case of a ravishing blonde who asks him to smuggle her into her native country. Reprint.

Matthew Scudder, ex-cop and recovering alcoholic, has finally gtten his life together. Suddenly, trouble arrives in the form of and old enemy, psychotic James Leo Motley, who is brutally murdering anyone close to Scudder--with Scudder's name on the list!

Small-time stoolie, Jake 'The Spinner' Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more 'clients, ' he figured, the more money--and more people eager to see him dead. So no one is surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in. And what's worse, no one cares--except Matthew Scudder. The ex-cop-turned- private-eye is no avenging angel. But he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job after all and Scudder's been paid to find a killer--by the victim... in advance.

Secret agent Evan Tanner journeys to the jungles of Thailand in a desperate attempt to rescue a lovely jazz singer from the vicious guerrilla band that kidnapped her.

Block's last Scudder mystery, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, was called "smoothly paced, deftly plotted, outstanding" by the Chicago Tribune. Now Block is poised to break through with his hottest, freshest look at the Big Apple's dark side. A heroin wholesaler haggles with kidnappers over his wife's ransom, and she comes back in pieces. But Scudder is on the killers' trail in no time.

Now back in print, the acclaimed Matt Scudder novel in which the hard-nosed detective turns his life around. Forced to leave the N.Y.P.D., Matt Scudder survives the only way he knows how--drink by drink, until his barroom cronies lure him into some nasty business that includes blackmail, double cross and murder.

Block, recently named Grand Master of Mystery Writing, covers every step of the novel writing and selling process to help writers deliver a salable manuscript to the right editor's desk.

Offers aspiring novelists guidelines for developing plot ideas, characters, and the story line as well as rewriting the manuscript, finding a literary agent, and getting works published.

While investigating a seemingly routine missing persons case, private investigator Roy Markham suddenly finds himself plunged into a deadly world of pornography, blackmail, and murder where he must fight for his own survival. Reprint.

Ex-cop Matt Scudder is hired to prove that a wealthy socialite arranged for the murder of his pregnant wife--a job that will take him deep into the bowels of New York's porn underground.