Bücher von Lawrence Block

In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller--and years before his first Edgar Award--a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history.One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Master--an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad.

Keller is friendly. Industrious. A bit lonely, sometimes. If it wasn't for the fact that he kills people for a living, he'd be just your average Joe. The inconvenient wife, the troublesome sports star, the greedy business partner, the vicious dog, he'll take care of them all, quietly and efficiently. If the price is right.Like the rest of us, Keller's starting to worry about his retirement. After all, he's not getting any younger. (His victims, on the other hand, aren't getting any older.) So he contacts his "e;booking agent,"e; Dot, up in White Plains, and tells her to keep the hits coming. He'll take any job, anywhere. His nest egg needs fattening up.Of course, being less choosy means taking greater risksand that could buy Keller some big trouble. Then again, in this game, there are plenty of opportunities for some inventive improvisation . . . and a determined self-motivator can make a killing.

There is no accolade or major mystery award that has not already been bestowed upon Lawrence Block. His acclaimed crime novels are asintelligent, provocative, and emotionally complex as they are nerve-tighteningly intense. And perhaps the most respected of his myriad works are the Matthew Scudder books -- masterworks of suspenseful invention featuring a remarkable protagonist rich in conscience and character, with all the flaws that his humanity entails. This is the detective novel as high art.A Dance At The SlaughterhouseIn Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths. Because this investigation is leading Scudder on a frightening grand tour of New York's sex-for-sale underworld -- where an innocent young life is simply a commodity to be bought and perverted ... and then destroyed.

In this city, there is little sense and no rules. Those who fly the highest often come crashing down the hardest -- like successful young Glenn Holtzmann, randomly blown away by a deranged derelict at a corner phone booth on Eleventh Avenue. Unlicensed p.i. Matt Scudder thinks Holtzmann was simply in the wrong place at the worst time. Others think differently -- like Thomas Sadecki, brother of the crazed Vietnam vet accused of the murder, who wants Scudder to prove the madman innocent. But no one is truly innocent in this unmerciful metropolis --including Matther Scudder, whose curiosity and dedication are leading him to dark, unexplored places in his own heart...and to passions and revelations that could destroy everything he loves.

The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Bloock's expert advice, you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze of facinating fiction.Spider, Spin Me a Web is the perfect companion volume to Block's previous book on writing, Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, which Sue Grafton noted "should be a permanent part of every writer's library." As helpful and supportive as always, Block shares what he's learned over the course of writing over one hundred published books: techniques to help you to write a solid piece of fiction; strategies for getting a reader (or editor) to reaad—and buy—your book; ideas for increasing your creativity and developing an environment that will nourish you and your craft. Spider, Spin Me a Web is a complete guide to achieving your full potential as awriter.

Jedes Bild erzählt eine Geschichte: Siebzehn Stories prominenter Autoren zu berühmten Werken der Kunstgeschichte"Nighthawks", herausgegeben von US-Krimi-Altmeister Lawrence Block, mit seinen Stories nach Gemälden von Edward Hopper war ein großer Erfolg und erhielt exzellente Kritiken. In diesem Fortsetzungsband weitet sich das Panorama: Die Geschichten gelten nicht nur einem berühmten Künstler und seinen Gemälden. Vielmehr wurde jeder der siebzehn prominenten Autoren, unter ihnen Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver und Joyce Carol Oates, gebeten, eine Story zu einem Gemälde oder einem Kunstwerk seiner Wahl zu schreiben. Herausgekommen ist wiederum eine Sammlung inspirierender Geschichten, in denen sich der Bogen von den Höhlenmalereien von Lascaux über Michelangelo, Hieronymus Bosch und Auguste Renoir bis hin zu René Magritte und Salvador Dalí spannt.Ein faszinierendes Kaleidoskop der künstlerischen Phantasie!Das perfekte Geschenk für alle Literatur- und KunstinteressiertenWelche Kunstwerke die Autoren der Anthologie inspiriert haben, sehen Sie hier auf einen Blick:. Jill D. Block: »Sicherheitsregeln« von Art Frahm. Lee Child: »Vase mit Chrysanthemen« von Auguste Renoir. Nicholas Christopher: »Das Mädchen mit dem Fächer« von Paul Gauguin. Michael Connelly: »Der Garten der Lüste« von Hieronymus Bosch. Jeffery Deaver: »Die Höhlenmalereien von Lascaux«. Joe R. Lansdale: »Der Haarschnitt« von Norman Rockwell. Gail Levin: »Rote Cannas« von Georgia O`Keeffe. Warren Moore: »Der Apotheker von Ampurdan auf der Suche nach absolut nichts« von Salvador Dalí. David Morrell: »Zypressen« von Vincent van Gogh. Joyce Carol Oates: »Die schönen Tage« von Balthus. Thomas Pluck: »Die Wahrheit entsteigt dem Brunnen« von Jean-Léon Gérôme. S. J. Rozan: »Die große Welle vor Kanagawa« von Katsushika Hokusai. Kristine Kathryn Rusch: »Der Denker« von Auguste Rodin. Jonathan Santlofer: »Das Reich der Lichter« von René Magritte. Justin Scott: »PH-129« von Clyfford Still. Sarah Weinman: »Akt im Atelier« von Lilias Torrance Newton. Lawrence Block: »David« von Michelangelo Buonarroti

AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began publishing titles from my backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords, essays and articles. Now I've updated and expended it.