Lawrence Block Books In Order
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Burglars Can't Be Choosers | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar in the Closet | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Like a Thief in the Night | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Takes a Cat | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar in the Library | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar in the Rye | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar on the Prowl | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Bad Night for Burglars | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar in Short Order | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Chip Harrison Books
No Score | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chip Harrison Scores Again | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Make Out with Murder | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Topless Tulip Caper | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
As Dark as Christmas Gets | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death of the Mallory Queen | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chronological Order of Chip Harrison Books
No Score | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chip Harrison Scores Again | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Make Out with Murder | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Topless Tulip Caper | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death of the Mallory Queen | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
As Dark as Christmas Gets | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Evan Tanner Books
The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Canceled Czech | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tanner's Twelve Swingers | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tanner's Tiger | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Me Tanner, You Jane | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tanner on Ice | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Jill Emerson Books
A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Getting Off | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Trouble with Eden | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadows | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Enough of Sorrow | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Threesome | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Warm and Willing | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thirty | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of John Keller Books
Hit Man | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hit List | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hit Parade | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hit and Run | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller in Dallas | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hit Me | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller's Adjustment | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller on the Spot | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller's Therapy | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller's Horoscope | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller's Fedora | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller's Homecoming | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller's Designated Hitter | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller the Dogkiller | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller in Des Moines | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Quotidian Keller | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keller on Horseback | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Kit Tolliver Books
If You Can't Stand the Heat | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rude Awakening | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Can Call Me Lucky | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Clean Slate | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Waitress Wanted | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jilling | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Conjugal Rites | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One Kind Favor I Ask of You | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Don't Get in the Car | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fun with Brady and Angelica | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Zeroing In | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Unfinished Business | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Lou Largo Books
Babe in the Woods | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Manhattan Noir Books
Manhattan Noir | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Matthew Scudder Books
The Sins of the Fathers | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Time to Murder and Create | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Midst of Death | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Stab in the Dark | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eight Million Ways to Die | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Out on the Cutting Edge | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Ticket to the Boneyard | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Walk Among the Tombstones | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Devil Knows You're Dead | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Long Line of Dead Men | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Even the Wicked | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Out the Window | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Everybody Dies | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hope to Die | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Moment of Wrong Thinking | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
All the Flowers are Dying | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Drop of the Hard Stuff | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Let's Get Lost | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Candle for the Bag Lady | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Time to Scatter Stones | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Murderous Christmas Stories Books
Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Murder on Christmas Eve | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
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Publication Order of Paul Kavanagh Books
Such Men are Dangerous | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Triumph of Evil | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Not Comin' Home to You | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Seven Deadly Sins Books
Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Speaking of Wrath | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Collecting Ackermans | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
By the Dawn's Early Light | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Merciful Angel of Death | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Chance to Get Even | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dolly's Trash & Treasures | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Welcome to the Real World | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Who Knows Where It Goes | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Scenarios | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Headaches and Bad Dreams | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sweet Little Hands | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Don't Even Feel It | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In For a Penny | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Three in the Side Pocket | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Like a Bone in the Throat | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nothing Short of Highway Robbery | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ehrengraf Fandango | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I Know How to Pick 'Em | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Autumn at the Automat | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Resume Speed | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Like a Lamb to Slaughter | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sometimes They Bite | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Some Days You Get the Bear | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Collected Mystery Stories | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Enough Rope | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Crazy Years | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Catch and Release | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Resume Speed and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
From Sea to Stormy Sea | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Playing Games | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Plays
How Far | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Wife-Swap Report | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
3 is Not a Crowd | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sex and the Stewardess | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sex Therapists | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Different Strokes | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Total Sexuality | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Write for Your Life | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Liar's Bible | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Liar's Companion | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Male Hustler | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wide Open | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Come Fly With Us | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beyond Group Sex | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Crime of Our Lives | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections
One Night Stands and Lost Weekends | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Night and the Music | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Eyes Have It | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chapter and Hearse | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Perfect Murder | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Monsters in Our Midst | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The New Mystery | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bad Behavior | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Night Screams | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
First Cases, Volume 1 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Law and Order | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Plot Thickens | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
First Cases, Volume 2 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crimes of Passion | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mystery's Most Wanted | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hot Blood X | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of the Best | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Murder on the Run | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Opening Shots, Vol. II | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Pulp Masters | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mighty Johns | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Murder Most Merry | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Most Wanted | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood on Their Hands | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bronx Noir | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World\\\'s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 4 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
High Stakes | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Shadow of the Master | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Greatest Hits | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lesbian Pulp Fiction | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Brooklyn Noir 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
These Guns for Hire | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sounds Of Crime | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dark End of the Street | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Indian Country Noir | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Masters of Noir, Volume One | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shamus Winners | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Masters of Noir, Volume Three | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Warriors 3 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Pursuit of Spenser | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Psychos | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
USA Noir | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Inherit the Dead | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dangerous Women | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Buffalo Noir | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC) | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mostly Murder | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Sunlight or In Shadow | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gym Rat & Murder Club | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Florida Happens | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At Home in the Dark | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Darkling Halls of Ivy | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collectibles | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hailing from Buffalo, N.Y. Lawrence Block would attend and fail to graduate from Yellow Spring’s Antioch college, having come to agree with the school authorities that he would be happier elsewhere. His first foray into the literary world found Lawrence pseudonymously testing the waters of porn, along with fellow apprentice Donald E. Westlake, the pair purposing in midcentury erotica sometime in the 1950s.
The name Lawrence Block wouldn’t appear in print until 1958, following the publication of Block’s short story ??You Can’t Lose’. Eventually gaining momentum with ??Mona,’ published in 1961 under his name, reissued repeatedly over the years, once even titled ??Sweet Slow death’, Lawrence’s current repertoire of novels, exceeding the 50 book mark, is only surpassed by the more than 100 short stories he has availed to his myriads of fans during decades of hard work.
Married to Lynne Block with whom he has spent most of his life travelling, and through whom he has born two children, Amy Reichel and Jill Block, as well as Alison Pouliot from a previous marriage, it is probably because of his long term residency in New York that so many of Lawrence Block’s fictional stories have been set within the streets of the city.
Best known for a select few highly entertaining and diverse characters, from Evan Tanner to Mathew Scudder, Lawrence has brought his literary skills to the world under many a name, some of his better known pseudonyms including Lesley Evans, Jill Emerson, Anne Campbell Clark and John Warren Wells.
Making appearances in a variety of magazines, from The New York Times to Cosmopolitan, RedBook, GQ and even PlayBoy, Lawrence Block has endeavored to encourage the writing field through a myriad of arenas, not only availing a series of books specifically aimed towards writers but also running an instructional column in Writer’s Digest for more than a decade, his literary accomplishments expanding into television and even film.
+Awards
Lawrence block has enjoyed the title of Grand master of Mystery Writers of America for two decades, also acquiring the position of president for Private Eye writers of America and MWA. Winning the Edgar and Shamus prize four times, a Lifetime Achievement award from Private Eye Writers of America, and the Japanese Maltese Falcon award, Lawrence has also had the privilege of accepting the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement prize from Mystery Ink, a magazine; the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement from the Crime Writers Association and the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derriger Lifetime Achievement prize for short stories.
The French have also imputed to Lawrence Block the title of Grand Maitre du Roman Noir. Appearing as the guest of honor at book festivals in various nations from Taiwan to Australia, Spain and even New Zealand, Lawrence Block can boast of more awards and prizes earned in his half decade old career than those of several dozen well known writers put together, a giant in the writing arena and commanding respect in the many nations of the world. And even with this level of elevation, those closest to the author have been known to describe his personality as warm, kind, modest and quite humble.
+ Lawrence’s success, the popularity of his books have almost always relied upon the characters he creates, crafted to not only drive their various stories but to engage and entertain the readers, usually achieving victory in these arenas and positively impact their various stories
Though even considering the buzz surrounding the likes of John Paul Keller, Chris Harrison and Evan Michael Tanner, two names stand apart within Lawrence’s web of stories, namely:
-Mathew Scudder- introduced in 1976’s ??The sins of the Fathers’, Mathew’s alcoholic ex cop, now unlicensed private investigator is Lawrence Block’s most famous character. Fighting alcoholism and the various demons of his past, the intrigue behind his character driven by his ever evolving situations, each book thrusting the PI into one diverse situation after another, each novel taking great steps to stand apart from Mathew’s previous outing.
Lawrence Block has, on occasion, vaguely admitted to the fact that facets of Mathew’s characters, especially the alcoholism, might just mirror his own life and past mistakes.
-Bernie Rhodenbarr
Only second to Mathew in fame, Lawrence’s gentleman burglar couldn’t be further from Mathew Scudder, not only ageless in his various outings but usually partaking in a far lighter story, his world somewhat wittier and more sophisticated that Mathew’s dingy existence.
Even while maintaining a static existence, Bernie has managed to endear himself to many a Lawrence Block fan, his charm and wit allowing novels like ‘The Burglar who counted the spoons’ to entertain purely through the energizing factor that is Bernie Rhodenbarr.
+Important as Mathew Scudder and Bernie might be, it would be inaccurate to impute the author’s success solely to the existence of these characters, with each Lawrence Block novel striving to stand alone as a masterpiece in its own right.
One need only scrutinize the first book in Lawrence’s profile, that title that introduced him to the world. The Sins of the Fathers introduced Mathew Scudder as an alcoholic PI, dragged into a world of perversion and corruption following a plea from a client to solve the murder of a young hooker.
The prime suspect having met a fatal end, it comes down to Scudder to maneuver through a web of lies and secrecy to reveal to the populace of Greenwich the sins hidden beneath a peaceful veneer.
Even while bringing the enigmatic Mathew Scudder to life, The Sins of The Fathers proved a hit among the vast portion of readers that first encountered Lawrence Block, not only writing a detective that broke the mold, less hardboiled and more philosophical, but presenting a truly intriguing case interspersed with truly shocking twists and revelations.
So engaging was this first true Lawrence Block detective novel that most readers were astonished by the quality of ??Time to Murder and Create’ a detective story that not only incorporated the best elements of ??The Sins of the Fathers’ but augmented them, this time following Mathew Scudder as he attempted to solve the death of his friend Jake The Spinner, a former informer turned blackmailer, whom too many people would have liked to murder.
Pressured by the advent of a sinister threat emerging from his meddling into Jake’s affairs and a host of wealthy and powerful opponents, ??Time to Murder and create’ utilizes Block’s crisp prose to tell a story that not only avails hard hitting plots but evolves the Scudder character, driving the PI into even more intriguing territory.
With projects like ??8 Million ways to Die’ finally jumping to film in 1986, the Wong Kar-wai directed, Norah Jones acted ??My Blueberry nights’ screenplay he wrote in 2007, and ??A Walk Among the Tombstones’ in the process of being adapted into a movie, to be released in 2014, with Liam Neeson playing the role of Mathew Scudder, Lawrence Block has more than cemented his reputation as a literary genius within the Mystery novel genre.
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