Lawrence Block

1938 -

Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America - 1994

Novels

Characters: Matthew Scudder (MS), Bernie Rhodenbarr (BR), Roy Markham (RM), Chip Harrison (CH), Keller

Block, Lawrence,
--Markham/You Could Call It Murder, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1961. (RM) ISBN: 0-7868-0342-3
--No Score, Signet, New York, 1970. (CH) ISBN: 0-451-18796-2
--Chip Harrison Scores Again, Signet, New York, 1971. (CH) ISBN: 0-451-18797-0
--The Triumph of Evil, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1971. (as Paul Kavanagh) ISBN: 0-7867-0181-1
--The Sins of the Fathers, Dark Harvest, Arlington Heights, Illinois, 1976. ISBN: 0-913165-66-2
--Burglars Can't Be Choosers, Dutton, New York, 1977. (BR) ISBN: 0-525-93943-1
--The Burglar in the Closet, (BR)
--The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, Random House, New York, 1979. (BR) ISBN: 0-394-50417-8 Nero Wolfe
--Ariel, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1980. ISBN: 0-7867-0385-7
--Time to Murder and Create,
--In the Midst of Death,
--A Stab in the Dark, Arbor, New York, 1981.
--Eight Million Ways to Die, 1982. Shamus
--When the Sacred Ginmill Closes,
--Out on the Cutting Edge,
--A Ticket to the Boneyard,
--The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza, (BR)
--The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, (BR)
--A Dance at the Slaughter House, Avon, New York, 1992. (MS) Edgar ISBN: 0-380-71374-8
--A Walk Among the Tombstones,
--The Devil Knows You're Dead, 1993. (MS) Shamus
--A Long Line of Dead Men, Avon, New York, 1994. ISBN: 0-380-72024-8
--The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams, Dutton, New York, 1994. (BR) ISBN: 0-525-93807-9
--Hit Man, Avon Twilight, New York, 1998. ISBN: 0-380-72541-X
--Everybody Dies, 1999.
--Hit List, William Morrow, New York, 2000.

Original Short Fiction

Block, Lawrence,
--Alfred Hitchcock
--The Armchair Detective
--Cosmopolitan
--Ellery Queen
--F & SF
--For Women Only
--Funny Bones
--Gallery
--Guy
--Manhunt
--Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine
--Monsters in Our Midst
--Murder for Revenge
--Murder Is My Business
--New Mystery (magazine)
--The New Mystery (book)
--Night Screams
--Penthouse
--The Perfect Murder
--Playboy
--The Plot Thickens
--Science Fiction Stories

Collections of Short Fiction

Block, Lawrence,
--Sometimes They Bite, Avon, New York, 1983.
--Like a Lamb to Slaughter, New York, 1984.
--Some Days You Get the Bear, William Morrow, New York, 1993. ISBN: 0-688-10820-2
--Hit Man, William Morrow, New York, 1998. ISBN: 0-688-14179-X
--Hit Man, Nova Twilight, New York, 1998. ISBN: 0-380-72541-X

Sources of Biographical and Bibliographical Information

King, Stephen, No Cats: An Appreciation of Lawrence Block and Matt Scudder, in The Sins of the Fathers, by Lawrence Block, Dark Harvest, Arlington Heights, Illinois, 1992. ISBN: 0-913165-66-2

Charyn, Jerome, in The New Mystery, Dutton, New York, 1993. ISBN: 0-525-93516-9

Meyer, Adam, Still Out on the Cutting Edge: An Interview with the Mystery Man: Lawrence Block, in Pirate Writings, #7, Summer, 1995.

Anthologies of Short Fiction Edited

Block, Lawrence,
--Master's Choice, Berkley Prime Crime, New York, 1999. ISBN: 0-425-17803-X

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