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Lawrence Block

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Lawrence Block has been writing crime, mystery and suspense fiction for more than half a century. He has published in excess of 100 books and no end of short stories. He apprenticed under various pseudonyms in the late 1950s; the first time his name appeared in print was for his short story, “You Can’t Lose,” in Manhunt (Feb. 1958), and the first book published under his own name was Mona (1961), reprinted by Hard Case Crime under the author’s original title, Grifter’s Game (2005). Block is best known for his series characters, including cop-turned-PI Matthew Scudder, gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, globe-trotting insomniac Evan Tanner, and introspective assassin Keller. Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America, and a past president of MWA and the Private Eye Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times each, and the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe and Philip Marlowe awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and the Diamond Dagger for Life Achievement from the Crime Writers Association (UK). He’s also been honored with the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award from Mystery Ink magazine and the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in the short story. In France, he has been proclaimed a Grand Maître du Roman Noir and has twice been awarded the Société 813 trophy. He has been a guest of honor at Bouchercon and at book fairs and mystery festivals in France, Germany, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and Taiwan. As if that were not enough, he was also presented with the key to the city of Muncie, Indiana. (But as soon as he left, they changed the locks.) www.lawrenceblock.com.

Lawrence Block Books

Kellers Fedora book cover

Kellers Fedora

Lawrence Block
Into the Night book cover

Into the Night

Cornell Woolrich
Quando la Sacre Taverna Chiude book cover

Quando la Sacre Taverna Chiude

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Kellers neuer Job book cover

Kellers neuer Job

Lawrence Block
Borderline book cover

Borderline

Lawrence Block
Der Einbrecher, der wie Mondrian malte book cover

Der Einbrecher, der wie Mondrian malte

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Der Einbrecher, der Spinoza studierte book cover

Der Einbrecher, der Spinoza studierte

Lawrence Block
The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder book cover

The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

Lawrence Block
L'Autobiografia di Matthew Scudder book cover

L'Autobiografia di Matthew Scudder

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Die Autobiographie von Matthew Scudder book cover

Die Autobiographie von Matthew Scudder

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The Naked and the Deadly book cover

The Naked and the Deadly

Lawrence Block
Der Einbrecher, der Fredric Brown begegnete book cover

Der Einbrecher, der Fredric Brown begegnete

Lawrence Block
Playing Games book cover

Playing Games

Lawrence Block
Sinner Man book cover

Sinner Man

Lawrence Block
Una Pugnalata nel Buio book cover

Una Pugnalata nel Buio

Lawrence Block
Der Einbrecher, der gerne Kipling zitierte book cover

Der Einbrecher, der gerne Kipling zitierte

Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown book cover

The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown

Lawrence Block
Il Ladro che Leggeva Fredric Brown book cover

Il Ladro che Leggeva Fredric Brown

Lawrence Block
Jewish Noir II book cover

Jewish Noir II

Kenneth Wishnia
Nel Vortice della Morte book cover

Nel Vortice della Morte

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