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Sometime in 1953, I knew with unusual certainty what I intended to do with my life. I would become a writer. I was then 15 years old, and the next several years were to prove eventful. I went to college, I got a summer job at a literary agency and dropped out of college to keep it, I sold two dozen short stories and articles to national magazines, and I completed a novel. By the time I was 25, I had a wife and two daughters and a house i...

Den tidligere politimand og nyligt fraskilte Matthew Scudder lever en håbløs tilværelse som privatdetektiv i New York City. Møderne hos Anonyme Alkoholikere er efterhånden hans eneste faste holdepunkt i livet. Da han bliver draget ind i sagen om en ung kvindes langvarige forsvinden, hvirvles han hurtigt ind i en underverden præget af vold og farlige forbindelser. Han møder kærlighed og død de mest fortabte steder, og opklaringen af sagen viser...

Da en ung, rig kvinde bliver myrdet på bestialsk vis, hyres privatdetektiven Matt Scudder til at efterforske sagen. I al hemmelighed får han samtidig overdraget en video med brutale pornoscener, hvor en kvinde bliver dræbt mens hun filmes. Efterforskningen og videoen fører Scudder dybt ned i New Yorks underverden og ind i en lyssky sexindustri, hvor uskyldige unge kvinder ødelægges og sælges som varer. De to kvindemord viser sig at være tæt fo...

Here's what someone wrote as the book description for an earlier edition of ENOUGH OF SORROW:"From master storyteller Lawrence Block comes one girl's journey toward self-discovery and sexual freedom....Karen Winslow is starting over. But she's not sure how to move forward when her deepest secret haunts her and keeps her from enjoying her carefree youth. She's a sweet but troubled young thing, and not until she meets Rae, a confident young lesb...

A COLLECTION... OF COLLECTIONS What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: those who've got the collecting bug care passionately-sometimes violently-about the objects of their obsession. No one covets like a collector, and as you will find in the pages of this brand new anthology from MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block, a truly dedicated collector will ign...

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A COLLECTION... OF COLLECTIONS What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: those who've got the collecting bug care passionately-sometimes violently-about the objects of their obsession. No one covets like a collector, and as you will find in the pages of this brand new anthology from MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block, a truly dedicated collector will ign...

In The Night and the Music, Lawrence Block has compiled all of Scudder's shorter cases into one volume.

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Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles about the work, and arranged for its distribution as an ebook. Here's what the publisher had to day about it at the time:"In a career spanning more than fifty years, Lawrence Block has produced more than one hundred books, ranging in genre from ...

Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles about the work, and arranged for its distribution as an ebook. Here's what the publisher had to day about it at the time:"In a career spanning more than fifty years, Lawrence Block has produced more than one hundred books, ranging in genre from ...

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In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers.For several years he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing, and designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper. This book was written to make the seminar available to a larger audience.Block s...

An MWA Grand Master tells it straight:Raymond Chandler: "You have to wonder how he got it so right.He spent a lot of time in the house-working, reading, writing letters. He saw to his wife, who required a lot of attention in her later years. And when he did get out, you wouldn't find him walking the mean streets. La Jolla, it must be noted, was never much for mean streets."Evan Hunter: "In his mid-seventies, after a couple of heart attacks, an...

Lawrence Block's new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years."Hard Sell, " a story ghost-written under Craig Rice's name, appeared in the first issue of Ed McBain's Mystery Magazinein 1960, and features Rice's hard-drinking yet clear-thinking lawyer, John J.Malone."Dead to the World, " which appeared under a one-shot pen name in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, has been lost for years, and the story...

Lawrence Block's WRITING THE NOVEL remained continuously in print since 1978. But the world of publishing has changed, and Block has expanded and updated his original text, bringing each chapter up to date and adding new material on ebooks, self-publishing, and what perils and opportunities await the new novelist-and the veteran as well.Unlike many advice-givers, Block doesn't tell you what book to write, or the one and only way to write it. H...

In Roseburg, Oregon, a bartender walks off his job and heads east with no destination in mind. The Cascades are in his way, but he doesn't let that stop him.He keeps walking. And other people are moved to join him, and as they walk the group generates a sort of collective energy, and unexpected things happen. Miraculous things, you might say.Meanwhile, in Kansas, a perfectly respectable real estate professional loses his temper with a prostitu...

For fourteen years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible...and now The Liar's Companion.Reader reviews:"This recently released treasure from award winning mystery author Lawrence Block is a welcome addition to my bookshelf. ...Block has ...

Five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column for Writers Digest Magazine for fourteen years. The Liar's Bible consists of previously uncollected columns, chosen to illuminate the often dimly-lit path of the writer of fiction.Here's what one reader said:"I am fascinated by the creative process and there are few excellent examples of this that I have found - there is Koestler's The Act of Creation insightful ...

The Criminal Defense Lawyer. Redefined.Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent--no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spouse's car, or holding the bloody blade. But things have a way of wo...