Lawrence Block Books in Order

Lawrence Block is a celebrated author of crime, mystery, and suspense fiction with a career spanning over five decades. He has authored more than 100 books and numerous short stories. Born in Buffalo, New York, Block attended Antioch College before leaving to pursue his writing career, which he was encouraged to do by the college's authorities. Block's early work, published under pseudonyms, was primarily in the field of midcentury erotica, a genre he shared with notable authors Donald E. Westlake and Robert Silverberg. His first published story, "You Can't Lose," appeared in the February 1958 issue of Manhunt, marking the beginning of his writing career. Block's first book, Mona (1961), was reissued several times, including as Sweet Slow Death, and later as Grifter's Game by Hard Case Crime in 2005. Block is renowned for his series characters, including Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, and Keller, each with their unique personalities and stories. He has also written under various pseudonyms, including Jill Emerson, John Warren Wells, Lesley Evans, and Anne Campbell Clarke. Block's work has been featured in prominent magazines such as American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, and Ladies' Home Journal.

Bibliography verified: January 2026

Book Series by Lawrence Block

  • #1
    Burglars Can't Be Choosers(1977)
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    The Burglar in the Closet(1978)
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    The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling(1979)
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    The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza(1980)
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    The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian(1983)
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  • #6
    Like a Thief in the Night(1983)
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    The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams(1994)
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    The Burglar Takes a Cat(1994)
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    The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart(1995)
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    The Burglar in the Library(1997)
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    The Burglar in the Rye(1998)
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    The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis(1999)
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    The Burglar on the Prowl(2001)
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    The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke(2011)
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  • #15
    A Bad Night for Burglars(2011)
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    The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons(2013)
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    The Burglar in Short Order(2020)
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    The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown(2022)
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    No Score(1970)
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  • #2
    Chip Harrison Scores Again(1971)
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  • #3
    Make Out with Murder(1974)
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  • #4
    The Topless Tulip Caper(1975)
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  • #5
    As Dark as Christmas Gets(2011)
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  • #6
    Death of the Mallory Queen(2016)
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    The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep(1966)
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    The Canceled Czech(1966)
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    Tanner's Twelve Swingers(1967)
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  • #4
    Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin(1968)
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  • #5
    The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner(1968)
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    Tanner's Tiger(1968)
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    Me Tanner, You Jane(1986)
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  • #8
    Tanner on Ice(1998)
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  • #1
    Hit Man(1998)
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    Hit List(2000)
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    Hit Parade(2006)
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    Hit and Run(2008)
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  • #5
    Keller in Dallas(2009)
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    Hit Me(2012)
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    Keller's Adjustment(2012)
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    Keller on the Spot(2013)
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  • #9
    Keller's Therapy(2013)
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    Keller's Horoscope(2013)
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    Keller's Fedora(2016)
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  • #12
    Keller's Homecoming(2016)
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    Keller's Designated Hitter(2016)
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    Keller the Dogkiller(2016)
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    Keller in Des Moines(2016)
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    Quotidian Keller(2017)
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    Keller on Horseback(2021)
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    If You Can't Stand the Heat(2013)
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    Rude Awakening(2013)
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  • #3
    You Can Call Me Lucky(2013)
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    Clean Slate(2013)
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    Waitress Wanted(2013)
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    Jilling(2013)
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    Conjugal Rites(2013)
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  • #8
    One Kind Favor I Ask of You(2013)
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  • #9
    Don't Get in the Car(2013)
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  • #10
    Fun with Brady and Angelica(2013)
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  • #11
    Zeroing In(2013)
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  • #12
    Unfinished Business(2013)
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    Black DahliaWhite Rose (By: Joyce Carol Oates)(2011)
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  • #2
    Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils(1983)
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  • #3
    The Eyes Have It(1984)
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  • #4
    Chapter and Hearse(1985)
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  • #5
    The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction(1988)
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  • #6
    The Perfect Murder(1991)
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  • #7
    The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991(1992)
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  • #8
    Monsters in Our Midst(1993)
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    The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992(1993)
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  • #10
    Dark Crimes 2(1993)
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  • #11
    The New Mystery(1993)
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  • #12
    The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion(1993)
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  • #13
    The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem(1994)
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  • #14
    The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993(1994)
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  • #15
    Bad Behavior(1995)
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    The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996(1995)
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  • #17
    Night Screams(1996)
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  • #18
    First Cases, Volume 1(1996)
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  • #19
    Win, Lose or Die(1996)
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  • #20
    Law and Order(1997)
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  • #21
    The Plot Thickens(1997)
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  • #22
    First Cases, Volume 2(1997)
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  • #23
    Crimes of Passion(1997)
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  • #24
    Mystery's Most Wanted(1997)
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    Hot Blood X(1998)
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  • #26
    The Best of the Best(1998)
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  • #27
    Murder on the Run(1998)
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    The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997(1998)
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  • #29
    The Best American Mystery Stories 1998(1998)
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  • #30
    Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas(1999)
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    The Best American Mystery Stories 1999(1999)
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  • #32
    Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them(2000)
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  • #33
    The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century(2000)
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  • #34
    The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1(2000)
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  • #35
    Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories(2000)
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    The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2(2000)
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    The Best American Mystery Stories 2001(2001)
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    Opening Shots, Vol. II(2001)
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  • #39
    Tails of Wonder and Imagination(2001)
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  • #40
    Pulp Masters(2001)
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  • #41
    The Mighty Johns(2002)
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  • #42
    Murder Most Merry(2002)
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  • #43
    Most Wanted(2002)
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    The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3(2002)
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  • #45
    Blood on Their Hands(2003)
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    The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4(2003)
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  • #47
    High Stakes(2003)
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  • #48
    In the Shadow of the Master(2003)
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  • #49
    Greatest Hits(2005)
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  • #50
    Transgressions(2005)
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  • #51
    These Guns for Hire(2006)
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  • #52
    Transgressions, Vol. 2(2006)
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  • #53
    The Best American Mystery Stories 2007(2007)
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  • #54
    A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories(2008)
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  • #55
    L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories(2010)
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  • #56
    The Sounds Of Crime(2010)
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  • #57
    The Dark End of the Street(2010)
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  • #58
    Indian Country Noir(2010)
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  • #59
    Masters of Noir, Volume One(2010)
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  • #60
    The Shamus Winners(2010)
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    Masters of Noir, Volume Three(2010)
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  • #62
    The Best American Mystery Stories 2011(2011)
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    Warriors 3(2011)
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  • #64
    In Pursuit of Spenser(2012)
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  • #65
    Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire(2012)
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  • #66
    Psychos(2012)
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  • #67
    Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s(2013)
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  • #68
    The Crooked Road, Volume 2(2013)
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  • #69
    Inherit the Dead(2013)
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  • #70
    Dangerous Women(2013)
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  • #71
    Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories(2014)
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  • #72
    Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC)(2015)
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  • #73
    Mostly Murder(2016)
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  • #74
    In Sunlight or In Shadow(2016)
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  • #75
    Gym Rat & Murder Club(2016)
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  • #76
    Alive in Shape and Color(2017)
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  • #77
    Florida Happens(2018)
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  • #78
    At Home in the Dark(2019)
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  • #79
    The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe(2020)
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  • #80
    The Darkling Halls of Ivy(2020)
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  • #81
    Collectibles(2021)
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  • #82
    Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds(2021)
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  • #83
    Playing Games(2023)
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  • #84
    The Dark Waves of Winter(2023)
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  • #85
    The Amber Waves of Autumn(2024)
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    Murderers' Row: Original Baseball Mysteries: Volume 1(2025)
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  • #1
    Manhattan Noir(2006)
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  • #2
    Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics(2008)
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  • #1
    The Sins of the Fathers(1976)
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  • #2
    Time to Murder and Create(1976)
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  • #3
    In the Midst of Death(1976)
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  • #4
    A Candle for the Bag Lady(1977)
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  • #5
    A Stab in the Dark(1981)
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  • #6
    Eight Million Ways to Die(1982)
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  • #7
    By the Dawn's Early Light(1984)
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  • #8
    When the Sacred Ginmill Closes(1986)
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  • #9
    Out on the Cutting Edge(1989)
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  • #10
    A Ticket to the Boneyard(1990)
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  • #11
    Batman’s Helpers(1990)
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  • #12
    A Dance at the Slaughterhouse(1991)
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  • #13
    A Walk Among the Tombstones(1992)
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  • #14
    The Devil Knows You're Dead(1993)
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  • #15
    The Merciful Angel of Death(1993)
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  • #16
    A Long Line of Dead Men(1994)
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  • #17
    Even the Wicked(1996)
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  • #18
    Out the Window(1997)
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  • #19
    Looking for David(1997)
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  • #20
    Everybody Dies(1998)
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  • #21
    Let's Get Lost(2000)
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  • #22
    Hope to Die(2001)
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  • #23
    A Moment of Wrong Thinking(2002)
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  • #24
    All the Flowers are Dying(2005)
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  • #25
    Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen(2011)
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  • #26
    A Drop of the Hard Stuff(2011)
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  • #27
    One Last Night at Grogan’s(2011)
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  • #28
    A Time to Scatter Stones(2018)
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  • #29
    The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder(2023)
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  • #1
    Murder under the Christmas Tree(2016)
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  • #2
    Murder on Christmas Eve(2017)
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  • #3
    A Very Murderous Christmas(2018)
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  • #4
    Murder at Christmas(2019)
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  • #5
    Murder in Midwinter(2020)
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  • #6
    Murder on a Winter's Night(2021)
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  • #7
    Murder in the Falling Snow(2022)
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    The Wife-Swap Report(1970)
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  • #2
    3 is Not a Crowd(1971)
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  • #3
    Sex and the Stewardess(1972)
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  • #4
    The Sex Therapists(1972)
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  • #5
    Different Strokes(1974)
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  • #6
    Total Sexuality(1974)
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  • #7
    Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel(1979)
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  • #8
    Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers(1981)
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  • #9
    Write for Your Life(1986)
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  • #10
    Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers(1988)
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  • #11
    After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block(1995)
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  • #12
    Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains(2004)
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  • #13
    Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir(2009)
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  • #14
    The Liar's Bible(2011)
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  • #15
    The Liar's Companion(2011)
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  • #16
    The Male Hustler(2012)
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  • #17
    Wide Open(2012)
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  • #18
    Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution(2012)
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  • #19
    Come Fly With Us(2012)
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  • #20
    Beyond Group Sex(2012)
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  • #21
    The Crime of Our Lives(2015)
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  • #22
    Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails(2019)
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  • #23
    A Writer Prepares(2021)
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  • #24
    Afterthoughts: Version 2.0(2021)
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  • #25
    One Night Stands and Lost Weekends(1999)
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  • #26
    The Night and the Music(2011)
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    Such Men are Dangerous(1969)
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  • #2
    The Triumph of Evil(1972)
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  • #3
    Not Comin' Home to You(1974)
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    Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire(2001)
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  • #2
    Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire(2001)
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  • #3
    Speaking of Wrath(2002)
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    Carla(1958)
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  • #2
    Into the Night (With: Cornell Woolrich)(1959)
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  • #3
    69 Barrow Street(1959)
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  • #4
    Campus Tramp(1959)
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  • #5
    Candy(1960)
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  • #6
    A Girl Called Honey(1960)
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  • #7
    Kept(1960)
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  • #8
    A Strange Kind of Love(1960)
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  • #9
    The Adulterers(1960)
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  • #10
    Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death(1961)
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  • #11
    A Diet of Treacle(1961)
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    Cinderella Sims(1961)
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  • #13
    Killing Castro(1961)
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    Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross(1961)
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    $20 Lust / Cinderella Sims(1961)
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  • #16
    The Twisted Ones(1961)
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    Borderline(1962)
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    The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder(1962)
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    Strange Embrace(1962)
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    Sin Hellcat(1962)
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  • #21
    Lucky at Cards(1964)
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  • #22
    The Girl with the Long Green Heart(1965)
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    Deadly Honeymoon(1967)
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  • #24
    After the First Death(1969)
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  • #25
    The Specialists(1969)
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  • #26
    Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man(1971)
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  • #27
    A Week as Andrea Benstock(1975)
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    Ariel(1979)
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  • #29
    Code of Arms (With: Harold King)(1981)
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    Random Walk(1988)
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    The Lost Cases of Ed London(2001)
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    Small Town(2002)
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  • #33
    Community of Women(2010)
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    The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes(2015)
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  • #35
    Passport to Peril (With: Anne Campbell Clark)(2016)
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  • #36
    Sinner Man(2016)
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  • #37
    April North / High School Sex Club(2019)
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  • #38
    Dead Girl Blues(2020)
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    Collecting Ackermans(1979)
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    A Chance to Get Even(2011)
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  • #41
    Dolly's Trash & Treasures(2011)
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    Welcome to the Real World(2011)
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    Who Knows Where It Goes(2011)
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    Scenarios(2011)
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    Headaches and Bad Dreams(2011)
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    Sweet Little Hands(2011)
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    You Don't Even Feel It(2011)
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    In For a Penny(2011)
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    Three in the Side Pocket(2011)
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    Like a Bone in the Throat(2011)
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    Nothing Short of Highway Robbery(2013)
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  • #52
    The Ehrengraf Fandango(2014)
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    I Know How to Pick 'Em(2014)
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    Autumn at the Automat(2016)
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    Resume Speed(2016)
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    Like a Lamb to Slaughter(1984)
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    Sometimes They Bite(1984)
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  • #58
    Some Days You Get the Bear(1993)
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  • #59
    By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories(1994)
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    The Collected Mystery Stories(1999)
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    Enough Rope(2002)
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  • #62
    The Crazy Years(2004)
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    Catch and Release(2011)
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    Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf(2014)
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  • #65
    Resume Speed and Other Stories(2018)
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    From Sea to Stormy Sea(2019)
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    How Far(2011)
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    He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Walter Kaylin)(2013)
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  • #2
    Cryptozoology Anthology (By: David Coleman,Wyatt Doyle)(2015)
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  • #3
    A Handful of Hell (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Robert F. Dorr)(2016)
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  • #4
    Barbarians on Bikes (By: Paul Bishop,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2016)
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  • #5
    I Watched Them Eat Me Alive (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2017)
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  • #6
    Pollen's Women (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen)(2018)
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    Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2018)
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    Pollen's Action (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen)(2019)
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    Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2019)
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    Mort Kunstler (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2019)
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    One Man Army (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Gil Cohen)(2020)
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    Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg (By: Robert Silverberg,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2021)
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  • #13
    Maneaters (By: Mort Künstler,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2021)
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  • #14
    George Gross: Covered (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2022)
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    The Naked and the Deadly(2023)
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    Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2023)
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    Barbarians on Bikes (By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)(2016)
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    Transgressions, Vol. 2 (With: Stephen King,Ed McBain,John Farris)(2006)
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    Transgressions, Vol. 3 (By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris)(2006)
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    Transgressions, Vol. 4 (By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain)(2006)
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About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is a celebrated author of crime, mystery, and suspense fiction with a career spanning over five decades. He has authored more than 100 books and numerous short stories. Born in Buffalo, New York, Block attended Antioch College before leaving to pursue his writing career, which he was encouraged to do by the college's authorities. Block's early work, published under pseudonyms, was primarily in the field of midcentury erotica, a genre he shared with notable authors Donald E. Westlake and Robert Silverberg. His first published story, "You Can't Lose," appeared in the February 1958 issue of Manhunt, marking the beginning of his writing career. Block's first book, Mona (1961), was reissued several times, including as Sweet Slow Death, and later as Grifter's Game by Hard Case Crime in 2005. Block is renowned for his series characters, including Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, and Keller, each with their unique personalities and stories. He has also written under various pseudonyms, including Jill Emerson, John Warren Wells, Lesley Evans, and Anne Campbell Clarke. Block's work has been featured in prominent magazines such as American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, and Ladies' Home Journal.

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