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Lawrence Block is an author best known for writing novels of the crime and mystery and other fiction novels for over 50 years. He has written over 100 books. The first time his name appeared in print was on the short story “You Can’t Lose,” which was published in February of 1958 in the magazine, Manhunt.
He has written several series of books each based on a specific character. One of them featured the Matthew Scudder (a cop-turned-private detective). Another featured a suave gentleman burglar named Bernie Rhodenbarr. He has published under several pseudonyms as well as his own name; these pen names include Jill Emerson, John Warren Wells, Lesley Evans, and Anne Campbell Clarke.
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Order of Bernie Rhodenbarr Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Burglars Can't Be Choosers | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Burglar in the Closet | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Like a Thief in the Night (Short Story) | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Burglar Takes a Cat (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Burglar in the Library | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Burglar in the Rye | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Burglar on the Prowl | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
15 | A Bad Night for Burglars (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Burglar in Short Order | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Chip Harrison Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | No Score | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Chip Harrison Scores Again | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Make Out with Murder | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Topless Tulip Caper | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
5 | As Dark as Christmas Gets (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Death of the Mallory Queen | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of Chip Harrison Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | No Score | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Chip Harrison Scores Again | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Make Out with Murder | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Topless Tulip Caper | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Death of the Mallory Queen | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
6 | As Dark as Christmas Gets (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Evan Tanner Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Canceled Czech | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Tanner's Twelve Swingers | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Tanner's Tiger | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Me Tanner, You Jane | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Tanner on Ice | 1998 | Description / Buy |
Order of Jill Emerson Series as Jill Emerson
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Getting Off | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Trouble with Eden | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Shadows | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Enough of Sorrow | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Threesome | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Warm and Willing | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Thirty | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of John Keller Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Hit Man | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Hit List | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Hit Parade | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Hit and Run | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Keller in Dallas | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Hit Me | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Keller's Adjustment | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Keller on the Spot | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Keller's Therapy (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Keller's Horoscope | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Keller's Fedora (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Keller's Homecoming (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Keller's Designated Hitter (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Keller the Dogkiller (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Keller in Des Moines (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Quotidian Keller (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Keller on Horseback (Short Story) | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Kit Tolliver Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | If You Can't Stand the Heat | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Rude Awakening | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | You Can Call Me Lucky | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Clean Slate | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Waitress Wanted | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Jilling (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Conjugal Rites | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
8 | One Kind Favor I Ask of You | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Don't Get in the Car | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Fun with Brady and Angelica | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Zeroing In | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Unfinished Business | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lou Largo Series with William Ard
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Babe in the Woods | 1960 | Description / Buy |
Order of Manhattan Noir Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Manhattan Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics | 2008 | Description / Buy |
Order of Matthew Scudder Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Sins of the Fathers | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Time to Murder and Create | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
3 | In the Midst of Death | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Stab in the Dark | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Eight Million Ways to Die | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
6 | When the Sacred Ginmill Closes | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Out on the Cutting Edge | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
8 | A Ticket to the Boneyard | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
9 | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
10 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Devil Knows You're Dead | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
12 | A Long Line of Dead Men | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Even the Wicked | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Out the Window (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Everybody Dies | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Hope to Die | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
17 | A Moment of Wrong Thinking (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
18 | All the Flowers are Dying | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
19 | A Drop of the Hard Stuff | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Let's Get Lost (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
21 | A Candle for the Bag Lady (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
22 | A Time to Scatter Stones | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Murderous Christmas Stories Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Murder on Christmas Eve | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Murder on a Winter's Night | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Murder in the Falling Snow | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Paul Kavanagh Series as Paul Kavanagh
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Such Men are Dangerous | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Triumph of Evil | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Not Comin' Home to You | 1974 | Description / Buy |
Order of Seven Deadly Sins Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Speaking of Wrath | 2002 | Description / Buy |
Order of Transgressions Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Transgressions | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Transgressions, Vol. 2 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Transgressions, Vol. 3 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Transgressions, Vol. 4 | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lawrence Block Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Carla | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Into the Night | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
3 | 69 Barrow Street | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Campus Tramp | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Candy | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
6 | A Girl Called Honey | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Kept | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
8 | A Strange Kind of Love | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Adulterers | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
11 | A Diet of Treacle | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Cinderella Sims | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Killing Castro | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
15 | $20 Lust / Cinderella Sims | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Twisted Ones | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Borderline | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Strange Embrace | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Sin Hellcat | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Lucky at Cards | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The Girl with the Long Green Heart | 1965 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Deadly Honeymoon | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
24 | After the First Death | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Specialists | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
27 | A Week as Andrea Benstock | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Ariel | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Code of Arms | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Random Walk | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Lost Cases of Ed London | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Small Town | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Community of Women | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
34 | The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Passport to Peril | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Sinner Man | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
37 | April North / High School Sex Club | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Dead Girl Blues | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lawrence Block Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Collecting Ackermans (Short Story) | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
2 | By the Dawn's Early Light (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Merciful Angel of Death (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Chance to Get Even (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Dolly's Trash & Treasures (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Welcome to the Real World (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Who Knows Where It Goes (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Scenarios (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Headaches and Bad Dreams (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Sweet Little Hands (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
11 | You Don't Even Feel It (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
12 | In For a Penny (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Three in the Side Pocket (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Like a Bone in the Throat (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Nothing Short of Highway Robbery (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Ehrengraf Fandango (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
17 | I Know How to Pick 'Em (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Autumn at the Automat (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Resume Speed (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lawrence Block Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Like a Lamb to Slaughter | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Sometimes They Bite | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Some Days You Get the Bear | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
4 | By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Collected Mystery Stories | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Enough Rope | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Crazy Years | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Catch and Release | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Resume Speed and Other Stories | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
11 | From Sea to Stormy Sea | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lawrence Block Plays
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | How Far (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lawrence Block Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Wife-Swap Report | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 3 is Not a Crowd | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Sex and the Stewardess | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Sex Therapists | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Different Strokes | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Total Sexuality | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Write for Your Life | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
11 | After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Liar's Bible | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Liar's Companion | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Male Hustler (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Wide Open | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Come Fly With Us (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Beyond Group Sex | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Crime of Our Lives | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
23 | A Writer Prepares | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | One Night Stands and Lost Weekends | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Night and the Music | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Series with Joe R. Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Black Dahlia White Rose | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Men's Adventure Library Journal Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Cryptozoology Anthology | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Handful of Hell | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Barbarians on Bikes (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
5 | I Watched Them Eat Me Alive (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Pollen's Women (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Pollen's Action (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Mort Kunstler (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
11 | One Man Army (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg (Short Story) | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Maneaters | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
14 | George Gross: Covered (Short Story) | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Naked and the Deadly | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Akashic Noir Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | San Francisco Noir | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Seattle Noir | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bronx Noir | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Brooklyn Noir | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Brooklyn Noir 2 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Chicago Noir | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Manhattan Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Miami Noir: The Classics | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
9 | D.C. Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Baltimore Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
11 | London Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
12 | New Orleans Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Los Angeles Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Wall Street Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Havana Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Detroit Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Toronto Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Las Vegas Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Manhattan Noir 2 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Paris Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Istanbul Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Boston Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Rome Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
25 | San Francisco Noir 2 | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Portland Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Delhi Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Phoenix Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Los Angeles Noir 2 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Mexico City Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Richmond Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Orange County Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Indian Country Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Moscow Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Lone Star Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Philadelphia Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Haiti Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Copenhagen Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Pittsburgh Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
40 | San Diego Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Pittsburgh Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Barcelona Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Cape Cod Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Staten Island Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Mumbai Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Long Island Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Venice Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Kingston Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
49 | St. Petersburg Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Kansas City Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
51 | Boston Noir 2 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Manila Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Buffalo Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
54 | Twin Cities Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Dallas Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
56 | Haiti Noir 2 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
57 | Singapore Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
58 | Prison Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Tel Aviv Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
60 | Tehran Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Belfast Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Helsinki Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
63 | Providence Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
64 | Chicago Noir: The Classics | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Memphis Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
66 | Zagreb Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Marseille Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Beirut Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Stockholm Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
70 | Brussels Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Mississippi Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
72 | St. Louis Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
73 | Prague Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
74 | San Juan Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
75 | Oakland Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
76 | Trinidad Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
77 | Atlanta Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
78 | New Haven Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
79 | Montana Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
80 | Buenos Aires Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
81 | Montreal Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
82 | Berlin Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
83 | São Paulo Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
84 | Santa Cruz Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
85 | Lagos Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
86 | Marrakech Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
87 | Baghdad Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
88 | Vancouver Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
89 | Sydney Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
90 | Hong Kong Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
91 | Amsterdam Noir | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
92 | Houston Noir | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
93 | Columbus Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
94 | Santa Fe Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
95 | Alabama Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
96 | Addis Ababa Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
97 | Tampa Bay Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
98 | Belgrade Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Lawrence Block Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Eyes Have It | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Chapter and Hearse | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Perfect Murder | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Monsters in Our Midst | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Dark Crimes 2 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The New Mystery | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Bad Behavior | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Night Screams | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
17 | First Cases, Volume 1 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Win, Lose or Die | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Law and Order | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Plot Thickens | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
21 | First Cases, Volume 2 | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Crimes of Passion | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Mystery's Most Wanted | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Hot Blood X | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Best of the Best | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Murder on the Run | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
30 | The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
35 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Opening Shots, Vol. II | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Pulp Masters | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Mighty Johns | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Murder Most Merry | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Most Wanted | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Blood on Their Hands | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Bronx Noir | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
45 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
46 | High Stakes | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
47 | In the Shadow of the Master | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Greatest Hits | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Transgressions | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Brooklyn Noir 2 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
51 | These Guns for Hire | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Transgressions, Vol. 2 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
53 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
54 | A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
55 | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
56 | The Sounds Of Crime | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
57 | The Dark End of the Street | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
58 | Indian Country Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Masters of Noir, Volume One | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
60 | The Shamus Winners | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Masters of Noir, Volume Three | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
62 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
63 | Warriors 3 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
64 | In Pursuit of Spenser | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Psychos | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
66 | USA Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Inherit the Dead | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Dangerous Women | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
70 | Buffalo Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
72 | Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
73 | Mostly Murder | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
74 | In Sunlight or In Shadow | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
75 | Gym Rat & Murder Club | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
76 | Alive in Shape and Color | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
77 | Florida Happens | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
78 | At Home in the Dark | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
79 | The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
80 | The Darkling Halls of Ivy | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
81 | Collectibles | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
82 | Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
83 | Playing Games | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
84 | The Dark Waves of Winter | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
85 | The Amber Waves of Autumn | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Lawrence Block Awards:
Over his long career, Block has earned many awards for his work. He won four Edgar and Shamus awards, and two Japanese Maltese Falcon awards. Some of the other ones he has received include the Nero Wolfe and Phillip Marlow awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. He got another Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers Association, which is in the United Kingdom. Mystery Ink magazine gave him the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award. He also got the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Lifetime Achievement award in the short story category. He has also been featured in several mystery writing festivals.
Lawrence Block Books Into Movies:
Many of Block’s stories have been turned into movies. The first one was an adaptation of his novel, Campus Tramp, this was made into the movie The Antioch Adventure in 1967. In 1974, his book, Nightmare Honeymoon, was made into a movie. In 1985, one of his short stories was used on an episode of a series called Tales of the Unexpected; the episode was called “Nothin’ Short of Highway Robbery. His novel, 8 Million Ways To Die, was adapted into a movie in 1986. One of his stories was used in an episode of the short-lived series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1987; the episode was called “When This Man Dies.” One of his series of books was made into a movie in 1987 called The Burglar. In 2003, a story called Bradford in My Dreams was made into an episode of the series Spine Chillers. Block wrote a couple episodes of the series Tilt in 2005. He wrote a screenplay for a movie called My Blueberry Nights in 2007. Most recently, his novel A Walk Among the Tombstones was made into a movie in 2014.
Best Lawrence Block Books:
These books provide the introductions for each of Lawrence Block’s most successful series.
The Sins Of The Father: This is the first book in the Matthew Scudder series. This book revolves around the alleged murder of a young prostitute. The suspect is a minister’s son, and he hanged himself in his jail cell. The victim’s father comes to Scudder for answers about his daughter’s death.
Burglars Can’ Be Choosers: This book is an introduction into Block’s Benie Rhodenbarr series. Rhodenbarr is a good neighbor and friend and poker player. and professional burglar. He is a modern-day Robin Hood stealing from the rich well-to-do people of New York City. The reason he only robs rich people is because the poor don’t have anything to steal. In the introduction to this series, he gets himself in a huge heap of trouble when he goes to steal from someone and he finds their bloody corpse. The cops arrive and see him in the apartment, so this starts Rhodenbarr on a journey to find the real killer while avoiding jail.
Keller: This book is the introduction for the series of the same name. Keller is a stereotypical urban lonely guy. He works for decent pay, and he lives in a nice apartment. He also takes a little trip and kills someone in another country. He starts having doubts about his life, and he goes to a therapist. Then he decides to get a dog and a girlfriend.
Evan Tanner: This book begins the Evan Tanner series. Tanner hasn’t gotten any sleep in a decade. This started after a piece of shrapnel got embedded in his skull while he was on the battlefield. He finds very interesting ways to occupy his never ending waking hours. He joins many odd organizations such as the Flat Earth Society.
When Does The Next Lawrence Block book come out?
Lawrence Block doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder and was released on June, 24th 2023. It is the newest book in the Matthew Scudder Series.