Lawrence Block
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Well past retirement age and feeling his years - but still staying sober one day at a time - Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. They set off on a cross-country killing spree. As the dragnet draws tighter they only grow closer, riding a road that leads to death because death has surrounded them all the time.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
28) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man ... a worse man ... a sinner man?"--
29) Cinderella Sims
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After Louisville Times reporter Ted Lindsay loses his wife--first to another man, then to a car accident--he relocates to New York, where he meets Cinderella Jones, who is on the run from a gang that she stole fifty thousand dollars from.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While robbing houses, apartments, and a museum, burglars Bernie Rhodenbarr and Carolyn Kaiser stumble over a dead body.
31) Grifter's game
Author
Publisher
Dorchester Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2004, c1961
Language
English
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Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
For rare book dealer Rhodenbarr, first editions are his pride, but illegal entry will always be his passion. When a job appraising the private collection of Gordon Onderdonk, a Manhattan millionaire, gives Rhodenbarr a chance to checkout the tempting personal holdings of the rich and famous.
Bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr sets out to steal a priceless Mondrian painting from the home of Manhattan millionaire Gordon Onderdonk, but his plans go...
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn't connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he's got the short form locked down as well.
Brings together seventeen never-before-collected tales of murder and desire in a deluxe hardcover...
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In The Night and the Music, Lawrence Block has compiled all of Scudder's shorter cases into one volume, from the Edgar Award-winning "By the Dawn's Early Light" (inspiration for the novel many consider the best in the series, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes) and the Shamus Award-winning "The Merciful Angel of Death" to the two substantial novelettes--"Out the Window" and "A Candle for the Bag Lady"--that kept the character alive after the first three...