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All The Flowers Are Dying - CD-ROM Program
Block, Lawrence
2005 1561898227 In this, the 16th Matthew Scudder thriller, we meet a changed protagonist. Many of us are old enough to remember when we were first introduced to him some 25 years ago. If I remember correctly, Lawrence Block described him at that time as a former cop turned private eye (sans license) who drank a lot and worried the same. A quarter of a century can bring about many changes, and those years have made their mark on Matthew Scudder. Happily for listeners "All The Flowers Are Dying" is read by the author himself. A four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus Awards plus numerous other honors, Block has penned more than 50 books. Think you'll agree that his reading is also deserving of recognition. After all, who knows Matthew Scudder better than the man who created him? Block delivers nuances and chills with the aplomb of a trained actor. As our story opens there's a man awaiting execution in a Virginia prison. He received the death penalty on the basis of massive evidence, yet he maintains that he did not commit three gruesome murders. A psychologist has been interviewing the man, and completes his assignment by watching as the death sentence is carried out. What seems to be a parallel plot develops as Scudder takes on an investigation. It's just the kind of job he likes now - no danger just some probing and then a paycheck. No such luck. The corpses start piling up and it seems that the next to die may very well be Scudder and his wife. Is there a relationship between the convicted killer and these murders? Could the psychologist be involved? Listen as this master of suspense weaves one more of his spine tingling tales. SIX HOURS PLAYING TIME, 5 CDs, abridgement approved by author. Issued at THIRTY DOLLARS. Harperaudio 0060759658 / 9780060759650
CD-ROM Brand New Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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ENOUGH ROPE
Block, Lawrence
2002 900856 This hefty collection of acclaimed mystery master Lawrence Block's short fiction is packed with delights for fans of his many popular series as well as first-time readers who haven't yet met the engrossing protagonists who people them, including Keller, the thoughtful hit man; private eye Matt Scudder; burglar and bookstore owner Bernie Rhodenbarr; and Martin Ehrengraf, the well-dressed lawyer who takes criminal cases on a contingency basis and has his own devious methods for making sure his clients are always acquitted. But it's the non-series stories that are the standouts here, particularly "Cleveland in My Dreams," in which a psychiatrist comes up with a novel way to rid a patient of a relentless nightmare, and the patient passes on the "cure" to an unsuspecting friend; "Collecting Ackermans" and "Death Wish," two standouts about jealousy and its discontents; and a handful of other little gems with central characters who may not merit their own series because they're just not very likable, but show off Block's ability to keep the reader guessing until the last sentence. It may be hard to pick up--if only because it runs nearly a thousand pages--but this wry, witty, well-wrought collection is even harder to put down. A month before the mass market edition of his bestseller Hope to Die hits shelves, whodunit Grand Master Lawrence Block will come out with Enough Rope"in Blocks words, a huge doorstop of a thing "a collection of 83 stories spanning a career that began nearly five decades ago. With early tales (1957s You Cant Lose ) and recent ones (Terrible Tommy Terhune ), not to mention plenty featuring series heroes Martin Ehrengraf, Matthew Scudder and Keller, this compendium of sharply written short fiction will delight Blocks many fans, and likely earn him new ones. William Morrow 0-06-018890-1 / 9780060188900
Hardcover VERY GOOD CONDITION New York
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Enough Rope: Collected Stories
Block, Lawrence
2002 999657 Weighing in at nearly 900 pages and containing 83 mystery stories and novellas written over a 45-year period, this doorstop of a book is a remarkable monument to Lawrence Block's equally remarkable career. The earliest story in the collection, "You Can't Lose," first appeared in 1958. It's an energetic, unabashed piece of pulp that shows just a hint of Block's evolving narrative facility. Also included are the complete contents of three earlier collections (Sometimes They Bite, Like a Lamb to Slaughter, and Some Days You Get the Bear), plus self-contained excerpts from the episodic Keller novels Hit Man and Hit List, as well as many classic tales featuring Block's recurring characters Chip Harrison, Martin Ehrengraf, Bernie Rhodenbarr, and Matthew Scudder. The 23 more recent, previously uncollected stories that appear here are fresh, funny, and readable. Between the old material and the new, there are so many good pieces that it's impossible to review this collection in detail. Highlights include "Keller's Designated Hitter," in which the amateur philatelist and professional hit man leaves his mark on the national pastime; "Sometimes They Bite," which concerns the lethal encounter between two fishermen who meet and converse along a lonely stretch of river; and "A Thousand Dollars a Word," a heartfelt vignette about the economic predicament of the nickel-a-word pulp writer. Two of the nine Matthew Scudder stories reprinted here have won major awards and become minor classics: "By the Dawn's Early Light," which became the novel When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes, and the superb "A Candle for the Bag Lady," in which Scudder solves the murder of a homeless woman who has left him an unexpected legacy. For Block's admirers, this massive retrospective is essential reading. For the uninitiated, it provides a vigorous, varied introduction to one of the most prolific -- and significant -- figures in contemporary popular fiction. Enough Rope, a collection of superb stories, establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of contemporary Grand Master Lawrence Block. Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and the disarming duo of Chip Harrison and Leo Haig. Here, too, are Keller, the wistful hit man, and the natty attorney Martin Ehrengraf. Keeping them company are dozens of other refugees from Block's dazzling imagination, all caught up in more ingenious plots than you can shake a blunt instrument at. Half a dozen of Block's stories have been short-listed for the Edgar Award, and three have won it outright. All the tales in Block's three previous collections are here, along with two dozen new stories. Some will keep you on the edge of the chair. Others will make you roll on the floor laughing. Enough Rope is an essential volume for Lawrence Block fans, and a dazzling introduction for others to the wonderful world of Block magic! Publishers Weekly A month before the mass market edition of his bestseller Hope to Die hits shelves, whodunit Grand Master Lawrence Block will come out with Enough Rope"in Blocks words, a huge doorstop of a thing "a collection of 83 stories spanning a career that began nearly five decades ago. With early tales (1957s You Cant Lose ) and recent ones (Terrible Tommy Terhune ), not to mention plenty featuring series heroes Martin Ehrengraf, Matthew Scudder and Keller, this compendium of sharply written short fiction will delight Blocks many fans, and likely earn him new ones. HarperCollins Publishers 0-06-018890-1 / 9780060188900
Hardcover Very Good Condition New York
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EVERYBODY DIES
Block, Lawrence
1998 21536 From the Publisher Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question. It's a world where nothing is certain and nobody's safe, a random universe where no one's survival can be taken for granted. Not even his own. A world where everybody dies. From The Critics Marilyn Stasio One of the most harrowing yet most rewarding chapters in the education of a hero. -- New York Times Book Review Entertainment Weekly Lean, solid, always intelligent. Philadelphia Inquirer When Lawrence Block is in his Matt Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree ofdifference Fists and bullets fly, blood is shed in buckets and yet Scudder's complex internal life has never been more deeplyplumbed. Which is to say he's never been more interesting. Cleveland Plain Dealer A taut noir story one of Lawrence Block's best. Publishers Weekly The body count is indeed high in this latest Matt Scudder tale, which is also the best since A Walk Among the Tombstones (1993) -- resonant, thoughtful, richly textured and capped by a slam-bang windup. At the center of the case is Matt's old buddy, Mick Ballou, the murderous and hard-drinking Irish mobster with a deeply philosophical streak who is one of Block's most enduring creations. Two of Mick's henchmen have been killed in what should have been a routine liquor hijacking. After Scudder helps Mick bury the bodies at the mobster's upstate farm, he finds he has been targeted himself. Two hoods try to rough him up on the street, then an old friend, Matt's sponsor at Alcoholics Anonymous, is gunned down in a restaurant after being mistaken for Matt. It soon becomes clear that someone from Ballou's past is aiming to destroy him, and Matt, caught in the crossfire, has to try to determine who's behind the mayhem. He does so in his usual ruminative way, working it out with wife Elaine, streetwise sidekick TJ and old cop comrades who are now, because of his friendship with Ballou, against him. In the end, Matt has to stand alone with Ballou to put a stop to the vendetta in a blaze of gunfire. Block's seamless weave of thought and action, and his matchless gift for dialogue that is true, funny and revealing, have seldom been on more effective display. The pages leading up to the climax have an almost Shakespearean feel for human resignation in the face of mortality. (Publisher's Weekly best book of 1998) Read all 10 "From the Critics" HarperCollins Publishers 0-688-14182-X / 9780688141820
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GANGSTERS, SWINDLERS, KILLERS AND THIEVES: THE LIVES AND CRIMES OF FIFTY AMERICAN VILLIANS
Block, Lawrence
2004 6560 Crime novelist Lawrence Block has culled the pages of the American National Biography for a rogues' gallery of assassins, outlaws, bootleggers, con artists, and other figures from the underside of American history. Some, like Jesse James and Joe Colombo, led a life of crime. Others, like John Wilkes Booth and John White Webster, committed one notorious act. A few -- Pretty Boy Floyd, Belle Starr, the elusive thief Railroad Bill -- became folk heroes, romanticized in popular ballads. Illustrated with marvelous archival photographs, each portrait traces the villain's background, exploits, and eventual fate -- all with attention to the telling detail. The gangster Dutch Schultz was known not only for bootlegging but also for his cheap, ill-fitting suits. The stagecoach bandit Black Bart, in rhymed notes left behind at his holdups, called himself a poet (or, as the notes said, "PO8"). The convicted killer Nathan Leopold worked at a leprosy hospital after his parole. And when the itinerant outlaw Bill Doolin finally met his end, only a rusting buggy axle marked his grave. Block introduces each profile with a novelist's eye for character and a good story, from the picaresque to the chilling. His introduction examines America's complicated relationship with crime and our continuing fascination with its perpetrators. Many of the miscreants in this book were seen -- or saw themselves -- as modern-day Robin Hoods, legitimate businessmen, or victims of society. Whether they died in prison or in showdowns with the law, by their own hand or at the hands of others, their stories endure for their impact on the popular culture as much as for the magnitude or gravity of their crimes. FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal : Award-winning mystery writer Block edited this biographical collection of 50 American criminals, who run the gamut from the well known, such as Ted Bundy, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, and Bonnie and Clyde, to lesser known, such as Thomas Beer and John F. Deitz. (Beer wrote a biography of Stephen Crane, once seen as a major scholarly work but later discovered to have been written with forged source materials; Deitz killed two men in a dispute over a dam on his Wisconsin farm.). All 50 entries originally appeared in the multivolume The American National Biography. Block provides a general introduction, examining how Americans have regarded criminals through history, plus a short introduction for each of the subject selections, which together form a cross section of American criminals running from 19th-century outlaws to Mafia types to modern-day mass murders. This work is an entertaining historical overview of the American criminal world. For public libraries. . Oxford University Press 0-19-516952-2 / 9780195169522
Hardcover As New Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
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HOPE TO DIE (A NOVEL)
Block, Lawrence
2001 02869059 Hard Cover. Brand New/Brand New Book Jacket. 6 x 9". "Bryne and Susan Hollander are living the good life. He's a lawyer, and she's a writer; their $3 million Manhattan brownstone is within walking distance of Lincoln Center, where on this particular night, they attend a charity concert. When the concert ends, they walk home. That's when the good life ends. After interrupting a burglary in progress, Bryne and Susan are murdered. Within days, the police find the burglars, both dead, an apparent murder-suicide. Case officially closed. Unofficially, Matt Scudder takes an interest when the Holla nders' daughter hires him to explore the possibility of a third person's involvement. The clues are subtle--mostly circumstantial--but Scudder follows instincts honed over nearly 40 years of police an d investigative work. Block, who writes best-sellers and racks up awards in equal measure, adheres to most of crime fiction's formulas, but he still manages to bring a rare depth and power to the genre. Morrow/Avon
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TELLING LIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT: A MANUAL FOR FICTION WRITERS
Block, Lawrence
1989 160119 As the Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon Award-winning author of more than 40 novels and short-story collections, Lawrence Block knows a thing or two about how to write masterful fiction. He shares that knowledge in Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, an inside look at writing as both craft and career. Block covers such topics as mastering self-discipline; the mechanics of market analysis; generating ideas, plots and outlines; dialogue basics; the use of modifiers; and character building. Concise, constructive, and comprehensive. ANNOTATION From the award-winning author of A Walk Among the Tombstones, proven, practical advice on handling the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing game. Block's witty sourcebook is a must read for anyone serious about writing or about understanding how the process works. FROM THE PUBLISHER "I would urge other writers, at whatever point in their careers, to take the time to read this indispensable handbook....Telling Lies for Fun & Profit should be a permanent part of every writer's library."- From the Introduction by Sue Grafton Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career. From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline and "creative procrastination," through coping with rejections, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit is an invaluable sourcebook of information. It is a must read for anyone serious about writing or understanding how the process works. Martin Cruz Smith Lawrence Block is a writer's best friend. He is wise, he is funny, and, to tell the truth, he is damn helpful. When best friends and mothers fail, read this book. Sandia Publishing Corporation 0-944009-11-5 / 9780944009116
Soft Cover Very Good Condition Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
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