Lawrence Block

24 Series

Lawrence Block is an American crime fiction novelist renowned for his series featuring private investigator Matthew Scudder and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. He has authored numerous novels, many set in New York City, under various pseudonyms including Chip Harrison, Paul Kavanagh, Lee Duncan, and Sheldon Lord.

Lawrence Block collaborates with various authors to deliver a series of gripping tales. In "Babe in the Woods," co-authored with William Ard, a novice navigates the perils of the city. "Code of Arms," with Harold King, explores the dark underbelly of a seemingly honorable family. "Into the Night," co-authored by Cornell Woolrich, delves into the suspense of nocturnal escapades. "Hellcats and Honeygirls," written with Donald E. Westlake, showcases the dangerous allure of femme fatales. "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke," co-authored by Lynne Wood Block, follows a burglar's olfactory-driven heist, while "Terror's Echo," with John Farris and Stephen King, amplifies the horror of recurring nightmares.

Bernie Rhodenbarr

Burglars Can't Be Choosers

(1977)

The Burglar in the Closet

(1978)

The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling

(1979)

The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza

(1980)

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

(1983)

Like a Thief in the Night

(1983)

The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

(1994)

The Burglar Takes a Cat

(1994)

The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart

(1995)

The Burglar in the Library

(1997)

The Burglar in the Rye

(1998)

The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis

(1999)

The Burglar on the Prowl

(2001)

The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke

(2011)

A Bad Night for Burglars

(2011)

The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons

(2013)

The Burglar in Short Order

(2020)

The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown

(2022)

Chip Harrison

No Score

(1970)

Chip Harrison Scores Again

(1971)

Make Out with Murder

(1974)

The Topless Tulip Caper

(1975)

As Dark as Christmas Gets

(2011)

Death of the Mallory Queen

(2016)

Chronological Order of Chip Harrison

No Score

(1970)

Chip Harrison Scores Again

(1971)

Make Out with Murder

(1974)

The Topless Tulip Caper

(1975)

Death of the Mallory Queen

(2016)

As Dark as Christmas Gets

(2011)

Evan Tanner

The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

(1966)

The Canceled Czech

(1966)

Tanner's Twelve Swingers

(1967)

Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin

(1968)

The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner

(1968)

Tanner's Tiger

(1968)

Me Tanner, You Jane

(1986)

Tanner on Ice

(1998)

Jill Emerson (as Jill Emerson)

A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous

(1972)

Getting Off

(2011)

The Trouble with Eden

(2016)

Shadows

(2016)

Enough of Sorrow

(2016)

Threesome

(2016)

Warm and Willing

(2016)

Thirty

(2016)

John Keller

Hit Man

(1998)

Hit List

(2000)

Hit Parade

(2006)

Hit and Run

(2008)

Keller in Dallas

(2009)

Hit Me

(2012)

Keller's Adjustment

(2012)

Keller on the Spot

(2013)

Keller's Therapy

(2013)

Keller's Horoscope

(2013)

Keller's Fedora

(2016)

Keller's Homecoming

(2016)

Keller's Designated Hitter

(2016)

Keller the Dogkiller

(2016)

Keller in Des Moines

(2016)

Quotidian Keller

(2017)

Keller on Horseback

(2021)

Kit Tolliver

If You Can't Stand the Heat

(2013)

Rude Awakening

(2013)

You Can Call Me Lucky

(2013)

Clean Slate

(2013)

Waitress Wanted

(2013)

Jilling

(2013)

Conjugal Rites

(2013)

One Kind Favor I Ask of You

(2013)

Don't Get in the Car

(2013)

Fun with Brady and Angelica

(2013)

Zeroing In

(2013)

Unfinished Business

(2013)

Lou Largo (with William Ard)

Babe in the Woods

(1960)

Manhattan Noir

(2006)

Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics

(2008)

Matthew Scudder

The Sins of the Fathers

(1976)

Time to Murder and Create

(1976)

In the Midst of Death

(1976)

A Stab in the Dark

(1981)

Eight Million Ways to Die

(1982)

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

(1986)

Out on the Cutting Edge

(1989)

A Ticket to the Boneyard

(1990)

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

(1991)

A Walk Among the Tombstones

(1992)

The Devil Knows You're Dead

(1993)

A Long Line of Dead Men

(1994)

Even the Wicked

(1996)

Out the Window

(1997)

Everybody Dies

(1998)

Hope to Die

(2001)

A Moment of Wrong Thinking

(2002)

All the Flowers are Dying

(2005)

A Drop of the Hard Stuff

(2011)

Let's Get Lost

(2011)

A Candle for the Bag Lady

(2012)

A Time to Scatter Stones

(2018)

The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

(2023)

Murderous Christmas Stories

Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season

(2016)

Murder on Christmas Eve

(2017)

A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season

(2018)

Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season

(2019)

Murder on a Winter's Night

(2021)

Murder in the Falling Snow

(2022)

Paul Kavanagh (as Paul Kavanagh)

Such Men are Dangerous

(1969)

The Triumph of Evil

(1972)

Not Comin' Home to You

(1974)

Seven Deadly Sins

Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire

(2001)

Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire

(2001)

Speaking of Wrath

(2002)

Transgressions

(2005)(With: Stephen King,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris)

Transgressions, Vol. 2

(2006)(With: Stephen King,Ed McBain,John Farris)

Transgressions, Vol. 3

(2006)(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris)

Transgressions, Vol. 4

(2006)(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain)

Standalone Novels

Carla

(1958)

Into the Night

(1959)(With: Cornell Woolrich)

69 Barrow Street

(1959)

Campus Tramp

(1959)

Candy

(1960)

A Girl Called Honey

(1960)

Kept

(1960)

A Strange Kind of Love

(1960)

The Adulterers

(1960)

Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death

(1961)

A Diet of Treacle

(1961)

Cinderella Sims

(1961)

Killing Castro

(1961)

Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross

(1961)

$20 Lust / Cinderella Sims

(1961)

The Twisted Ones

(1961)

Borderline

(1962)

The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder

(1962)

Strange Embrace

(1962)

Sin Hellcat

(1962)

Lucky at Cards

(1964)

The Girl with the Long Green Heart

(1965)

Deadly Honeymoon

(1967)

After the First Death

(1969)

The Specialists

(1969)

Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man

(1971)

A Week as Andrea Benstock

(1975)

Ariel

(1979)

Code of Arms

(1981)(With: Harold King)

Random Walk

(1988)

The Lost Cases of Ed London

(2001)

Small Town

(2002)

Community of Women

(2010)

The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes

(2015)

Passport to Peril

(2016)(With: Anne Campbell Clark)

Sinner Man

(2016)

April North / High School Sex Club

(2019)

Dead Girl Blues

(2020)

Short Stories/Novellas

Collecting Ackermans

(1979)

By the Dawn's Early Light

(1984)

The Merciful Angel of Death

(1993)

A Chance to Get Even

(2011)

Dolly's Trash & Treasures

(2011)

Welcome to the Real World

(2011)

Who Knows Where It Goes

(2011)

Scenarios

(2011)

Headaches and Bad Dreams

(2011)

Sweet Little Hands

(2011)

You Don't Even Feel It

(2011)

In For a Penny

(2011)

Three in the Side Pocket

(2011)

Like a Bone in the Throat

(2011)

Nothing Short of Highway Robbery

(2013)

The Ehrengraf Fandango

(2014)

I Know How to Pick 'Em

(2014)

Autumn at the Automat

(2016)

Resume Speed

(2016)

Short Story Collections

Like a Lamb to Slaughter

(1984)

Sometimes They Bite

(1984)

Some Days You Get the Bear

(1993)

By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories

(1994)

The Collected Mystery Stories

(1999)

Enough Rope

(2002)

The Crazy Years

(2004)

Catch and Release

(2011)

Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf

(2014)

Resume Speed and Other Stories

(2018)

From Sea to Stormy Sea

(2019)

Plays

How Far

(2011)

Non-Fiction

The Wife-Swap Report

(1970)

3 is Not a Crowd

(1971)

Sex and the Stewardess

(1972)

The Sex Therapists

(1972)

Different Strokes

(1974)

Total Sexuality

(1974)

Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel

(1979)

Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers

(1981)

Write for Your Life

(1986)

Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers

(1988)

After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block

(1995)

Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains

(2004)

Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir

(2009)

The Liar's Bible

(2011)

The Liar's Companion

(2011)

The Male Hustler

(2012)

Wide Open

(2012)

Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution

(2012)

Come Fly With Us

(2012)

Beyond Group Sex

(2012)

The Crime of Our Lives

(2015)

Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails

(2019)

A Writer Prepares

(2021)

Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

(2021)

Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections

One Night Stands and Lost Weekends

(1999)

The Night and the Music

(2011)

Akashic Noir

San Francisco Noir

(2002)

Seattle Noir

(2003)

Bronx Noir

(2003)

Brooklyn Noir

(2004)

Brooklyn Noir 2

(2005)

Chicago Noir

(2005)

Manhattan Noir

(2006)

Miami Noir: The Classics

(2006)

D.C. Noir

(2006)

Baltimore Noir

(2006)

London Noir

(2006)

New Orleans Noir

(2007)

Los Angeles Noir

(2007)

Wall Street Noir

(2007)

Havana Noir

(2007)

Detroit Noir

(2007)

Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth

(2008)

Toronto Noir

(2008)

Las Vegas Noir

(2008)

Manhattan Noir 2

(2008)

Paris Noir

(2008)

Istanbul Noir

(2008)

Boston Noir

(2009)

Rome Noir

(2009)

San Francisco Noir 2

(2009)

Portland Noir

(2009)

Delhi Noir

(2009)

Phoenix Noir

(2009)

Los Angeles Noir 2

(2010)

Mexico City Noir

(2010)

Richmond Noir

(2010)

Orange County Noir

(2010)

Indian Country Noir

(2010)

Moscow Noir

(2010)

Lone Star Noir

(2010)

Philadelphia Noir

(2010)

Haiti Noir

(2010)

Copenhagen Noir

(2010)

Pittsburgh Noir

(2011)

San Diego Noir

(2011)

Pittsburgh Noir

(2011)

Barcelona Noir

(2011)

Cape Cod Noir

(2011)

Staten Island Noir

(2012)

Mumbai Noir

(2012)

Long Island Noir

(2012)

Venice Noir

(2012)

Kingston Noir

(2012)

St. Petersburg Noir

(2012)

Kansas City Noir

(2012)

Boston Noir 2

(2012)

Manila Noir

(2013)

Buffalo Noir

(2013)

Twin Cities Noir

(2013)

Dallas Noir

(2013)

Haiti Noir 2

(2013)

Singapore Noir

(2014)

Prison Noir

(2014)

Tel Aviv Noir

(2014)

Tehran Noir

(2014)

Belfast Noir

(2014)

Helsinki Noir

(2014)

Providence Noir

(2015)

Chicago Noir: The Classics

(2015)

Memphis Noir

(2015)

Zagreb Noir

(2015)

Marseille Noir

(2015)

Beirut Noir

(2015)

Stockholm Noir

(2016)

Brussels Noir

(2016)

Mississippi Noir

(2016)

St. Louis Noir

(2016)

Prague Noir

(2016)

San Juan Noir

(2016)

Oakland Noir

(2017)

Trinidad Noir

(2017)

Atlanta Noir

(2017)

New Haven Noir

(2017)

Montana Noir

(2017)

Buenos Aires Noir

(2017)

Montreal Noir

(2017)

Berlin Noir

(2018)

São Paulo Noir

(2018)

Santa Cruz Noir

(2018)

Lagos Noir

(2018)

Marrakech Noir

(2018)

Baghdad Noir

(2018)

Vancouver Noir

(2018)

Sydney Noir

(2018)

Hong Kong Noir

(2018)

Amsterdam Noir

(2019)

Houston Noir

(2019)

Columbus Noir

(2020)

Santa Fe Noir

(2020)

Alabama Noir

(2020)

Addis Ababa Noir

(2020)

Tampa Bay Noir

(2020)

Belgrade Noir

(2020)

The Men's Adventure Library Journal

He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos

(2013)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Walter Kaylin)

Cryptozoology Anthology

(2015)(By: David Coleman,Wyatt Doyle)

A Handful of Hell

(2016)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Robert F. Dorr)

Barbarians on Bikes

(2016)(By: Paul Bishop,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

I Watched Them Eat Me Alive

(2017)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

Pollen's Women

(2018)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen)

Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter

(2018)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

Pollen's Action

(2019)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen)

Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel

(2019)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

Mort Kunstler

(2019)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

One Man Army

(2020)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Gil Cohen)

Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg

(2021)(By: Robert Silverberg,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

Maneaters

(2021)(By: Mort Künstler,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

George Gross: Covered

(2022)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

The Naked and the Deadly

(2023)

Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants

(2023)(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle)

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories (with Joe R. Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer)

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories

(2010)(With: Joe R. Lansdale,Joyce Carol Oates,Megan Abbott,Duane Swierczynski,Andrew Vachss,Francine Prose,Jonathan Santlofer)

Black DahliaWhite Rose

(2011)(By: Joyce Carol Oates)

Anthologies

Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils

(1983)

The Eyes Have It

(1984)

Chapter and Hearse

(1985)

The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction

(1988)

The Perfect Murder

(1991)

The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991

(1992)

Monsters in Our Midst

(1993)

The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992

(1993)

Dark Crimes 2

(1993)

The New Mystery

(1993)

The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion

(1993)

The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem

(1994)

The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993

(1994)

Bad Behavior

(1995)

The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996

(1995)

Night Screams

(1996)

First Cases, Volume 1

(1996)

Win, Lose or Die

(1996)

Law and Order

(1997)

The Plot Thickens

(1997)

First Cases, Volume 2

(1997)

Crimes of Passion

(1997)

Mystery's Most Wanted

(1997)

Hot Blood X

(1998)

The Best of the Best

(1998)

Murder on the Run

(1998)

The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997

(1998)

The Best American Mystery Stories 1998

(1998)

Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas

(1999)

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

(1999)

Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them

(2000)

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

(2000)

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

(2000)

Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories

(2000)

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2

(2000)

The Best American Mystery Stories 2001

(2001)

Opening Shots, Vol. II

(2001)

Pulp Masters

(2001)

The Mighty Johns

(2002)

Murder Most Merry

(2002)

Most Wanted

(2002)

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3

(2002)

Blood on Their Hands

(2003)

Bronx Noir

(2003)

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4

(2003)

High Stakes

(2003)

In the Shadow of the Master

(2003)

Greatest Hits

(2005)

Transgressions

(2005)

Brooklyn Noir 2

(2005)

These Guns for Hire

(2006)

Transgressions, Vol. 2

(2006)

The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

(2007)

A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories

(2008)

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories

(2010)

The Sounds Of Crime

(2010)

The Dark End of the Street

(2010)

Indian Country Noir

(2010)

Masters of Noir, Volume One

(2010)

The Shamus Winners

(2010)

Masters of Noir, Volume Three

(2010)

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

(2011)

Warriors 3

(2011)

In Pursuit of Spenser

(2012)

Psychos

(2012)

USA Noir

(2013)

Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s

(2013)

Inherit the Dead

(2013)

Dangerous Women

(2013)

Buffalo Noir

(2013)

Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories

(2014)

Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC)

(2015)

Mostly Murder

(2016)

In Sunlight or In Shadow

(2016)

Gym Rat & Murder Club

(2016)

Alive in Shape and Color

(2017)

Florida Happens

(2018)

At Home in the Dark

(2019)

The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe

(2020)

The Darkling Halls of Ivy

(2020)

Collectibles

(2021)

Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds

(2021)

Playing Games

(2023)

The Dark Waves of Winter

(2023)

The Amber Waves of Autumn

(2024)

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