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A Ticket to the Boneyard
Matthew Scudder, free-lance unlicensed investigator, is working for Reliable Investigations. He's recently off the booze and is attending Alcoholics A...

A Walk Among the Tombstones
Matt Scudder is about to take a week's vacation in Ireland when he gets the call: a woman has been kidnapped and brutally murdered despite her husband...

All the Flowers Are Dying
In Lawrence Block's 16th Matthew Scudder mystery, Matt is semi-retired. He agrees to follow his client's mysterious boyfriend to find out if he is wha...

Burglars Can't Be Choosers
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Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Matt Scudder is an alcoholic, a private detective without a licence and a good guy. In Block's earlier novels featuring Scudder he drank a lot, now ...

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Eight Million Ways to Die
Kim Dakkinen, a high-priced prostitute wants out. She hires Matthew Scudder, a policeman turned private detective, to tell her pimp, Chance, that she'...



Enough Rope
This must be the biggest book of short stories in print. There are eighty-four of them and all by Lawrence Block. Some of them feature characters that...

Even the Wicked
Adrian Whitfield, a prominent defense attorney, wants private detective Matthew Scudder to keep him alive. Whitfield is the fifth person to be named ...

Everybody Dies
Private investigator, Matthew Scudder, puts his own life in jeopardy in trying to solve a mystery and save the life of a very close, but criminal, fri...

Hit List
John Keller kills people. Keller lives in his mid-size New York apartment, goes on dates, watches TV, visits his astrologer, collects stamps, and occa...

Hit Man
Hit Man has no real plot, being a series of episodes in the life of John Paul Keller, a middle-class bachelor who lives in New York and works as the f...

Lawrence Block list of books

Hope To Die
Morrow, Nov 2001, 25.00, 320 pp. ISBN: 006019832X In Manhattan someone brutally kills Byrne and Susan Hollander in their home with their d...

In the Midst of Death
Jerry Broadfield, an admittedly crooked cop, hires Matthew Scudder to help him prove he's not shaking down a prostitute, Portia Carr. Carr claims Broa...

Out on the Cutting Edge
Unofficial private detective Matthew Scudder is hired to find a young woman who disappeared after coming to New York to pursue an acting career. Her p...

Small Town
The link to three murderous incidents, in which dozens of people are killed, is Jerry Pankow. Jerry cleans up other people's messes for a living. He l...

The Burglar in the Closet
Bernie Rhodenbarr, a gentle thief, gets himself caught up in another murder. This time, his dentist wants him to burglarize his ex-wife, but she wind...

The Burglar on the Prowl
A very intelligent known burglar (Bernie Rhodenbarr) with his lesbian best friend along as a lookout, has been asked by a friend to break into a house...

Lawrence Block novels

The Cancelled Czech
Evan Tanner, an independent spy for the USA is sent on a secrect mission to release and bring back alive, the infamous Nazi Janos Kotacek. (He has b...

Time to Murder and Create
Jacob “Spinner” Jablon, a small-time snitch and blackmailer brings Matt Scudder an envelope and a request: Open the envelope only if I should die unex...

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