BOOKS by Lawrence Block

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1	Hit Man more books like this by Lawrence Block A gripping insight into the life of a paid assassin from the author of the Matt Scudder mysteries The hit man of the title, Keller, tells his story episodically job by job. His tasks come as and when and with little warning. The call comes, he visits his paymaster to collect instructions, he travels to the hit's home city, does the job, returns. ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Hit List more books like this by Lawrence Block Superficially, John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office manager, the breezily efficient Dot, who organises his 'jobs' and who reassures his grumbling conscience. He is an obsessive stamp collector. In a blackly comic twist, he even gets called for jury service. Laid back, ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Hit Parade more books like this by Lawrence Block Fascinating professional killer John Keller returns after a five-year hiatus in this third novel, a fierce and poignant tale by a bestselling author and master of the modern mystery. Sheer pleasure.--"Seattle Times." see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Hit and Run more books like this by Lawrence Block Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life in this stunning new work from the "New York Times"-bestselling master of mystery. see all copies from £6.27! new only from £14.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza more books like this by Lawrence Block The journal "Model Shipwright" features a mixture of articles, reviews, news and comment from model makers from around the world, as well as authentic plans, clear diagrams and photographs. Aspects of the hobby covered include dioramas, modelling techniques and tools. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Burglar on the Prowl more books like this by Lawrence Block The tenth volume in the BURGLAR series finds Bernie Rhodenbarr, bookseller and burglar, agreeing to rob an unscrupulous plastic surgeon as a favor to a friend. But before the planned Bronx burglary can come off, an antsy Bernie decides on an unscheduled Manhattan break-in. Once inside the apartment, he is an unwitting witness to a shocking crime, ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Time to Murder and Create more books like this by Lawrence Block Small-time stoolie, Jake" The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money -- and more people eager to see him dead. So no one is surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in. And what's worse, no one ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Burglars can't be choosers more books like this by Lawrence Block Burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr prefers to work alone--the risks are lower and the company is better. Offered $5,000 for a simple job, Bernie breaks into an apartment but discovers that the box he came for is missing and there is a dead body on the floor. Accused of murder, Bernie holes up in a friend's apartment where, with the help of a very lovely ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £5.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Plot Thickens more books like this by Carol Higgins Clark, Edna Buchanan, Lawrence Block Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak. The result is a collection of wonderfully ... see all copies from £2.12! new only from £6.49! \| first editions
10	Walk Among the Tombstones more books like this by Lawrence Block Big time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man.Then one fine Spring morning his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded.Kenan pays and his wife is duly returned to him-in small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car.Leaving PI Matt Scudder to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper.Soon Scudder is on the trail of a ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Everybody Dies more books like this by Lawrence Block At the start of his fourteenth adventure, Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. He's sober, he's married, and the state just gave him a private investigator's license. He's growing older, and he's even getting respectable. Then he signs up to help his closest and most unlikely friend, the larger-than-life Hell's Kitchen hoodlum ... see all copies from £2.61! new only from £4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	When the Sacred Ginmill Closes more books like this by Lawrence Block In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Long Line of Dead Men more books like this by Lawrence Block In Manhattan, 30 men have been meeting once a year for years, their only purpose to record the passing of time. But then these men start to die at an alarming rate, and it's clear that someone is determined to kill them all. Scudder takes on the case, unprepared for its emotional repercussions. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Hope to Die more books like this by Lawrence Block (Read by) Lawrence Block, Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, is on dazzling form in his most compelling Matt Scudder novel to date. Byrne and Susan Hollander stroll home from a concert on a fine summer's evening in New York. Some hours later, their daughter Kristin arrives home to discover her parents brutally killed and the house ransacked. ... see all copies from £1.76! new only from £6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Sins of the Fathers more books like this by Lawrence Block A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell and as far as the NYPD is concerned the case is closed. Matt Scudder, an ex-cop who now does "favours for friends', is persuaded to lookinto the case by the dead girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Dance at the slaughterhouse more books like this by Lawrence Block A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home -- and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted p.i. must descend into the depths of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where young lives are commodities to be bought, perverted...and destroyed. see all copies from £1.66! new only from £3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Eight Million Ways to Die more books like this by Lawrence Block Staying alive is never easy; not for the prostitute who is slashed to robbons, nor for the pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken down Scudder can find her killer. see all copies from £1.57! new only from £6.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Burglar in the Rye more books like this by Lawrence Block The ninth book in Lawrence Block's award-winning Burglar series finds the lovable, roguish Bernie Rhodenbarr entangled in a murder mystery connected to the secret love affair between a beautiful young woman and a reclusive, aging writer. When Bernie stumbles upon the body of literary agent Anthea Landau--the caretaker of the couple's love letters- ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Burglar in the Closet more books like this by Lawrence Block Dr. Sheldrake, Bernie's dentist, needs a burglar to take back some diamonds from his soon-to-be ex, Crystal Sheldrake. Prowling around lovely Crystal's apartment for the jewels, Bernie hears a key in the lock and slips into a closet where he crouches long enough to agonize over the friendly sounds coming from Crystal's boudoir. When the noises ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Small Town more books like this by Lawrence Block In the wake of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center, life in New York is far from back to normal. A serial killer who lost his family in the attacks stalks the town for revenge, a failing novelist gets a massive career boost when he is tapped as a murder suspect, an art dealer taps into the darkest part of her sexuality--these ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	In the Midst of Death more books like this by Lawrence Block This time hard-drinking ex-cop Matt Scudder is roped in to an NYPD internal investigation that has ended up with one detective in the slammer on a murdre rap. Jerry is as clean as the world would like him to be although Matt isn't too sure, after all, he was only keen to dish the dirt on his former colleagues as a way of saving his own skin when ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams more books like this by Lawrence Block It's tough making an honest living selling used books. When his rent goes up, a reformed burglar, now a bookseller, reverts to his old ways. On his first job back, he finds a dead body and a pile of cash. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	All the Flowers Are Dying more books like this by Lawrence Block After a hiatus of more than three years, Mystery Grandmaster Lawrence Block returns to his series about Matt Scudder, a former cop with a difficult, painful past who became a private investigator. In this 16th installment, a woman whom Scudder met at an AA meeting asks him to investigate a dubious-seeming guy she met over the Internet. As Scudder ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Devil Knows You're Dead more books like this by Lawrence Block When Yuppie lawyer Glenn Holtzmann sits in his penthouse gazing at the setting sun, he little imagines that within half an hour he will be dead. Everyone believes it to be a clear-cut case, but Scudder isn't convinced that the evidence or the victim are what they seem. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian more books like this by Lawrence Block After appraising the worth of a rich man's library--and leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process--used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr becomes the prime suspect when his client is murdered. see all copies from £4.93! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions

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