Lawrence Block bibliography

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This is a list of works by Lawrence Block , an American author of mystery fiction, with a career spanning six decades.

Contents

Matthew Scudder novels

  1. The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
  2. Time to Murder and Create (1976)
  3. In the Midst of Death (1976)
  4. A Stab in the Dark (1981)
  5. Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
  6. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986)
  7. Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
  8. A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990)
  9. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991)
  10. A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
  11. The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993)
  12. A Long Line of Dead Men (1994)
  13. Even the Wicked (1997)
  14. Everybody Dies (1998)
  15. Hope to Die (2001)
  16. All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)
  17. A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
  18. The Night and the Music (2013) (A collection of Matthew Scudder short stories and novelettes, 11 in total)
  19. A Time to Scatter Stones (2019) (Novella)
  20. The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder (2023)

Bernie Rhodenbarr novels

  1. Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
  2. The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
  3. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
  4. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
  5. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
  6. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
  7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
  8. The Burglar in the Library (1997)
  9. The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
  10. The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)
  11. The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (2013)
  12. The Burglar in Short Order (2020)
  13. The Burglar who Met Fredric Brown (2022)

There are also three Bernie Rhodenbarr short stories: "Like a Thief in the Night" (Cosmopolitan, May 1983), "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (Playboy, April 1990), and "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1997). These stories are collected in the 2002 anthology Enough Rope, and in the Rhodenbarr book, The Burglar in Short Order.

Evan Tanner novels

  1. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
  2. The Canceled Czech (1966)
  3. Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
  4. The Scoreless Thai (also known as Two for Tanner; 1968)
  5. Tanner's Tiger (1968)
  6. Here Comes a Hero (also known as Tanner's Virgin; 1968)
  7. Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
  8. Tanner on Ice (1998)

Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)

  1. No Score (1970)
  2. Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
  3. Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
  4. The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
  5. "As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler–owned Mysterious Bookshop; printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season, and collected in Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop (Vanguard Press 2010, ISBN   978-1-59315-617-6)

A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains two Chip Harrison stories.

Keller novels

  1. Hit Man (1998)
  2. Hit List (2000)
  3. Hit Parade (2006)
  4. Hit and Run (2008)
  5. Hit Me (2013)
  6. Keller's Fedora (2016) (Novella)

A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains excerpts from the five Keller novels, plus the novella.

Written as Jill Emerson

Written as Paul Kavanagh

Written as Sheldon Lord

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Written as Andrew Shaw

Sexpot!, published under the pseudonym of Andrew Shaw. Cover illustration by Harold W. McCauley (1960). Sexpot! by Andrew Shaw - Illustration by Harold W. McCauley - Nightstand Books NB1531 1960.jpg
Sexpot!, published under the pseudonym of Andrew Shaw. Cover illustration by Harold W. McCauley (1960).

Written as Don Holliday

Written as Lesley Evans

Written as Lee Duncan

Written as Anne Campbell Clark

Written as Ben Christopher

In collaboration with Donald E. Westlake

Other fiction

Short Stories & Collections

Screenplay

Books for writers

Memoirs

References

  1. A Trawl Among the Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography 1958-2020, by Terry Zobeck
  2. Block, Lawrence (2015). Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC): Lawrence Block: 9781941110218: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN   978-1941110218.