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(0)Lawrence Block
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"You may rape the bride..."
David and Jill Wade wanted a properly traditional start to their marriage. For openers, they decided to delay its consummation until after the ceremony. They planned a perfect honeymoon at a secluded lakeside resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains.
Joe Carroll, the guest in the cabin next door, seemed friendly enough. They took his dinner suggestion, then returned to their cabin and prepared to retire-until a noise...
2) Hit parade
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 3
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Contains ten loosely linked vignettes which follow the adventures of paid assassin John Keller as he targets a philandering baseball player, a jockey, a dog, a Cuban exile, and others, while adding to his extensive stamp collection and pondering retirement.
3) Hit list
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect stranger. Keller is a pro and very good at what he does. But the jobs have started to go wrong. The realization is slow coming yet, when it arrives, it is irrefutable: Someone out there is trying to hit...
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR...
...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it.
And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky...
...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it.
And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky...
5) Hit and run
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A hit man accused of assassinating the governor of Ohio must clear his name and outwit the real killer who's out to gun him down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
That's the product description for Blackstone Audio's excellent rendition of You Could Call It Murder, expertly voiced by Peter Berkrot, and we could leave it at that-but there's an interesting backstory to the book, and the Classic Crime Library seems a good place to share it with you.
In 1961, Lawrence Block was living in New York and earning a living writing Midcentury Erotica and crime fiction. He'd just sold his first book under his own name,...
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
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 cares -- except Matthew Scudder. The ex-cop-turned-private-eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But...
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams.
Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best-and now the ex-cop-turned-P.I. is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the...
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-P.I. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle... and then to the boneyard.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Master Returns-With Never-Before-Collected Tales of Murder and Desire
One of the most highly acclaimed novelists in the crime genre, Lawrence Block is also a master of the short story, with award-winning work ranging from the macabre to the slyly comic, from heart-stopping tales of revenge to memorable explorations of lust and greed, all told in Block's unforgettable style. The sixteen stories (and one stage play!) collected here feature appearances...
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious D.A. about police corruption. Now he's accused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn't think Broadfield's a killer, but the cops aren't about to help the unlicensed P.I. prove it -- and they may do a lot worse than just get in his way.
14) Hit man
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 1
Publisher
W. Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn't work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A deranged derelict, a crazed Vietnam vet, has been arrested for gunning down successful young lawyer Glenn Holtzmann at a corner phone booth on Eleventh Avenue -- and the suspect's brother wants P.I. Matthew Scudder to prove the madman innocent. But Scudder's curiosity and dedication are leading him to dark, unexplored places in his own heart...and to passions and secrets that could destroy everything be loves.
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 5
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
With a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game, taking him from Dallas to settle a domestic dispute to New York, where people might remember him.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck—nine years since eight helpless young women were brutally slaughtered by an icepick-wielding maniac. The trail grew cold, and the book was unofficially closed on a serial killer who stopped killing. But now the "Icepick Prowler" has confessed—but only to seven of the killings. Not only does he deny the eighth but he also has an airtight alibi.
Barbara Ettinger's family had
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder—ex-cop and ex-boozer—has known death in all its guises, which is why he has been asked to investigate a baffling thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also-and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned P.I. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal...
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In this sixteenth book-length adventure, Matthew Scudder, Block's acclaimed unlicensed private investigator, pursues his most personal case to date. Scudder has just agreed to investigate the ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly close to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final targets may be Matt and Elaine
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