Downing a bourbon or two with a couple of cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrisey brothers who run the joint are strangely submissive during the raid, but eager to see Scudder track down the thieves without involving the regular forces of law and order.

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 he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job after all - and Scudder's been paid to find a killer - by the victim...in advance.

"Right up there with Mr. Block's best....A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF keeps us guessing."--Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's world may lead him right back to the bar stool.
In a novel widely celebrated by critics and readers, Lawrence Block circle back to how it all began, reestablishing the Matthew Scudder series as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction.

其實，依麗莎白只要走到對街去，就可以跟拋棄她的情人說再見。但她卻轉過身，決定從最遙遠的地方回來告別。她吃完最後一塊藍莓派，離開每天陪她度過傷心夜晚的餐廳老闆，開始一路向西的旅程。
在旅途中，她遇到彼此相愛卻互相折磨的夫妻，男人每天戒酒，第二天又照樣在酒吧出現；遇到一個女賭徒，她不再信任她的父親，卻不斷往他所在的城市走去。依麗莎白在他們身上，看到想要從失戀痛苦中走出來的自己。終於，旅程到了最西邊的海岸，而依麗莎白……
這是一個關於愛與距離的故事。只有經過遙遠的想念，愛情的真相才會浮現。

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in the city of New York. Except a young prostitute named Kim—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 in a seedy hotel room. Now, finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town—some quick and brutal . . . and some agonizingly slow. With this book, which won the Shamus Award and was short-listed for the Edgar, Lawrence Block elevated the Matthew Scudder series to the top tier of American detective fiction. This special hardcover edition features an afterword by the author. Read Eight Million Ways to Die , the novel that proves Block to be one of the best mystery writers working today.

A Trawl Among the Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography, 1958-2020 will delight Lawrence Block’s many fans and collectors with its exhaustive and authoritative detailing of his work, much of which will be new to even the most ardent of collectors. And it includes a delightful afterword by Lawrence Block in which he recounts a long-lost and forgotten erotic novel which led to its discovery and documentation in the Bibliography.Block is one of crime fiction’s most popular and honored authors. He’s won nearly every conceivable award the mystery field has to offer. A Trawl Among the Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography, 1958-2020 documents the many novels and short stories that have earned him this acclaim, and all of the other publications—memoir, books-for-writers, essays, erotic novels and sexual advice books, nonfiction, and magazine columns—he’s written in a career spanning more than 60 years. More than 800 titles in all.A Trawl Among the Shelves is the most comprehensive and authoritative documentation of Block’s writing ever due to his full cooperation with its compilation. He provided essential assistance in identifying long forgotten books, articles and essays. Block is well-known for writing under many pen-names. A Trawl Among the Shelves identifies nearly a dozen previously undocumented pseudonyms used by him early in his career.Readers will find the definitive listing of Block’s erotic paperback novels from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Fans have long sought to sort fact from rumor about the authorship of these highly collectible titles. Block reviewed his files and memory and confirmed his authorship of a dozen Andrew Shaw titles he had long been suspected of having written and rejected a few others. In addition, he recollected several books, articles, essays and columns no one ever suspected existed.A Trawl Among the Shelves is sure to become the standard bibliographic reference for Lawrence Block’s publications and an indispensable guide for fans, collectors and scholars interested in genre literature.

You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block's new novel is not for everyone. It's recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman.
And rapes and murders her.
But, um, not in that order.
Right. But it's what he does with the rest of his life that's really interesting...
Lawrence Block has been writing and publishing crime fiction for sixty years. He's received recognition for lifetime achievement in the US and the UK. His books have won awards and occasionally show up on bestseller lists. Several of them have been fimed.
Here's what he's said about DEAD GIRL BLUES:
"I don't think it's terribly commercial. And there are elements that will put off a lot of readers.
"But, see, Dead Girl Blues doesn't owe me a thing. I hadn't planned to write it, so it doesn't have to bring in money to justify the time I spent on it. The book is its own justification. I'll publish it myself, on my 82nd birthday, and all of y'all can buy it or not buy it, read it or not read it, and like it or not like it.
"I've shown it to some friends whose opinions I trust, and they told me that Dead Girl Blues is one of the very best things I've ever written. And then they added that they could see where it might have problems.
"So I read it again last week, and I realized DGB was exactly the book I wanted it to be. And how often does that happen? And what more could an old man possibly ask for?"

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?

喧嚣而孤独的纽约城，落寞的酒鬼侦探。
一位美丽女人之死，一连串无人关心的谋杀。
一场彻底的酩酊大醉，一段单枪匹马的自我救赎。
这座赤裸都市有八百万人，八百万个故事，八百万种死法。
这座赤裸都市，人们孤独成瘾，独自沉沦，然后在不知什么时候，死于八百万种死法之一，迅速被替代，被遗忘。
幸好，总还有一个人在意我们的一切。
“我叫马特，我无话可说。”

馬修，你知道這城裡有什麼玩意兒嗎？
這個他媽的都市叢林臭爛汙裡有什麼，你可知道？有八百萬種死法。
紐約，有八百萬個故事，有八百萬種死法。
我名叫馬修，是個酒鬼。有個我認識的女人昨晚被殺。她雇我保護她的安全，我拍胸向她保證沒問題。殺她的凶手誑了我，而我相信他，結果她死了，現在我做什麼都於事無補。這個念頭不斷的在啃我、囓我，叫我坐立難安，而每繞過一個街角就是一間酒吧，每走過一個路口就是一家酒鋪。喝酒不能讓她起死回生，但不喝酒也是一樣。他媽的我為什麼得活得這麼辛苦？為什麼？
二十五年前的初夏，勞倫斯．卜洛克的《八百萬種死法》出版。當年，它與歐美推理界最高榮譽的愛倫坡獎擦身而過，只提名沒獲獎；專門評選以私家偵探為小說主角的夏姆斯獎，則將年度最佳小說的榮譽頒給了這本書。
相隔十一年，美國推理作家協會頒予勞倫斯．卜洛克「大師獎」──簡言之，這正是推理界的名人堂，代表無上的榮耀，勞倫斯．卜洛克將與阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂、艾勒里．昆恩、約翰．狄克森．卡爾、喬治．西默農、亞佛烈德．希區考克、格雷安．葛林等前輩垂名青史。
大師級的作家，最傑出、最重要的一部代表作，精裝紀念版隆重上市，等待您細細品嘗。

Lawrence Block's novels win awards, grace bestseller lists, and get made into films. His short fiction is every bit as outstanding, and this complete collection of his short stories establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of this contemporary Grand Master.
Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and the disarming duo of Chip Harrison and Leo Haig. Here, too, are Keller, the wistful hit man, and the natty attorney Martin Ehrengraf, who takes criminal cases on a contingency basis and whose clients always turn out to be innocent.
Keeping them company are dozens of other refugees from Block's dazzling imagination -- all caught up in more ingenious plots than you can shake a blunt instrument at.
Half a dozen of Block's stories have been shortlisted for the Edgar Award, and three have won it outright. Other stories have been read aloud on BBC Radio, dramatized on American and British television, and adapted for the stage and screen. All the tales in Block's three previous collections are here, along with two dozen new stories. Some will keep you on the edge of the chair. Others will make you roll on the floor laughing. And more than a few of them will give you something to think about. Enough Rope is an essential volume for Lawrence Block fans, and a dazzling introduction for others to the wonderful world of ... Block magic!</P>

BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND GRAND MASTER LAWRENCE BLOCK RETURNS TO HIS DEADLIEST HITMAN
A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living.
But when the nation's economy tanks, taking the construction business with it, all it takes is one phone call to drag him back into the game. It may say Nicholas Edwards on his driver's license and credit cards, but he's back to being the man he always was: Keller.
Keller's work takes him to New York, the former home he hasn't dared revisit, where his target is the abbot of a midtown monastery. Another call puts him on a West Indies cruise, with several interesting fellow passengers-the government witness, the incandescent young woman keeping the witness company, and, sharing Keller's cabin, his wife, Julia. But the high drama comes in Cheyenne, where a recent widow is looking to sell her husband's stamp collection...
In HIT ME, legendary Edgar Grandmaster and New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns to one of his most beloved characters. Welcome back, Keller. You've been missed.

It's hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr's all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie's been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he's in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he's still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.Bernie's got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he'll be facing a rap for a murder he didn't commit -- and for a burglary he certainly attempted -- unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging.

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 lost, he's finding love—and death—in the worst possible places.

A collection of witty, irreverent essays on subjects running the gamut from the space program to airport bans on smoking are included in this anthology. Written by Spider Robinson, The Crazy Years takes its name from Robert A. Heinlein's designation of the last years of the 20th century and contains essays from Robinson's tenure as op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail and from Galaxy Online . Environmentalists that place the survival of earth before the survival of humanity, the idiocy of computer designs, and the downsides of the Internet are among the subjects Robinson uses to take the world to task.