Lawrence Block
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Well past retirement age and feeling his years--but still staying sober one day at a time--Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get help...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent--no matter how guilty they may seem.
25) Sinner man
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Presents an inside look at fiction writing as a craft and as a career, drawn from four years worth of columns featured in "Writer's Digest," and covering topics such as market analysis, plots and outlines, writing classes, handling rejection, collaborating, and writer's block.
Author
Series
Evan Tanner novels volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2007], ©1998
Language
English
Description
The newest novel in the long out-of-print Evan Tanner series finds the former thief and secret agent returning to the world after being on ice for 25 years. Tanner is about to embark on a new covert assignment that will take him to the exotic Far East, where mystery and menace are a way of life.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Sound Lirary/BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
As private investigator Matthew Scudder contemplates retirement, he takes on a case for a friend who wants a background check on his daughter's suitor and finds himself menaced by a killer from the past.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 10
Publisher
HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A down-on-his luck American airman...a beautiful international adventuress...a mysterious Chinese courier...a scrap of paper worth many lives and the peace of the entire world...and a jigsaw pattern of treachery and sudden death that had been expertly designed to deceive and destroy. Enter the inimitable Mr. Moto, the only one who could hope to decipher and defuse the situation. Casey Lee, the airman, would never forget this extraordinary figure...
35) Butcher's moon
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 16
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Stark's antihero Parker attempts to retrieve money he had to leave in an amusement park, but the money is gone. He enlists Alan Grofield to assist, but when Grofield is taken hostage, Parker assembles a private army to get him back and rob the mob blind at the same time.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder's help, but suddenly she wasn't dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker's past are dirtier than her living, and searching for a killer in a city...
37) Dying is easy
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Syd 'Sh*t-Talk' Homes, a disgraced ex-cop turned bitter stand-up comics turned...possible felon? When someone asks Syd how much it would cost to have Carl Dixon killed, Syd isn't surprised in the slightest. Dixon is on the verge of comedy superstardom and he got there the dirty way: by stealing jokes. He's got a killer act, an ugly past, and more enemies than punchlines. But once Syd's accuse of Dixon's murder, he's on the run and it's going...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Collection of published and unpublished gems: a memoir about learning to write, an imaginary interview between Westlake's various identities, essays on writing, introductions, and letters to writers like Stephen King and Brian Garfield. A true miscellany, this includes a piece by Abigail Westlake, a recipe for "May's Famous Tuna Casserole" and a 'Midnight snack'."--From the publisher.