{"title":"Books by Lawrence Block","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781803366999","title":"Into the Night","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE.\" - WALL STREET JOURNAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splitting them apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBegun in the last years of his life by noir master Cornell Woolrich, the haunted genius responsible for such classics as \u003ci\u003eRear Window\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bride Wore Black\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNight Has a Thousand Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePhantom Lady\u003c\/i\u003e, and completed decades later by acclaimed novelist and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block (\u003ci\u003eA Walk Among the Tombstones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEight Million Ways to Die\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eINTO THE NIGHT \u003c\/i\u003e– available here for the first time in more than 35 years – is a collaboration that extends beyond the grave, echoing the book’s own story of the living taking on and completing the unfinished work of the dead.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44203407966386,"sku":"9781803366999","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803366999_174bb1ab-ee3b-433c-ab7c-7131889a793c.jpg?v=1786026746"},{"product_id":"9780752837475","title":"A Ticket to the Boneyard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe streets of New York are never safe, but the release of James Leo Motley, a psychopath who went down swearing revenge on PI Matt Scudder, means death is out there.     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one is safe: friends, lovers, or just those unfortunate enough to share the Scudder name. Soon the streets are littered with the dying and Matt begins to question his new found sobriety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294646350197,"sku":"9780752837475","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752837475_dc7314b7-96d1-4212-b8bb-531b5eea22fa.jpg?v=1786015689"},{"product_id":"9780752826837","title":"Everybody Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA blistering Matt Scudder novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pals including Mick Ballou - an Irish American who operates more often than not on the wrong side of the law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMick is worried - a garage full of bourbon has been ripped off and two of his henchman killed in cold blood. Somebody is muscling in on Micks patch and he wants Scudder to look into it. Matt reluctantly agrees to take a look but won't promise a result. On the way home he is attacked by somebody wants him off Mick's case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe following weekend Matt's mentor from AA is shot dead at point blank range when Scudder is in the men's room of the restaurant where the 2 had met for dinner - Matt knows it should have been him. Now the case is personal and no matter that he's warned off by his ex-colleagues in the NYPD and his wife Elaine, this is one he is going to see out to the end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294675939701,"sku":"9780752826837","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752826837_cbc8674d-1dfd-4991-8e9b-82a5bfcf2892.jpg?v=1786015673"},{"product_id":"9780752837000","title":"Eight Million Ways To Die","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorruption and danger are rife in Lawrence Block's incredible Matt Scudder thriller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStaying alive is never easy; not for the prostitute who is slashed to ribbons, nor for the pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken down investigator Matt Scudder can find her killer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294679183733,"sku":"9780752837000","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752837000_4f15bf25-684e-45db-9f02-e11e25291ffd.jpg?v=1786015686"},{"product_id":"9780752827490","title":"Time To Murder And Create","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author behind the upcoming Hollywood all-star film A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - the second brilliant novel in the Matthew Scudder series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Spinner is dead, bashed on the head and left to rot in a river. There are three suspects. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Prager has paid enough for the sins of his daughter, and begs Scudder not to destroy his shaky business or the fragile girl's reformed life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeverly Etheridge cheerfully admitted all the sex acts Scudder had seen in the photos and she promises to show him a few more. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Huysendahl offers Scudder enough money to choke even a blackmailer's greed, a proposition no sane man would turn down. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScudder's code of honour demands that one of them will pay...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294679216501,"sku":"9780752827490","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752827490_531c03a9-f1b5-4fc6-93d2-83c501f1d186.jpg?v=1786015677"},{"product_id":"9780991068470","title":"Write for Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor several years he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing, and designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper. This book was written to make the seminar available to a larger audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlock self-published it in 1986, in an edition of 5000 copies, which sold out in short order. A few years later he stopped offering the seminar, having tired of the guru trip and preferring to concentrate on his own writing, and ever since the book's been impossible to obtain. When eBooks came around, Block arranged for HarperCollins to publish Write For Your Life in that format. But it's the sort of text one wants to be able to page through, and a printed book is just more user-friendly. In the fall of 2013, an assistant found the last box of 25 copies of the 1986 edition in a storage cupboard; Block offered them in a newsletter, and they sold out within three hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the original book, with a foreword bringing it up to date. With the book, as with the seminar, it doesn't matter at all where you are in your writing career, or what kind of writing you do. That's all beside the point. \u003cem\u003eWrite For Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e is about making the best out of what you are and who you are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295173357941,"sku":"9780991068470","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780991068470_63065b83-ebfd-4455-ab2c-508b89442209.jpg?v=1786016243"},{"product_id":"9780752834528","title":"The Sins Of The Fathers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs far as the NYPD is concerned, the case is closed.                                                                    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut ex-cop Matt Scudder, is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. And suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn New York's underbelly, the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297146089845,"sku":"9780752834528","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752834528_4e3ec804-4590-4700-ac18-8d9b5bce022e.jpg?v=1786015685"},{"product_id":"9780752827483","title":"A Long Line Of Dead Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Lawrence Block.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Manhattan thirty-one men have been meeting annually for years. Their private club meets only to record the passage of time and give toast to the joys of life. But suddenly they are dying at an alarming rate and one of their number begins to suspect that something more than bad luck is at work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor private eye Matt Scudder, the case is one of the most baffling he's faced. Can the deaths really be a bizarre series of suicides and violent accidents? Or is there is a pattern behind the random play of tragedy? Is there a murderer at work and can he be stopped before the victims run out?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297873244533,"sku":"9780752827483","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752827483_ef267d78-3a06-419b-ad62-a90bbeaa0265.jpg?v=1786015677"},{"product_id":"9781409153573","title":"The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited eleventh novel in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299456102773,"sku":"9781409153573","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781409153573_bba6b225-5efc-407d-9691-9b8e7cd60f65.jpg?v=1786020041"},{"product_id":"9781951939748","title":"Catch and Release","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309613298037,"sku":"9781951939748","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781951939748_ab287a54-47ad-415f-a55d-3470193817bf.jpg?v=1786030458"},{"product_id":"9780752827469","title":"A Dance At The Slaughterhouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 9th breakneck thriller in the Matt Scudder series, from a master of the genre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Matt Scudder, no one can rise above the law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when the ex-cop is privately hired to investigate the murder of a beautiful pregnant woman, he finds himself pushed to the limits of his beliefs. With every step he takes, Scudder discovers darker and more depraved secrets. Human trafficking, snuff films, murderous fetishes: the light of humanity seems all but extinguished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the seedy underworld of New York City, nothing is sacred and anything can be bought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311909548405,"sku":"9780752827469","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752827469_ae524ae1-9596-4f27-9fd2-15906ce116a1.jpg?v=1786015674"},{"product_id":"9781951939878","title":"A Stab in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Pinell, the recently apprehended \"Icepick Prowler,\" freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313221611893,"sku":"9781951939878","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781951939878_9d1e32d6-a656-4906-8127-2a127311e421.jpg?v=1786030458"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-lawrence-block.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}