Month: June 2026

Lawrence Block – Shadows (retail) (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Shadows (retail) (epub)
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Title: Shadows
Author: Lawrence Block
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Lawrence Block
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: N/A

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Shadows, which was not only the debut of Jill Emerson but my own very first novel, is the story of a young woman, Jan Marlowe, who comes to New York fresh out of college, takes an apartment in the Bohemian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, and seeks to find herself-and specifically to come to terms with the puzzling question of sexual identity.
Well then…
One morning in the spring of 1958 I woke up in my room at the Hotel Alexandria with a paralyzing hangover (which was not unusual) and an idea for a book (which was). I sat in front of my typewriter, and within a few hours I had produced a chapter-by-chapter outline of a novel. I had all the characters sketched out and knew how they’d relate to one another, and how the rather elementary storyline would resolve itself. I even had a title: Shadows.
At the time I was working as an editor at a shady literary agency, but I’d already arranged for my departure, as come fall I’d be resuming college in Ohio….

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Lawrence Block – Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man (epub)
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Title: Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man
Author: Lawrence Block
Language: English
Year: 2018
Subjects: erotic, mystery, hard-boiled, adult
Publisher: Open Road
ISBN: 9781639365517
Total pages: 400 str.

Description:

From Publishers Weekly
Master mystery writer Block has dabbled in his time in many genres, and early in his career, back in 1971, he published a handful of paperback erotic novels under a pseudonym; this is one of them. He wanted, he says, to have fun with an epistolary novel, and this is written entirely in the form of letters by a fired magazine editor, Larry Clarke, to his former wife, his previous employers, his previous wife’s lover and so on. Block’s knack of keeping things moving was prodigious even then, and the novel is a rapid and often amusing read, in which Larry Clarke takes sharp potshots at all and sundry, to often delicious effect. The erotic part is less successful, however; Larry (Clarke or Block) was under the impression, common to pornographers, that women crave anal penetration, which makes some of the sex scenes rather distasteful and far from aphrodisiac in effect. It’s an interesting glimpse, nonetheless, of the early skills of one of our great noir stylists. (Feb.)
Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Review
“Block is one of the best!” -The Washington Post

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Lawrence Block – Grifter’s Game (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Grifter’s Game (epub)
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Title: Grifter’s Game
Author: Lawrence Block
Language: English
Year: 2010
Subjects: hard-boiled, mystery, thriller
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
ISBN: ISBN9781453208342
Total pages: 400 str.

Description:

A conman hiding out in Atlantic City lays his life on the line for a shot at a $250,000 payoff Mona has a millionaire husband, a million-dollar figure, and hair that’s blonde to the roots. She’s just what Leonard K. Blake is looking for. Of course, that’s not his real name. Nor is it David Gavilan-that’s the one he used in Philly, before he skipped out on a $600 hotel bill and jumped a train to Atlantic City. He doesn’t have a name or a profession, but he’s got a knack for storytelling and knows just what Mona needs to hear. He also has a pair of stolen suitcases that he grabbed at the train station. They happen to contain a brick of pure heroin-enough to make him dead or make him rich-and they happen to belong to Mona’s husband. As if a good-looking blonde wasn’t trouble enough. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.

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Lawrence Block – Gigolo Johnny Wells as Andrew Shaw (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Gigolo Johnny Wells as Andrew Shaw (epub)
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Title: Gigolo Johnny Wells
Author: Lawrence Block
Language: English
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fiction, African American Fiction, Literature
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 9780805069488
Total pages: 192 str.

Description:

17-year-old Johnny Wells was a very handsome young man, and you’d have called him a babe magnet, but I’m afraid they didn’t have that phrase back in 1961. He decided to capitalize on his looks and the response they earned from women, invested in a haircut and a good wardrobe, moved out of his slum apartment and into a budget hotel, and reinvented himself as a gigolo. The life transformed him. He took up reading, became devoted to it, and educated himself. His new contacts provided him with polish and sophistication. He moved to a good hotel, put money in the bank. And then an out-of-the-blue bout of impotence left him unfit for his profession. Next up, true love-and another transformation. Before you know it he’s an advertising copywriter, a rising star on Madison Avenue. A family man. But fate’s not done dealing, and the next card he draws is down and dirty… Gigolo Johnny Wells was published by Nightstand Books in 1961, and elicited a surprising response from whoever was serving as editor at the time. (Harlan Ellison, I’ve been told, but maybe not. And, really, who cares?) Whoever it was, he loved the book and asked for more. I must have written one, but efforts to find it have failed. And, really, who cares? A note on the name: Several years later, I needed a pen name for a work described as a cross-cultural survey of comparative sex techniques. I’d by then long since forgotten having used the name Johnny Wells in this book (which Nightstand had titled "Lover") and the name I stuck on Eros & Capricorn was John Warren Wells, a name I was to go on using on almost two dozen books of sexually-oriented nonfiction. Let me assure you that Johnny Wells and John Warren Wells are not related.

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Lawrence Block – Enough of Sorrow as Jill Emerson (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Enough of Sorrow as Jill Emerson (epub)
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Title: Enough of Sorrow
Author: Lawrence Block
Language: English
Year: 2018
Subjects: ebook, book
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 9781782273004
Total pages: 160 str.

Description:

Here’s what someone wrote as the book description for an earlier edition of ENOUGH OF SORROW:
"From master storyteller Lawrence Block comes one girl’s journey toward self-discovery and sexual freedom….Karen Winslow is starting over. But she’s not sure how to move forward when her deepest secret haunts her and keeps her from enjoying her carefree youth. She’s a sweet but troubled young thing, and not until she meets Rae, a confident young lesbian, does she realize what she’s been missing. Meanwhile, she’s also intrigued by a man and can’t help but wonder if a normal life will put an end her sorrows for good."
ENOUGH OF SORROW, I could add, is the third of mynovels as Jill Emerson, who seems to me to be rather more than a pen name. An aspect of self, perhaps. A distinct persona, if you will. My first novel, SHADOWS, originally bore a different pen name, but it’s very much of a piece with Jill’s work, and I don’t think it’s coincidental that I chose that theme and that persona for the first book I ever wrote, any more than I deem it coincidence that, when I split with my agent and had no place to sell my work, my first step toward recovery was an over-the-transom submission of WARM AND WILLING-another lesbian novel.
I’ve written about that new beginning in the book description for WARM AND WILLING. After I turned it in, the editor at Midwood made it clear he’d like to publish more of Jill’s work. (As far as he ever knew, the author was indeed a woman named Jill Emerson. I saw no reason to disabuse him of the notion, and in fact the game was half the fun.) And, thank God, it was a more innocent age, or at least a less cumbersome one. He sent me checks payable to Jill Emerson and I endorsed them in that name and cashed them through my bank account. It wouldn’t be that simple nowadays.
I don’t know what I’d called WARM AND WILLING, but the title I slapped on the second book was ENOUGH OF SORROW, from the poem by Mary Carolyn Davies:
I Sing of sorrow
I sing of weeping
I have no sorrow
I only borrow
From some tomorrow
Where it lies sleeping
Enough of sorrow
To sing of weeping.
A fine poet, Mary Carolyn Davies. Bernie Rhodenbarr’s reading one of her verses in one of the books-I disremember which book, but the verse was "Smith, of the Third Oregon, Dies."
I guess they liked Jill at Midwood. Their paperback sports an award sticker on the cover, proclaiming it the winer of some nonexistent contest. And, mirabile dictu, that didn’t feel the need to change my title. I wonder why Jill never wrote more for them?
Ah well. Let’s be grateful for what we have. And note that this ebook edition of ENOUGH OF SORROW includes as a bonus the opening chapter of Jill’s fourth novel, THIRTY.

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Lawrence Block – Deadly Honeymoon (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Deadly Honeymoon (epub)
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Title: Deadly Honeymoon
Author: Block, Lawrence
Language: English
Year: 2010
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 9781639365517
Total pages: 400 str.

Description:

Raped on her wedding night, a bride must take her own vengeance Dave and Jill Wade come to Pennsylvania, the ink still wet on their marriage license, expecting three weeks of lakeside honeymooning bliss. All is lovely until gunshots shatter their first night together. Killers have come for the man in the next cabin, and afterward they decide to silence the happy couple, battering Dave and dragging his virgin bride into the dead man’s bedroom. The Wades say nothing to the police, but afterward take a second set of vows: death for the men who ruined their honeymoon. They set out for New York, ready to take on the city’s mobsters as they consecrate their marriage in blood.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.

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Lawrence Block – Coward’s Kiss (epub)

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Name: Lawrence Block – Coward’s Kiss (epub)
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Title: Coward’s Kiss
Author: Lawrence Block
Language: English
Year: 2010
Subjects: Fiction, General, Large Type Books, Mystery & Detective, Hard-Boiled, Private Investigators, New York (N.Y.)
Publisher: Gale Group
ISBN: 9781597221467
Total pages: N/A

Description:

A New York Times Bestselling Author New York City private investigator Ed London has a problem – or rather, the problem is his brother-in-law’s. Jack Enright’s mistress, a woman with secrets of her own, has been shot to death in the apartment that he pays for. But when the body, moved by London to Central Park, is finally identified, London knows he must act quickly to find her killer – before the killer and the police find him.

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