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Lawrence Block
The Devil Knows You're DeadThe Devil Knows You're Dead
A Ticket to the BoneyardA Ticket to the Boneyard
A Dance At The SlaughterhouseA Dance At The Slaughterhouse
The Burglar Who Painted Like MondrianThe Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote KiplingThe Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling


Paperback - Orion
The Devil Knows You're Dead
Scudder is back, tracking a killer through the alleys of Hell's Kitchen and mapping the darker regions of the human soul. Glen Holtzmann sits on top of the world, watching the sun set from his penthouse.....half an hour later he's just another statistic, gunned down in a phone booth on Eleventh Avenue. When the cartridge casings of the fatal shots turn up on a well-known local Vietnam Vet, the whole of the Big Apple knows it's an open and shut case. But not Scudder - this Yuppie lawyer had skeletons in his closet and Matt can hear them rattling.
"Lawrence Block is a master.......The Matt Scudder novels are among the finest detective books penned in this century." Johnathan Kellerman
"Block is awfully good … a gift for fast and effortless storytelling" Los Angeles Times


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Paperback - Orion
A Ticket to the Boneyard
Before drinking his way off the force, ex-Big Apple cop Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put the brilliant psychopath James Leo Motley behind bars. Now, twelve years later, the hulking human monster is free - swearing revenge on Scudder and all who know him. One by one, Scudder's friends and former lovers are turning up dead … even strangers unfortunate enough to share his name. The maniac is on the move, leading Scudder in a grisly dance of death that will send the alcoholic PI either back to the bottle … or the grave.
"Cries to be read at night … First Class … Tough and sharp … It would be hard to find a better mystery." People
"Absolutely riveting … Non-stop tension and a finish that will leave you bug-eyed. Block is terrific." Washington Post


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Paperback - Orion
A Dance At The Slaughterhouse
The Police can't prove that socialite Richard Thurman arranged the rape, torture and murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. The dead woman's brother thinks Matthew Scudder can. During his ongoing battle with the bottle, ex-cop, ex-boozer Scudder left a little bit of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case will drag the tormented PI deeper into the mire than he's ever been before - launching him on a lethal and terrifying tour of New York's ‘snuff’ film, sex-for-sale underworld … where an innocent young life is a commodity to be bought, perverted and ultimately destroyed.
"A Walk Among the tombstones will surely establish ex-cop, ex-alcoholic Matt Scudder on this side of the Atlantic" Weekend Telegraph
"Shocking .. Darkly entertaining … More voltage than most." New York Times
"Scudder is one of the most appealing characters around" Los Angeles Times
"It's well-written, well plotted and very, very nasty" Washington Times


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Paperback - No Exit Press (1993)
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian
Bernie Rhodenbarr - By day he sells books in his Greenwich Village store - by night he's a master of illegal entry. But this time Bernie didn't do the burglary ... but one missing painting worth a cool quarter of a million dollars, two corpses and a very clever frame up put him on top of the most wanted list!
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian is the fifth in the series of Bernie Rhodenbarr titles.
'... one of the few appealing bad guy heroes in current detective fiction' -- Washington Star
'Deliciously amusing ... lighthearted crime at its very best' -- Robert Ludlum
' ... exciting and very funny' -- Publishers Weekly
'A series that continues to delight' -- Baltimore Evening News


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Paperback - No Exit Press (2001)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Bernie Rhodenbarr, bookseller and thief, can't resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire's high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sum enough he liberates the object in question ... but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for murder!
'Bernie is incorrigibly adorable' New York Times Book Review


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