Lawrence Block
1938-
Pseudonyms: Chip Harrison and Paul Kavanagh
 

Lawrence Block was born in Buffalo, New York. He was educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1960 he married Loretta Ann Kallett. They divorced in 1973. In 1983 he married Lynne Wood. He has written more than forty novels which have won him almost every major mystery award. In 2004, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger for a lifetime achievement in crime writing. He is the creator of:
1. 'Bernie Rhodenbarr', a bookstore owner and thief.
2. 'Chip Harrison', an assistent to a private eye.
3. 'Evan Tanner', a spy who can't sleep.
4. 'Keller', a hitman.
5. 'Matt Scudder', a private investigator.
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Titles and year of publication:  

'Bernie Rhodenbarr' Novels
 1) Burglars Can't Be Choosers  1977
 2) The Burglar in the Closet  1978
 3) The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Nero Wolfe Award)  1979
 4) The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza  1981
 5) The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian  1983
 6) The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams  1994
 7) The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart  1995
 8) The Burglar in the Library  1997
 9) The Burglar in the Rye  1999
10) The Burglar on the Prowl  2004
11) The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons  2013
12) The Burglar in Short Order (short stories)  2020
13) The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown  2022
'Chip Harrison' Novels
 1) No Score  1970
 2) Chip Harrison Scores Again  1971
 3) Make Out with Murder (as 'Chip Harrison') (Also published as: The Five Little Rich Girls [as by Lawrence Block 1984])  1974
 4) The Topless Tulip Caper (as 'Chip Harrison')  1975
'Evan Tanner' Novels
 1) The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep  1966
 2) The Cancelled Czech  1966
 3) Tanner's Twelve Swingers  1967
 4) Two for Tanner (Also published as: The Scoreless Thai [2000])  1967
 5) Tanner's Tiger  1968
 6) Here Comes a Hero  1968
 7) Me Tanner, You Jane  1970
 8) Tanner on Ice  1998
'Keller' Novels
 1) Hit Man  1998
 2) Hit List  2000
 3) Hit Parade  2006
 4) Hit and Run  2008
 5) Hit Me  2013
 6) Keller's Homecoming (e-story)  2016
 7) Keller's Fedora (novella)  2017
'Matt Scudder' Novels
 1) The Sins of the Fathers  1976
 2) Time to Murder and Create  1976
 3) In the Midst of Death  1976
 4) A Stab in the Dark  1978
 5) Eight Million Ways to Die (Shamus Award)  1982
 6) When the Sacred Ginmill Closes  1986
 7) Out on the Cutting Edge  1989
 8) A Ticket to the Boneyard  1990
 9) A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (Edgar Award)  1991
10) A Walk Among the Tombstones  1992
11) The Devil Knows You're Dead (Shamus Award)  1993
12) A Long Line of Dead Men  1994
13) Even the Wicked  1997
14) Everybody Dies  1998
15) Hope to Die  2001
16) All the Flowers Are Dying  2005
17) A Drop of the Hard Stuff  2011
18) The Night and The Music (short stories)  2011
19) A Time to Scatter Stones (novella)  2019
Other Novels
 1) Death Pulls a Double Cross (Also published as: Coward's Kiss [1987])  1961
 2) Mona (Also published as: Sweet Slow Death [1986]; and as: Grifter's Game [2004])  1961
 3) The Case of the Pornographic Photos (Also published as: You Could Call It Murder [1987])  1961
 4) The Girl with the Long Green Heart  1965
 5) Deadly Honeymoon  1967
 6) The Specialists  1969
 7) After the First Death  1969
 8) Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man  1974
 9) Ariel  1980
10) Code of Arms (with Harold King)  1981
11) Sometimes They Bite (short stories)  1983
12) Like a Lamb to the Slaughter (short stories)  1984
13) Random Walk  1988
14) Some Days You Get the Bear (short stories)  1993
15) The Collected Mystery Stories (short stories)  1999
16) Enough Rope (short stories)  2002
17) Cinderella Sims  2003
18) Small Town  2003
19) Lucky at Cards  2007
20) One Night Stands and Lost Weekends (short stories)  2008
21) A Diet of Treacle  2008
22) Killing Castro  2009
23) Catch and Release (short stories)  2013
24) Borderline  2014
25) The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes  2015
26) Sinner Man  2016
27) Resume Speed and Other Stories (short stories)  2018
28) Dead Girl Blues  2020
As 'Paul Kavanagh'
 1) Such Men Are Dangerous  1969
 2) The Triumph of Evil  1971
 3) Not Comin' to You  1974

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