Lawrence Block This collection by Lawrence Block spans hardboiled detective fiction, noir mysteries, crime thrillers, comic capers, literary suspense, and psychological crime stories. Block blends sharp dialogue, morally complex characters, dark humor, and atmospheric urban settings with murder investigations, burglaries, assassinations, espionage, addiction, and existential themes. His novels frequently feature private investigators, professional killers, thieves, drifters, con artists, and reluctant antiheroes navigating corruption, violence, loneliness, and the criminal underworld. The collection also includes pulp-inspired crime fiction, short-story compilations, writing guides, and literary explorations of obsession, desire, and human weakness. Across the interconnected series and standalone works, recurring themes include guilt, redemption, morality, greed, addiction, deception, survival, and personal identity. The books move between gritty New York noir, humorous burglary capers, philosophical crime fiction, psychological suspense, and reflective literary storytelling while maintaining intelligent prose, understated wit, and intricate plotting. Block’s work is heavily influenced by classic noir and pulp traditions, combining emotional realism, urban melancholy, sardonic humor, and tightly constructed mysteries with deeply human character studies and atmospheric tension. CONTENT: Akashic Noir Series 1. Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics Bernie Rhodenbarr Series 2. Burglars Can't Be Choosers 3. The Burglar in the Closet 4. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling 5. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza 6. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian 7. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams 8. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart 9. The Burglar in the Library 10. The Burglar in the Rye 11. The Burglar on the Prowl 12. The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons 13. The Burglar in Short Order 14. The Burglar Who Dropped In on Elvis 15. The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown Chip Harrison Series 16. No Score 17. Chip Harrison Scores Again 18. Make Out with Murder 19. The Topless Tulip Caper Classic Crime Library Series 20. After the First Death 21. Deadly Honeymoon 22. Such Men Are Dangerous 23. Not Comin' Home to You 24. Lucky at Cards 25. Coward's Kiss 26. Passport to Peril 27. Killing Castro 28. Borderline Ehrengraf for the Defense Series 29. Defender of the Innocent Evan Tanner Series 30. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep 31. The Canceled Czech 32. Tanner's Twelve Swingers 33. Two for Tanner (aka The Scoreless Thai) 34. Tanner's Tiger 35. Tanner's Virgin (aka Here Comes a Hero) 36. Me Tanner, You Jane 37. Tanner on Ice Hard Case Crime Series 38. 69 Barrow Street Keller Series 39. Hit Man 40. Hit List 41. Hit Parade 42. Hit and Run 43. Hit Me 44. Keller's Fedora Matthew Scudder Series 45. The Sins of the Fathers 46. Time to Murder and Create 47. In the Midst of Death 48. A Stab in the Dark 49. Eight Million Ways to Die 50. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes 51. Out on the Cutting Edge 52. A Ticket to the Boneyard 53. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse 54. A Walk Among the Tombstones 55. The Devil Knows You're Dead 56. A Long Line of Dead Men 57. Even the Wicked 58. Everybody Dies 59. Hope to Die 60. All the Flowers Are Dying 61. A Drop of the Hard Stuff 62. The Night and the Music Matthew Scudder Stories Series 63. A Time to Scatter Stones Parker Series 64. Comeback Non-Series 65. A Writer Prepares 66. Alive in Shape and Color 67. At Home in the Dark 68. Campus Tramp 69. Candy 70. Dead Girl Blues 71. Enough Rope 72. Enough of Sorrow 73. From Sea to Stormy Sea 74. How Far: A One-Act Stage Play 75. Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails 76. In for a Penny 77. Into the Night 78. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends 79. Resume Speed and Other Stories 80. Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man 81. Sinner Man 82. Small Town 83. Speaking of Greed 84. Spider, Spin Me a Web 85. Telling Lies for Fun and Profit 86. The Crime of Our Lives 87. The Darkling Halls of Ivy 88. The Getaway Car 89. The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes 90. The Liar's Bible: A Handbook for Fiction Writers 91. The Liar's Companion: A Field Guide for Fiction Writers 92. Warm and Willing 93. Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print 94. Getting Off 95. 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