Lawrence Block bibliography


This is a list of works by Lawrence Block, an American author of mystery fiction, with a career spanning six decades.

[Matthew Scudder] novels

  1. The Sins of the Fathers
  2. Time to Murder and Create
  3. In the Midst of Death
  4. A Stab in the Dark
  5. Eight Million Ways to Die
  6. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
  7. Out on the Cutting Edge
  8. A Ticket to the Boneyard
  9. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
  10. A Walk Among the Tombstones
  11. The Devil Knows You're Dead
  12. A Long Line of Dead Men
  13. Even the Wicked
  14. Everybody Dies
  15. Hope to Die
  16. All the Flowers Are Dying
  17. A Drop of the Hard Stuff
  18. The Night and the Music
  19. A Time to Scatter Stones
  20. ''The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder''

[Bernie Rhodenbarr] novels

  1. Burglars Can't Be Choosers
  2. The Burglar in the Closet
  3. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
  4. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
  5. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian
  6. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
  7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
  8. The Burglar in the Library
  9. The Burglar in the Rye
  10. The Burglar on the Prowl
  11. The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
  12. The Burglar in Short Order
  13. The Burglar who Met Fredric Brown
There are also three Bernie Rhodenbarr short stories: "Like a Thief in the Night", "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis", and "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke". These stories are collected in the 2002 anthology Enough Rope, and in the Rhodenbarr book, The Burglar in Short Order.

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  1. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
  2. The Canceled Czech
  3. Tanner's Twelve Swingers
  4. The Scoreless Thai
  5. Tanner's Tiger
  6. Here Comes a Hero
  7. Me Tanner, You Jane
  8. ''Tanner on Ice''

Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)

  1. No Score
  2. Chip Harrison Scores Again
  3. Make Out With Murder
  4. The Topless Tulip Caper
  5. "As Dark As Christmas Gets", a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler–owned Mysterious Bookshop; printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season, and collected in Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope, contains two Chip Harrison stories.

Keller novels

  1. Hit Man
  2. Hit List
  3. Hit Parade
  4. Hit and Run
  5. Hit Me
  6. Keller's Fedora
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope, contains excerpts from the five Keller novels, plus the novella.

Written as Jill Emerson

  • Warm and Willing
  • Enough of Sorrow
  • Thirty
  • Threesome
  • A Madwoman's Diary
  • The Trouble with Eden
  • A Week as Andrea Benstock
  • Getting Off
  • ''Shadows''

Written as Paul Kavanagh

  • Such Men Are Dangerous
  • The Triumph of Evil
  • ''Not Comin' Home to You''

Written as Sheldon Lord

  • Carla
  • Born to Be Bad
  • 69 Barrow Street
  • A Strange Kind of Love
  • Of Shame and Joy: An Original Novel
  • A Woman Must Love
  • Kept Midwood 035
  • Candy
  • 21 Gay Street: An Original Novel
  • April North
  • Pads are for Passion
  • Community of Women
  • The Sex Shuffle
  • ''Savage Lover''

Written as Andrew Shaw

  • Campus Tramp
  • The Adulterers
  • High School Sex Club
  • College for Sinners Sexpot!
  • The Twisted Ones
  • $20 Lust
  • Gutter Girl
  • Lover
  • Sin Devil
  • ''Four Lives at the Crossroads''

Written as Don Holliday

  • Circle of Sinners - in collaboration with Hal Dresner
  • ''Border Lust''

Written as Lesley Evans

  • ''Strange are the Ways of Love''

Written as Lee Duncan

  • ''Fidel Castro Assassinated''

Written as Anne Campbell Clark

  • ''Passport to Peril''

Written as Ben Christopher

In collaboration with Donald E. Westlake

  • A Girl Called Honey
  • So Willing
  • ''Sin Hellcat''

Other fiction

  • Strange Are The Ways of Love, as Lesley Evans
  • Babe in the Woods - Block ghostwrote this novel following the death of author William Ard
  • Death Pulls a Doublecross
  • Mona
  • Markham - written and published as a tie-in to TV series Markham
  • The Girl with the Long Green Heart
  • Deadly Honeymoon
  • After the First Death
  • The Specialists
  • Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man
  • Ariel
  • Code of Arms
  • Into the Night - Block completed this novel from a manuscript by Cornell Woolrich
  • Random Walk
  • Small Town
  • The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes
  • ''Dead Girl Blues''

Short Stories & Collections

  • Sometimes They Bite
  • Like a Lamb to Slaughter
  • Some Days You Get the Bear: Collected Stories
  • Enough Rope: Collected Stories
  • One Night Stands and Lost Weekends
  • Dolly's Trash and Treasures
  • The Night and the Music
  • Ehrengraf for the Defense
  • Catch and Release
  • I Know How To Pick Em
  • Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf
  • Dark City Lights: New York Stories
  • In Sunlight or in Shadow
  • ''Resume Speed and Other Stories''

Screenplay

Books for writers

  • Writing the Novel From Plot to Print
  • Telling Lies for Fun & Profit
  • Write For Your Life
  • Spider, Spin Me a Web
  • The Liar's Bible
  • The Liar's Companion
  • Afterthoughts
  • ''Writing the Novel From Plot to Print to Pixel''

Memoirs

  • Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir
  • ''A Writer Prepares''