# 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

* The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
* Time to Murder and Create (1976)
* In the Midst of Death (1976)
* A Stab in the Dark (1981)
* Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
* When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986)
* Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
* A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990)
* A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991)
* A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
* The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993)
* A Long Line of Dead Men (1994)
* Even the Wicked (1997)
* Everybody Dies (1998)
* Hope to Die (2001)
* All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)
* A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
* The Night and the Music (2013) (A collection of Matthew Scudder short stories and novelettes, 11 in total)
* A Time to Scatter Stones (2019) (Novella)
* The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder (2023)

## Bernie Rhodenbarr novels

* Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
* The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
* The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
* The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
* The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
* The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
* The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
* The Burglar in the Library (1997)
* The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
* The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)
* The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (2013)
* The Burglar in Short Order (2020)
* The Burglar who Met Fredric Brown (2022)
There are also three Bernie Rhodenbarr short stories: "Like a Thief in the Night" (Cosmopolitan, May 1983), "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (Playboy, April 1990), and "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1997). These stories are collected in the 2002 anthology Enough Rope, and in the Rhodenbarr book, The Burglar in Short Order.

## Evan Tanner novels

* The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
* The Canceled Czech (1966)
* Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
* The Scoreless Thai (also known as Two for Tanner; 1968)
* Tanner's Tiger (1968)
* Here Comes a Hero (also known as Tanner's Virgin; 1968)
* Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
* Tanner on Ice (1998)

## Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)

* No Score (1970)
* Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
* Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
* The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
* "As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), 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 (Vanguard Press 2010, ISBN 978-1-59315-617-6)
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains two Chip Harrison stories.

## Keller novels

* Hit Man (1998)
* Hit List (2000)
* Hit Parade (2006)
* Hit and Run (2008)
* Hit Me (2013)
* Keller's Fedora (2016) (Novella)
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains excerpts from the five Keller novels, plus the novella.

## Written as Jill Emerson

* Warm and Willing (1964)
* Enough of Sorrow (1965)
* Thirty (1970)
* Threesome (1970)
* A Madwoman's Diary (1972)
* The Trouble with Eden (1973)
* A Week as Andrea Benstock (1975)
* Getting Off (2011)
* Shadows (2016)

## Written as Paul Kavanagh

* Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
* The Triumph of Evil (1971)
* Not Comin' Home to You (1974)

## Written as Sheldon Lord

* Carla (Midwood Books, 1958)
* Born to Be Bad (Tower Publications, 1959)
* 69 Barrow Street (Tower Publications, 1959)
* A Strange Kind of Love (Tower Publications, 1960)
* Of Shame and Joy: An Original Novel (Midwood Books, 1960)
* A Woman Must Love (Tower Publications, 1960)
* Kept Midwood 035 (Tower Publications, 1960)
* Candy (Tower Publications, 1960)
* 21 Gay Street: An Original Novel (Tower Publications, 1960)
* April North (Beacon Books, 1961)
* Pads are for Passion (Beacon Books, 1961) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as A Diet of Treacle)
* Community of Women (Beacon Books, 1963)
* The Sex Shuffle (Beacon Books, 1964) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Lucky at Cards)
* Savage Lover (Softcover Library, 1968) (written in 1958; reissued by Hard Case Crime as Sinner Man)

## Written as Andrew Shaw

* Campus Tramp (Nightstand Books, 1959)
* The Adulterers (Corinth Publications, 1960)
* High School Sex Club (Nightstand Books, 1960)
* College for Sinners (Corinth Publications, 1960)
* Sexpot! (Nightstand Books, 1960)
* The Twisted Ones (Nightstand Books, 1961)
* $20 Lust (Corinth Publications, 1961) (reissued as Cinderella Sims by Greenleaf Classics)
* Gutter Girl (Bedstand Books, 1961)
* Lover (Nightstand Books, 1961) (reissued as Gigolo Johnny Wells)
* Sin Devil (Nightstand Books, 1961)
* Four Lives at the Crossroads (1962)

## Written as Don Holliday

* Circle of Sinners (1961) - in collaboration with Hal Dresner
* Border Lust (1962) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Borderline)

## Written as Lesley Evans

* Strange are the Ways of Love (1959)

## Written as Lee Duncan

* Fidel Castro Assassinated (1961) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Killing Castro)

## Written as Anne Campbell Clark

* Passport to Peril (1967)

## Written as Ben Christopher

* Strange Embrace (1962) - written as a tie-in to TV series Johnny Midnight

## In collaboration with Donald E. Westlake

* A Girl Called Honey (Midwood Books, 1960, credited to Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall)
* So Willing (Midwood Books, 1960, credited to Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall)
* Sin Hellcat (Nightstand Books, 1961, credited to Andrew Shaw)

## Other fiction

* Strange Are The Ways of Love (1958), as Lesley Evans (reissued in 2016 as Shadows, by Jill Emerson)
* Babe in the Woods (1960) - Block ghostwrote this novel following the death of author William Ard (only Ard is credited)
* Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) (reissued as Coward's Kiss)
* Mona (1961) (reissued as Sweet Slow Death and by Hard Case Crime as Grifter's Game)
* Markham (1961) (reissued as You Could Call It Murder) - written and published as a tie-in to TV series Markham
* The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
* Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
* After the First Death (1969)
* The Specialists (1969)
* Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
* Ariel (1980)
* Code of Arms (1981)
* Into the Night (1987) - Block completed this novel from a manuscript by Cornell Woolrich
* Random Walk (1988)
* Small Town (2003)
* The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes (2015)
* Dead Girl Blues (2020)

## Short Stories & Collections

* Sometimes They Bite (1983)
* Like a Lamb to Slaughter (1984)
* Some Days You Get the Bear: Collected Stories (1994)
* Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
* One Night Stands and Lost Weekends (2009)
* Dolly's Trash and Treasures (written for audio presentation in The Sounds of Crime) (2010)
* The Night and the Music (2011)
* Ehrengraf for the Defense (2012)
* Catch and Release (2013)
* I Know How To Pick Em (2013) (short story in anthology Dangerous Women) (2013)
* Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf (2014)
* Dark City Lights: New York Stories (2015)
* Resume Speed and Other Stories (2018)

## Screenplay

* My Blueberry Nights (2007, co-written with Wong Kar-wai)

## Books for writers

* Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
* Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981) [a collection of his slightly re-edited fiction how-to column from Writer's Digest]
* Write For Your Life (1986)
* Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)
* The Liar's Bible (2011)
* The Liar's Companion (2011)
* Afterthoughts (2011)
* Writing the Novel From Plot to Print to Pixel (2016)

## Memoirs

* Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)
* A Writer Prepares (2021)