One night stands
Subtitle: and, Lost weekends
By: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780061582141
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories
Other titles: One night stands and lost weekends; Lost cases of Ed London.
Description: "One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Master--an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad" -- back cover.
Notes: "The stories were originally published as One Night Stands in 1999 and the novellas as The Lost Cases of Ed London in 2001 by Crippen & Landru Publishers"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: One night stands. The bad night; title: The badger game; title: Bargain in blood; title: Bride of violence; title: The burning fury; title: The dope; title: A fire at night; title: Frozen stiff; title: Hate goes courting; title: I don't fool around; title: Just window shopping; title: Lie back and enjoy it; title: Look death in the eye; title: Man with a passion; title: Murder is my business; title: Nor iron bars a cage; title: One night of death; title: Package deal; title: Professional killer; title: Pseudo identity; title: Ride a white horse; title: A shroud for the damned; title: Sweet little racket; title: The way to power; title: You can't lose; title: The lost cases of Ed London. The naked and the deadly; title: Stag party girl; title: Twin call girls.