The young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers.

Matthew Scudder is no conscientious avenging angel. A job's a job after all -- and Scudder's been paid to find a killer -- by the victim...in advance.

Matthew Scudder doesn't think a bad cop's a killer, but the cops aren't about to help the unlicensed p.i. prove it -- and they may do a lot worse than just get in his way.

Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he's excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice.

The ever-randy hero of Lawrence Block’s No Score flees New York City for South Carolina, where a job in a whorehouse gives him an opportunity for lots of loving and lots of trouble.

It seems pretty straightforward. Keller's hired, dispatched to Des Moines, and given the particulars on an assignment.

When I decided to reissue my early books in the Collection of Classic Erotica, I did so without realizing what I was getting myself into. I would have to read them again.Or, as in the case of BORN TO BE BAD, I’d have to read them for the first time.

Es 1961, y Fidel Castro está fortaleciendo su control de poder en Cuba. A 300 kilómetros de distancia, un misterioso hombre llamado Hiraldo recluta a cinco Norteamericanos para una misión desesperada.

Die zweite Kurzgeschichte mit dem New Yorker Privatdetektiv Matthew Scudder

“Adoro la serie di Matthew Scudder e adoro le storie brevi; e questa è la collezione completa delle storie di Scudder. Una delle più belle è Alle prime luci dell'alba, vincitrice del premio Edgar Allan Poe.”- Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Ten Most Wanted Books of 2011

In her fifth appearance, “Waitress Wanted,” Kit Tolliver had to leave Phoenix in a hurry. She’d had sex with her boss, and that sealed his fate; the guy had about as much survival potential as a male Black Widow spider.

Tanz im Schlachthof , der neunte Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur Matthew Scudder, bietet tiefe Einblicke in die dunkelsten Bereiche einer dunklen Stadt.