Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free.

An unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip.

Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s? Frozen. Cryogenically.

Keller, an introspective fellow, was always your basic Urban Lonely Guy. He collects stamps. He used to have a dog, until the dog walker walked off with him. Then he soldiered on alone.

Then CAMPUS TRAMP came out, and a copy or two made it all the way to Yellow Springs, and a legend sprang up. I’d written the book as payback, it was said, a way to revenge myself upon the school that had expelled me.

When Don Westlake and I were starting out as writers, we both served an apprenticeship writing erotic novels for Harry Shorten at Midwood Books and Bill Hamling at Nightstand. (I was Sheldon Lord for Midwood and Andrew Shaw for Nightstand, while Don was Alan Marshall for both publishers.

«Me encanta la serie sobre Matthew Scudder, y me encantan los cuentos.»––Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Los diez libros más deseados del 2011

“Adoro la serie di Matthew Scudder, e adoro queste storie brevi.”--Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, I dieci libri più amati del 2011

It is Kit Tolliver's oft-repeated role in life to hook up with a suitable male, go home with him, have richly satisfying and often inventive sex with him, and then kill him and take his money.

Il diner piú famoso d'America, con la sua vetrata piena di luce contro il buio della notte. Una sigaretta fumata di fronte a una finestra aperta, lasciando che il sole penetri nelle ossa.

New York. Soția unui traficant de droguri este răpită de către doi necunoscuți. Matt Scudder, fost polițist, actual detectiv privat care a renunțat la alcool, se implică în caz.