Evan Tanner can't sleep. Ever. Which gives him plenty of free time to get involved in lots of interesting endeavors in all sorts of exotic locales. Now Tanner's in Thailand with a partially baked plan and a butterfly net, hoping to snare a beautiful missing chanteuse who's metamorphosed into an international jewel thief. Tanner hopes everyone will buy his disguise as a rare butterfly researcher. And everyone does .

The Scoreless Thai

Sa petite amie a beau être call-girl, son meilleur copain en cavale, son client trafiquant de drogue, matt scudder est un privé honnête.
 Et obstiné.  il est bien arrivé à décrocher de l'alcool ! quand on le met sur un kidnapping particulièrement ignoble, il n'est pas prêt à lâcher la piste.  il est capable de remonter à l'enlèvement des sabines s'il le faut, mais rien ne l'empêchera de penser que francine khoury n'est pas la première victime de ses ravisseurs.  le moindre morceau de preuve lui suffirait pour reconstituer le puzzle.  et ce ne sont pas les morceaux qui manquent.

La balade entre les tombes

Deux de ses lieutenants ayant été abattus, Mick Ballou, le grand Irlandais assassin, philosophe et buveur de whisky, demande à son ami, le détective privé Matt Scuddere de retrouver les coupables. Matt hésite:que fera Mick s'il les lui livre Leur tranchera-t-il la tête ?Mais peu après, Matt est attaqué par des voyous tandis que le bar de Mick est dévasté par une bombe. Qui plus est, Jim Faber, le responsable de Matt Scuddere aux "alcoliques anonymes" est tué. Fini les hésitations: Matt enquêtera et ne fera pas de quartier.Parce que les crimes passées doivent toujours être soldé à l' approche de la mort et du jugement dernier, Matt Scuddere et Mick Ballou se lancent dans une terrifiante enquête, où à chaque page le sang appelle le sang.

Ils y passeront tous

From the revered New York Times bestselling author comes a touching, insightful, and humorous memoir of an unlikely racewalker and world traveler Before Lawrence Block was the author of bestselling novels featuring unforgettable characters such as the hit man Keller, private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and time traveler Evan Tanner, he was a walker. As a child, he walked home from school (mostly because he couldn't ride a bike). As a col-lege student, he walked until he was able to buy his first car (a deep blue 1950 Chevrolet coupe named Pamela, after the Samuel Richardson novel). As an adult, he ran marathons until he discovered what would become a lifelong obsession-never mind if some people didn't think it was a real sport-racewalking. By that time Block had already spent plenty of time walking through the city of New York. But racewalking ended up taking him all over the country, from New Orleans to Anchorage, from marathons in the punishing heat to marathons in the pouring rain. And along the way, as he began to pen the books that would make him a household name among suspense fans all over the world, he found that in life, as in writing, you just need to take one step after the other. Through the lens of his adventures while walking-in twenty-four-hour races, on a pilgrimage through Spain, and just about everywhere you can imagine-Lawrence Block shares his heartwarming personal story about life's trials and tribulations, discomforts and successes, which truly lets readers walk a mile in the master of mystery's shoes.

Step by Step - A Pedestrian Memoir

It's a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot's gone missing, and he's taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner's been in over his head before. This time, however, he's in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries .

Me Tanner, You Jane

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge), ' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector, ' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows, ' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has turned his Hollywood home into a mausoleum of lost dreams." A COLLECTION. OF COLLECTIONS What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: those who've got the collecting bug care passionately-sometimes violently-about the objects of their obsession. No one covets like a collector; and as you will find in the pages of this brand new anthology from MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block, a truly dedicated collector will ignore the other nine commandments, too, in his quest for his personal Holy Grail. From Joyce Carol Oates' tale of the ultimate Marilyn Monroe collectible to Dennis Lehane's bookseller with a penchant for other people's tragic correspondence, from Lee Goldberg's Hollywood hustler with a collection of unaired TV shows to Joe R. Lansdale's stylish foray into noir, culminating in Lawrence Block's own classic story of a killer with a unique approach to choosing his victims, Collectibles illustrates the range of the collecting impulse and the lengths people will go to in their hunger to possess the perfect piece.

Collectibles

Shadows, which was not only the debut of Jill Emerson but my own very first novel, is the story of a young woman, Jan Marlowe, who comes to New York fresh out of college, takes an apartment in the Bohemian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, and seeks to find herself-and specifically to come to terms with the puzzling question of sexual identity. Well then... One morning in the spring of 1958 I woke up in my room at the Hotel Alexandria with a paralyzing hangover (which was not unusual) and an idea for a book (which was). I sat in front of my typewriter, and within a few hours I had produced a chapter-by-chapter outline of a novel. I had all the characters sketched out and knew how they'd relate to one another, and how the rather elementary storyline would resolve itself. I even had a title: Shadows. At the time I was working as an editor at a shady literary agency, but I'd already arranged for my departure, as come fall I'd be resuming college in Ohio. Sometime in May I gave up my room at the Alexandria and went home to Buffalo, where I turned that outline into a book. My agent sent it to Crest Books, then the country's premier publisher of lesbian fiction. They spent a couple of months reading it and thinking it over, during which time I wrote and sold several lesser books to Harry Shorten's Midwood Books. Then, a couple of months after I'd returned to Antioch and gone through a lot of sturm und drang that needn't concern us here, Crest accepted Shadows. They changed my title to Strange Are the Ways of Love. They also changed my pen name. I'd known a lesbian novel ought to have a woman's name on it, and I picked one. They decided on Leslie Evans instead, so it could be gender-neutral, and then switched it to Lesley Evans, which made it more specifically female. Welcome to publishing, young man. It's clear to me now, some 60 years later, that the book ought to set sail under its original title, and since I'm republishing it myself, that's a decision I get to make. It's also clear to me that Shadows is in fact Jill Emerson's very first novel, as it's far more of a piece with Warm And Willing and Enough of Sorrow than with anything else I've written. So that's how I'll publish it, right? As Shadows, dammit, by Lawrence Block writing as Jill Emerson. You got a problem with that?

Shadows - The Jill Emerson Novels, #1

The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson.   A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment.   The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell.  As far as the NYPD is concerned, the case is closed.                                                                      But ex-cop Matt Scudder, is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. And suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust.  In New York's underbelly, the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins...

THE SINS OF THE FATHERS

Le dernier Scudder période alcoolique ENFIN TRADUIT !Privé sans licence enquêtant «pour rendre service», Matthew Scudder a quitté la police de New York et sombré dans l'alcoolisme après avoir tué accidentellement une fillette lors d'un échange de coups de feu avec des malfrats. Chez Armstrong, un bar qu'il fréquente un peu trop, il fait la connaissance de Charles London, qui lui demande de retrouver le meurtrier de sa fille, Barbara Ettinger, tuée neuf ans plus tôt. Son assassinat a été attribué à Louis Pinell, le «Rôdeur au pic à glace» récemment arrêté, qui reconnaît avoir tué sept victimes... mais pas Barbara. Et Scudder le croit. Après s'être renseigné, il se lance sur la piste d'un amant possible: Barbara aurait attendu un enfant noir. Le meurtrier serait-il le mari jaloux? Trop facile. Scudder rencontre alors une voisine de Barbara, qui, elle aussi alcoolique, devient sa maîtresse. 
De fil en aiguille, mais surtout de verre en verre, de meurtre en meurtre et de désespoir en désespoir, Scudder fi nira par y voir clair.

The Scoreless Thai

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