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  • The Amber Waves of Autumn
    Joyce Carol Oates / Lawrence Block / Wolf
    The Amber Waves of Autumn is the third installment in Kelp Journal’s bestselling and award-winning beach noir series. In each collection, we include some of the biggest heavyweights in the game with the brightest emerging writers to provide our readers with deft, thrilling, and satisfying noir storytelling.In this installment, we include National Book Award winners, Edgar and S...
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    18,44 €

  • The Naked and the Deadly
    Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block’s 'lost' stories, complete and uncut for the first time since their original publication!The focus and subject matter of mid-century men’s adventure magazines (MAMs) could be wide-ranging, and versatile storytellers able to confidently navigate genres, approaches, and authorial voices found regular, lucrative work in their pages. Among those talented writers was ...
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    40,56 €

  • The Naked and the Deadly
    Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block’s 'lost' stories, complete and uncut for the first time since their original publication!The focus and subject matter of mid-century men’s adventure magazines (MAMs) could be wide-ranging, and versatile storytellers able to confidently navigate genres, approaches, and authorial voices found regular, lucrative work in their pages. Among those talented writers was ...
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    21,70 €

  • Enough of Sorrow
    Jill Emerson / Lawrence Block
    Here’s what someone wrote as the book description for an earlier edition of ENOUGH OF SORROW:'From master storyteller Lawrence Block comes one girl’s journey toward self-discovery and sexual freedom....Karen Winslow is starting over. But she’s not sure how to move forward when her deepest secret haunts her and keeps her from enjoying her carefree youth. She’s a sweet but troubl...
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    13,00 €

  • A Writer Prepares
    Lawrence Block
    Sometime in 1953, I knew with unusual certainty what I intended to do with my life. I would become a writer. I was then 15 years old, and the next several years were to prove eventful. I went to college, I got a summer job at a literary agency and dropped out of college to keep it, I sold two dozen short stories and articles to national magazines, and I completed a novel. By th...
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    27,31 €

  • A Writer Prepares
    Lawrence Block
    Sometime in 1953, I knew with unusual certainty what I intended to do with my life. I would become a writer. I was then 15 years old, and the next several years were to prove eventful. I went to college, I got a summer job at a literary agency and dropped out of college to keep it, I sold two dozen short stories and articles to national magazines, and I completed a novel. By th...
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    17,14 €

  • Collectibles
    Lawrence Block
    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 MW...
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    27,25 €

  • Collectibles
    Lawrence Block
    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 MW...
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    17,08 €

  • Afterthoughts
    Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles about the work, and arranged for its distribution as an ebook. Here’s what the publisher had to day about it at the time:'In a career spanning more than fifty years, Lawrence Blo...
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    27,11 €

  • Afterthoughts
    Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles about the work, and arranged for its distribution as an ebook. Here’s what the publisher had to day about it at the time:'In a career spanning more than fifty years, Lawrence Blo...
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    16,93 €

  • Random Walk
    Lawrence Block
    In Roseburg, Oregon, a bartender walks off his job and heads east with no destination in mind. The Cascades are in his way, but he doesn’t let that stop him.He keeps walking. And other people are moved to join him, and as they walk the group generates a sort of collective energy, and unexpected things happen. Miraculous things, you might say.Meanwhile, in Kansas, a perfectly re...
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    30,66 €

  • The Liar’s Bible
    Lawrence Block
    Five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column for Writers Digest Magazine for fourteen years. The Liar's Bible consists of previously uncollected columns, chosen to illuminate the often dimly-lit path of the writer of fiction.Here's what one reader said:"I am fascinated by the creative process and there are few excellent examples of t...
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    30,72 €

  • The Liar’s Companion
    Lawrence Block
    For fourteen years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible...and now The Liar's Companion.Reader reviews:"This recently released treasure from award winning mystery...
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    31,88 €

  • Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel
    Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block’s WRITING THE NOVEL remained continuously in print since 1978. But the world of publishing has changed, and Block has expanded and updated his original text, bringing each chapter up to date and adding new material on ebooks, self-publishing, and what perils and opportunities await the new novelist-and the veteran as well.Unlike many advice-givers, Block doesn’t ...
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    30,65 €

  • The Crime of Our Lives
    Lawrence Block
    An MWA Grand Master tells it straight:Raymond Chandler: “You have to wonder how he got it so right.He spent a lot of time in the house—working, reading, writing letters. He saw to his wife, who required a lot of attention in her later years. And when he did get out, you wouldn’t find him walking the mean streets. La Jolla, it must be noted, was never much for mean streets.”Evan...
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    30,92 €

  • Write for Your Life
    Lawrence Block
    In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers.For several years he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing, and designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper. This book was...
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    31,05 €

  • Resume Speed and Other Stories
    Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block's new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years."Hard Sell," a story ghost-written under Craig Rice's name, appeared in the first issue of Ed McBain's Mystery Magazinein 1960, and features Rice's hard-drinking yet clear-thinking lawyer, John J.Malone."Dead to the World," which appeared under a one-shot pen na...
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    31,28 €

  • Catch and Release
    Lawrence Block
    One of the most highly acclaimed novelists in the crime genre, Lawrence Block is also a master of the short story, with award-winning work ranging from the macabre to the slyly comic, from heart-stopping tales of revenge to memorable explorations of lust and greed, all told in Block's unforgettable style. The sixteen stories (and one stage play!) collected here feature appe...
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    30,66 €

  • Defender of the Innocent
    Lawrence Block
    The Criminal Defense Lawyer. Redefined.Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block’s darkest creation. He’s the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent--no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spo...
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    31,04 €

  • A Long Line of Dead Men
    Lawrence Block
    Matthew Scudder, played by Liam Neeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones, investigates a secret, private club in Manhattan whose members suddenly start dying, when it becomes obvious that someone is trying to kill them all. ...
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    30,68 €

  • A Stab in the Dark
    Lawrence Block
    Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge. ...
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    31,21 €

  • A Walk Among the Tombstones
    Lawrence Block
    WHEN YOU CAN’T CALL THE COPS, YOU CALL SCUDDER. Kenan Khoury’s wife went out grocery shopping and never came home. Alive, anyway. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a living he can’t go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead -- an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to bring the brutal killers to justice before...
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    30,63 €

  • At Home in the Dark
    Lawrence Block
    The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark:“Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian, and Joe Hill's novelette slithers through a little doorway into a...
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    30,57 €

  • Keller’s Fedora
    Lawrence Block
    Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career.The client's wife is having an affair, and Keller's been hired to get rid of her lover. But who is this mysterious lover? The husband do...
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    31,56 €

  • A Time to Scatter Stones
    Lawrence Block
    More than 40 years after his debut and nearly a decade since his last appearance, one of the most renowned characters in all of crime fiction is back on the case.Well past retirement age and feeling his years-but still staying sober one day at a time-Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren’t the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt’s longtime partner, El...
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    31,36 €

  • Dead Girl Blues
    Lawrence Block
    You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block’s new novel is not for everyone. It’s recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman.And rapes and murders her.But, um, not in that order.Right. But it’s what he does with the rest of his life that’s really interesting…Lawr...
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    17,45 €

  • Dead Girl Blues
    Lawrence Block
    You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block’s new novel is not for everyone. It’s recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman.And rapes and murders her.But, um, not in that order.Right. But it’s what he does with the rest of his life that’s really interesting…Lawr...
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    28,44 €

  • Dead Girl Blues - Edizione Italiana
    Lawrence Block
    "È da tanto che non leggo nulla che mi abbia così colpito e stimolato. DEAD GIRL BLUES è audacemente originale, scioccante e brillantemente raccontato. In un periodo in cui molti romanzi polizieschi si confondono tra loro, il Maestro Lawrence Block dimostra ancora una volta di essere un autore unico nel suo genere."~ David Morrell, autore bestseller del New York Times con '...
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    17,50 €

  • Dead Girl Blues - Deutsche Ausgabe
    Lawrence Block
    „Das Buch ist so düster, dass es ins Ultraviolette dreht. Aber es ist auch furchtlos und tut, was Kunst tun soll. Wenn Sie bereit sind, sich von dem, was Sie sehen, und von den Augen, durch die Sie es sehen, schockieren zu lassen, wird Ihnen Lawrence Block vielleicht den DEAD GIRL BLUES singen.“Warren Moore„DEAD GIRL BLUES lässt mich nicht los. Es ist wie eine Retardtablette, d...
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    17,36 €

  • Dead Girl Blues - Deutsche Ausgabe
    Lawrence Block / Sepp Leeb
    'Dunkel und kalt wie die Rückseite des Monds, aber mit einer Prosa, so schlank wie ein Model, ist DEAD GIRL BLUES wie eine Leiche, von der man den Blick nicht abwenden kann. Ich konnte das Buch nicht mehr weglegen – und wollte es auch nicht. Ein düsteres Meisterwerk der Erzählkunst.'Joe R. Lansdale 'Das Buch ist so düster, dass es ins Ultraviolette dreht. Aber es ist auch furch...
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    16,21 €


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