Lawrence Block bibliography

This is a list of works by Lawrence Block, an American author of mystery fiction, with a career spanning six decades.

Matthew Scudder novels

 * 1) The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
 * 2) Time to Murder and Create (1976)
 * 3) In the Midst of Death (1976)
 * 4) A Stab in the Dark (1981)
 * 5) Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
 * 6) When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986)
 * 7) Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
 * 8) A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990)
 * 9) A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991)
 * 10) A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
 * 11) The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993)
 * 12) A Long Line of Dead Men (1994)
 * 13) Even the Wicked (1997)
 * 14) Everybody Dies (1998)
 * 15) Hope to Die (2001)
 * 16) All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)
 * 17) A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
 * 18) The Night and the Music (2013) (A collection of Matthew Scudder short stories and novelettes, 11 in total)
 * 19) A Time to Scatter Stones (2019) (Novella)
 * 20) The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder (2023)

Bernie Rhodenbarr novels
There are also three Bernie Rhodenbarr short stories: "Like a Thief in the Night" (Cosmopolitan, May 1983), "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (Playboy, April 1990), and "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1997). These stories are collected in the 2002 anthology Enough Rope, and in the Rhodenbarr book, The Burglar in Short Order.
 * 1) Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
 * 2) The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
 * 3) The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
 * 4) The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
 * 5) The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
 * 6) The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
 * 7) The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
 * 8) The Burglar in the Library (1997)
 * 9) The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
 * 10) The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)
 * 11) The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (2013)
 * 12) The Burglar in Short Order (2020)
 * 13) The Burglar who Met Fredric Brown (2022)

Evan Tanner novels

 * 1) The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
 * 2) The Canceled Czech (1966)
 * 3) Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
 * 4) The Scoreless Thai (also known as Two for Tanner; 1968)
 * 5) Tanner's Tiger (1968)
 * 6) Here Comes a Hero (also known as Tanner's Virgin; 1968)
 * 7) Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
 * 8) Tanner on Ice (1998)

Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains two Chip Harrison stories.
 * 1) No Score (1970)
 * 2) Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
 * 3) Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
 * 4) The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
 * 5) "As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler–owned Mysterious Bookshop; printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season, and collected in Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop (Vanguard Press 2010, ISBN 978-1-59315-617-6)

Keller novels
A collection of eighty-four short stories, Enough Rope (2002), contains five Keller stories.
 * 1) Hit Man (1998)
 * 2) Hit List (2000)
 * 3) Hit Parade (2006)
 * 4) Hit and Run (2008)
 * 5) Hit Me (2013)
 * 6) Keller's Fedora (2016) (Novella)

Written as Jill Emerson

 * Warm and Willing (1964)
 * Enough of Sorrow (1965)
 * Thirty (1970)
 * Threesome (1970)
 * A Madwoman's Diary (1972)
 * The Trouble with Eden (1973)
 * A Week as Andrea Benstock (1975)
 * Getting Off (2011)
 * Shadows (2016)

Written as Paul Kavanagh

 * Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
 * The Triumph of Evil (1971)
 * Not Comin' Home to You (1974)

Written as Sheldon Lord

 * Carla (Midwood Books, 1958)
 * Born to Be Bad (Tower Publications, 1959)
 * 69 Barrow Street (Tower Publications, 1959)
 * A Strange Kind of Love (Tower Publications, 1960)
 * Of Shame and Joy: An Original Novel (Midwood Books, 1960)
 * A Woman Must Love (Tower Publications, 1960)
 * Kept Midwood 035 (Tower Publications, 1960)
 * Candy (Tower Publications, 1960)
 * 21 Gay Street: An Original Novel (Tower Publications, 1960)
 * April North (Beacon Books, 1961)
 * Pads are for Passion (Beacon Books, 1961) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as A Diet of Treacle)
 * Community of Women (Beacon Books, 1963)
 * The Sex Shuffle (Beacon Books, 1964) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Lucky at Cards)
 * Savage Lover (Softcover Library, 1968) (written in 1958; reissued by Hard Case Crime as Sinner Man)

Written as Andrew Shaw



 * Campus Tramp (Nightstand Books, 1959)
 * The Adulterers (Corinth Publications, 1960)
 * High School Sex Club (Nightstand Books, 1960)
 * College for Sinners (Corinth Publications, 1960)
 * Sexpot! (Nightstand Books, 1960)
 * The Twisted Ones (Nightstand Books, 1961)
 * $20 Lust (Corinth Publications, 1961) (reissued as Cinderella Sims by Greenleaf Classics)
 * Gutter Girl (Bedstand Books, 1961)
 * Lover (Nightstand Books, 1961) (reissued as Gigolo Johnny Wells)
 * Sin Devil (Nightstand Books, 1961)
 * Four Lives at the Crossroads (1962)

Written as Don Holliday

 * Circle of Sinners (1961) - in collaboration with Hal Dresner
 * Border Lust (1962) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Borderline)

Written as Lesley Evans

 * Strange are the Ways of Love (1959)

Written as Lee Duncan

 * Fidel Castro Assassinated (1961) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Killing Castro)

Written as Anne Campbell Clark

 * Passport to Peril (1967)

Written as Ben Christopher

 * Strange Embrace (1962) - written as a tie-in to TV series Johnny Midnight

In collaboration with Donald E. Westlake

 * A Girl Called Honey (Midwood Books, 1960, credited to Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall)
 * So Willing (Midwood Books, 1960, credited to Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall)
 * Sin Hellcat (Nightstand Books, 1961, credited to Andrew Shaw)

Other fiction

 * Strange Are The Ways of Love (1958), as Lesley Evans (reissued in 2016 as Shadows, by Jill Emerson)
 * Babe in the Woods (1960) - Block ghostwrote this novel following the death of author William Ard (only Ard is credited)
 * Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) (reissued as Coward's Kiss)
 * Mona (1961) (reissued as Sweet Slow Death and by Hard Case Crime as Grifter's Game)
 * Markham (1961) (reissued as You Could Call It Murder) - written and published as a tie-in to TV series Markham
 * The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
 * Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
 * After the First Death (1969)
 * The Specialists (1969)
 * Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
 * Ariel (1980)
 * Code of Arms (1981)
 * Into the Night (1987) - Block completed this novel from a manuscript by Cornell Woolrich
 * Random Walk (1988)
 * Small Town (2003)
 * The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes (2015)
 * Dead Girl Blues (2020)

Short Stories & Collections

 * Sometimes They Bite (1983)
 * Like a Lamb to Slaughter (1984)
 * Some Days You Get the Bear: Collected Stories (1994)
 * Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
 * One Night Stands and Lost Weekends (2009)
 * Dolly's Trash and Treasures (written for audio presentation in The Sounds of Crime) (2010)
 * The Night and the Music (2011)
 * Ehrengraf for the Defense (2012)
 * Catch and Release (2013)
 * I Know How To Pick Em (2013) (short story in anthology Dangerous Women) (2013)
 * Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf (2014)
 * Dark City Lights: New York Stories (2015)
 * Resume Speed and Other Stories (2018)

Screenplay

 * My Blueberry Nights (2007, co-written with Wong Kar-wai)

Books for writers

 * Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
 * Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981) [a collection of his slightly re-edited fiction how-to column from Writer's Digest]
 * Write For Your Life (1986)
 * Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)
 * The Liar's Bible (2011)
 * The Liar's Companion (2011)
 * Afterthoughts (2011)
 * Writing the Novel From Plot to Print to Pixel (2016)

Memoirs

 * Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)
 * A Writer Prepares (2021)