《杀人排行榜》讲述了：约翰•凯勒是人人最爱的杀手，是一种新类型的英雄。他冷静、可靠，是杀手中的杀手。碍事的妻子、老去的运动球星、生意合伙人、有庞大遗产的退休人士，他全都可以解决掉，安静又有效率。尽管凯勒是个务实的顶尖杀手，但他不时会感到疑惑与寂寞。尽管他有一位爱说笑的经纪人，还有那批宝贝的邮票收藏，但现在，这些好像不够了。
或许是收手去沙漠里找个小房子的时候了。唯一的问题是，要有钱才能退休。而为了要得到钱，他就得去干活儿……

"I would urge other writers, at whatever point in their careers, to take the time to read this indispensable handbook.... Telling Lies for Fun & Profit should be a permanent part of every writer's library."-- From the Introduction by Sue Grafton Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career. From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline and "creative procrastination," through coping with rejections, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit is an invaluable sourcebook of information. It is a must read for anyone serious about writing or understanding how the process works.

《作废的捷克人》：伊凡•谭纳是世界各地隐秘组织的积极拥护者。朝鲜战争中的碎弹片让闹钟成了他最用不着的玩意——睡眠中枢被破坏，根本不用睡觉。人人皆欲诛之的纳粹余孽——雅诺斯•库塔切克被捷克政府拘禁，而且要因他在二次大战期间的罪行被押上绞刑台。但对于谭纳偶尔效命的超机密情报单位来说，雅诺斯•库塔切克活着比死了要更有价值。谭纳的任务很简单：只身去布拉格——突袭一座城堡——救出已丧失行动能力的罪犯。当然这只是最轻松的部分。谭纳还需要保住自己和俘虏的性命，顺利穿过重重铁幕下破碎的东欧。

《蝙蝠俠的幫手》集結了十篇馬修．史卡德的短篇探案，從中，你可以回味《酒店關門之後》的故事源頭，可以回到《刀鋒之先》寶拉自17層高樓墜下的現場，還有他和老長官馬哈菲處理一樁舉槍自殺意外的插曲，以及其他各色各樣，揭開馬修．史卡德序幕的原點，是一本進入史卡德、重溫史卡德的最佳選擇。
「我喜歡透過馬修．史卡德的眼睛來看這個世界，喜歡通過馬修．史卡德的感受來說這個世界。」
──勞倫斯‧卜洛克
■本書目錄
窗外
給袋婦的一支蠟燭
黎明的第一道曙光
蝙蝠俠的幫手
慈悲的死亡天使
夜晚與音樂
尋找大衛
夢幻泡影
一時糊塗
立於不敗之地

The winner of multiple Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon Awards, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block has elevated the detective novel to high art--combining grit with intelligence, suspense with stunning emotional complexity and power. And in unlicensed private investigator Matthew Scudder, he has created a character whose depth and stark humanity is unrivalled in contemporary fiction.
An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant--a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder--ex-cop, ex-boozer--has known death in all its guises. Which is why he has been asked to investigate a baffling, thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen. But Scudder has mortality problems of his own. For this is a city that feeds mercilessly on the unsuspecting--and even thepowerful and those who serve them are easy prey. There are too many secrets here--and too many places for a maddeningly patient serial killer to hide...and wait...and strike.

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients, " he figured, the more money - and more people eager to see him dead. So no one is surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in. And what's worse, no one cares - except Matthew Scudder. The ex-cop-turned-private-eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job after all - and Scudder's been paid to find a killer - by the victim...in advance.

A deranged derelict, a crazed Vietnam vet, has been arrested for gunning down successful young lawyer Glenn Holtzmann at a corner phone booth on Eleventh Avenue -- and the suspect's brother wants p.i. Matthew Scudder to prove the madman innocent. But Scudder's curiosity and dedication are leading him to dark, unexplored places in his own heart...and to passions and secrets that could destroy everything be loves.

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life.The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question. It's a world where nothing is certain and nobody's safe, a random universe where no one's survival can be taken for granted. Not even his own. A world where everybody dies.

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Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby , changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously reclusive author. But when Bernie gets there, the agent is dead . . . and Bernie's wanted for murder. (He really hates when that happens!) Perhaps it's karmic payback; Bernie did help himself to a ruby necklace on his way out. (But it was lying there. And he is a burglar.) Now he's in even hotter water. And he'll need to use every trick in the book—maybe going so far as to entice the hermitic Fairborn himself out of seclusion—to bring this increasingly twisted plot to a satisfying denouement.

Multilingual, anarchic spy Evan Tanner once again goes behind the Iron Curtain in this 1966 seriocomic tale. This time, he must break into a Prague prison to liberate a despicable Nazi who will lead Tanner to the documents exposing his network of hatred. As is typical in Block's Tanner yarns, the spy has unusual allies: a gang of Israeli terrorists and a beautiful Czech nymphomaniac. Then Tanner and his charge, Janos Kotacek, make a painstaking journey through Hungary and Yugoslavia and finally to Portugal. The means he devises to silence Kotacek's racist rants, sneak him into the West, and trick him into revealing his secrets are extremely clever. Nick Sullivan's skill with a wide range of accents and his irreverent tone make him the perfect reader for Tanner's Cold War adventures. Recommended for public libraries, though some listeners may have trouble with the sexism typical of the period. Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr.
The second book in the Evan Tanner series finds Tanner working as an agent--for a man and an agency so secret that both are nameless--and assigned to slip into Czechoslovakia to accomplish the most incredible kidnapping of the century. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Keller is friendly. Industrious. A bit lonely, sometimes. If it wasn't for the fact that he kills people for a living, he'd be just your average Joe. The inconvenient wife, the troublesome sports star, the greedy business partner, the vicious dog, he'll take care of them all, quietly and efficiently. If the price is right. Like the rest of us, Keller's starting to worry about his retirement. After all, he's not getting any younger. (His victims, on the other hand, aren't getting any older.) So he contacts his "booking agent," Dot, up in White Plains, and tells her to keep the hits coming. He'll take any job, anywhere. His nest egg needs fattening up. Of course, being less choosy means taking greater risks—and that could buy Keller some big trouble. Then again, in this game, there are plenty of opportunities for some inventive improvisation . . . and a determined self-motivator can make a killing.

In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.

斯卡德还是警察的时候，他的女友、应召女郎兼房地产专家伊莱恩被一名完事后不付钱、热爱各种残酷性虐待游戏的恶徒缠上，斯卡德布置了一个陷阱顺利送他入狱。多年之后，坏人回来了，并展开报复，扬言要除掉所有斯卡德的女人，哪怕这个女人他根本不认识，只是因为她也姓斯卡德，斯卡德本人则是最后一个牺牲品。

《在死亡之中》内容简介：我是私家侦探，但没有执照，我爱漂亮女人，更爱烈酒波本，我不是正义的化身，更不想当救世主，我总会把用血换来的钱捐给教堂，但上帝始终把我抛弃，酒店关门之后，我无家可归，我叫马修，我是个酒鬼，今天，我无话可说。