“I always work alone, Al.”
“You’d be working alone. Two hundred a night.”
I whistled. This was sounding good. “What’s the pitch?”
He gave me the look again and chewed his cigar some more. “Kid,” he said, “did you ever kill a man?”
Two hundred bucks for one night’s work! What a perfect racket! Wish me luck, will you? I start tonight.
About the Author
The prolific author of more than fifty books and numerous short stories, Lawrence Block is a Mystery Writers of American Grand Master, a four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus Awards, and the recipient of literary prizes from France, Germany, and Japan. Block is a devout New Yorker who spends much of his time traveling.
BOOKS BY LAWRENCE BLOCK
The Matthew Scudder Novels
The Sins of the Fathers • Time to Murder and Create • In the Midst of Death • A Stab in the Dark • Eight Million Ways to Die • When the Sacred Ginmill Closes • Out on the Cutting Edge • A Ticket to the Boneyard *A Dance at the Slaughterhouse • A Walk Among the Tombstones • The Devil Knows You’re Dead • A Long Line of Dead Men • Even the Wicked • Everybody Dies • Hope to Die
The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries
Burglars Can’t Be Choosers • The Burglar in the Closet • The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling • The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza • The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian • The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams • The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart • The Burglar in the Library • The Burglar in the Rye
The Adventures of Evan Tanner
The Thief Who Couldn’t Sleep • The Canceled Czech • Tanner’s Twelve Swingers • Two for Tanner • Tanner’s Tiger • Here Comes a Hero • Me Tanner, You Jane • Tanner on Ice
The Affairs of Chip Harrison
No Score • Chip Harrison Scores Again • Make Out With Murder • The Topless Tulip Caper
Other Novels
After the First Death • Ariel • Coward’s Kiss • Deadly Honeymoon • The Girl With the Long Green Heart • Hit List • Hit Man • Mona • Not Comin’ Home to You • Random Walk • Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man • The Specialists • Such Men Are Dangerous • The Triumph of Evil • You Could Call It Murder
Collected Short Stories
Sometimes They Bite • Like a Lamb to Slaughter • Some Days You Get the Bear • Ehrengraf for the Defense • One Night Stands • The Lost Cases of Ed London
Anthologies
Death Cruise • Master’s Choice • Opening Shots • Master’s Choice 2 • Speaking of Lust • Speaking of Greed • Opening Shots 2
Books for Writers
Writing the Novel from Plot to Print • Telling Lies for Fun & Profit • Write for Your Life • Spider, Spin Me a Web
Credits
Jacket design by Bradford Foltz
Jacket photograph by Douglas Whyte
Portions of this book were originally published as The Collected Mystery Stories in Great Britain in 1999 by Orion, an imprint of Orion Books Ltd.
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