A Story From The Dark Side, by Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and winner of multiple awards, including the Edgar and the Shamus awards for his novels.
I hope you enjoyed this story. If so, I’d love to hear from you.
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If you did in fact like this story, you might enjoy more of my short fiction. Three collections of my short fiction are available as ebooks:
Enough Rope
One Night Stands & Lost Weekends
Ehrengraf for the Defense
Also available as special edition ebooks are Single Short Stories, Novellas, and a play. Subscribe to LB’s blog and sign up for the newsletter to get the latest updates on sales, new releases and special offers.
Stories From the Dark Side
“Catch & Release” (a fisherman)
“A Chance to Get Even” (a poker game)
“Dolly’s Trash & Treasures” (a hoarder)
“Headaches and Bad Dreams” (a psychic)
“In For a Penny” (New York noir)
“Like a Bone in the Throat” (revenge)
“Scenarios” (a man with imagination)
“Sweet Little Hands” (a cheating wife)
“Three In The Side Pocket” (a failed scam)
“Welcome to the Real World” (a golfer)
“Who Knows Where It Goes” (a job hunter)
“You Don’t Even Feel It” (a boxer’s wife)
Bernie Rhodenbarr
“The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke”
“Like a Thief in the Night”
Chip Harrison
“As Dark As Christmas Gets”
Ehrengraf For The Defense
“The Ehrengraf Defense”
“The Ehrengraf Presumption”
“The Ehrengraf Experience”
“The Ehrengraf Apointment”
“The Ehrengraf Riposte”
“The Ehrengraf Obligation”
“The Ehrengraf Alternative”
“The Ehrengraf Nostrum”
“The Ehrengraf Affirmation”
“The Ehrengraf Reverse”
“The Ehrengraf Settlement
Keller
“Keller in Dallas”
Four-Part Novellas
“Speaking of Greed”
“Speaking of Lust”
A One-Act Stage Play
“How Far”
Short Stories
“Almost Perfect” (baseball and adultery)
“A Bad Night for Burglars” (a bad-luck burglar)
“Terrible Tommy Terhune” (a tennis player)
“A Vision in White” (another tennis player)
For a list of all my available fiction, with my series novels listed in chronological order, go to About LB’s Fiction. And if you LOVE any of these stories, I’d really appreciate it if you’d tell your friends—including the friends you haven’t met, by blogging, posting an online review, or otherwise spreading the word.
Thanks!
Lawrence Block
Available Now! The complete collection of Martin H. Ehrengraf stories.
Includes the newest story, The Ehrengraf Settlement.
You've never met a lawyer like Martin Ehrengraf. He never loses a case, and rarely sees the inside of a courtroom. Nor does he pass his hours poring over dusty legal volumes, or searching the Lexis database. Ehrengraf is a criminal lawyer who takes cases on a contingency basis; he collects a fee only when his client goes free. And that somehow never fails to happen happens, because his clients always turn out to be innocent.
Ehrengraf's debut came in 1978, in Ellery Queen. Ten stories appeared between then and 2003, and now, after almost a decade, the dapper little lawyer is back (only in eBook form, and only for Kindle) in "The Ehrengraf Settlement." All eleven Ehrengraf stories, exclusively eVailable as Kindle Select titles, have now been gathered up into this full-length eBook.
In 1994, when there were only eight stories about the fellow, a small press collected them in a limited edition of Ehrengraf for the Defense. (That little volume commands $250 to $1250 on the collector market—if you can find it.) Edward D. Hoch, acknowledged master of short mystery fiction, wrote an appreciative introduction, and Lawrence Block added an afterword. Hoch's introduction is reprinted in our new enlarged eDition of the stories, and Block has updated his afterword.
Lawrence Block has peopled his fictional universe with a host of memorable characters. If you want a walk through the dark and gritty streets of Manhattan and the outer boroughs, Matt Scudder's your man. If you need a lighthearted and lightfingered companion to lift something from a safe in a triple-locked apartment, you want Bernie Rhodenbarr. If you have to get someone out of your hair once and for all, you'd better get Keller on the case.
But if you're facing a murder charge, and if the evidence is overwhelming, you want the one man who's not only prepared to believe in your innocence but able to demonstrate it to the world. You want Ehrengraf.
Just make sure you pay his fee...
Available now on Amazon
Ehrengraf For The Defense
The Complete Short Story Collection
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