His work has appeared in American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, Linn’s Stamp News, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and The New York Times. His monthly instructional column ran in Writer’s Digest for 14 years, and led to a string of books for writers, including the classics Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and The Liar’s Bible. He has also written episodic television (Tilt!) and the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights.
He is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America, and a past president of MWA and the Private Eye Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times each, and the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe and Philip Marlowe awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and the Diamond Dagger for Life Achievement from the Crime Writers Association (UK). He’s also been honored with the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award from Mystery Ink magazine and the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in the short story. In France, he has been proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has twice been awarded the Societe 813 trophy. He has been a guest of honor at Bouchercon and at book fairs and mystery festivals in France, Germany, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and Taiwan.
Learn more about him and his storied career at lawrenceblock.com.
Afterword
We at Mystery Writers of America hope you enjoyed this collection of stories from our great writers. Lawrence Block’s Blood On Their Hands is the latest in a series of classic crime collections in our new program, Mystery Writers of America Presents: MWA Classics.
Since 1945, MWA has been America’s premiere organization for professional mystery writers, a group dedicated to learning from each other, helping new members, and sharing our successes and good times. One way we celebrate our talent is through the production of original, themed anthologies, published more or less yearly since 1946, in which one remarkable writer invites others to his or her collection.
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Story Copyrights
Forward copyright © 2018 by Lawrence Block
Introduction copyright © 2003 by Lawrence Block
“Her Last Gift,” copyright © 2003 by Brendan DuBois
“JoJo’s Gold,” copyright © 2003 by Noreen Ayres
“Black Heart and Cabin Girl,” copyright © 2003 by Shelley Costa
“One of Us,” copyright © 2003 by Tom Savage
“A Trail of Mirrors,” copyright © 2003 by Tracy Knight
“Along for the Ride,” copyright © 2003 by Aileen Schumacher
“Red Meat” copyright © 2003 by Elaine Viets
“The Maids,” copyright © 2003 by G. Miki Hayden
“Guardian Angel,” copyright © 2003 by Elaine Togneri
“The Day of the 31st” copyright ©2003 by Henry Slesar
“Another Night to Remember,” copyright © 2003 by William E. Chambers
“The Trouble with Harry,” copyright © 2003 by Stefanie Matteson
“Any Old Mother,” copyright © 2003 by Charlotte Hinger
“Guile Is Where It Goes,” copyright © 2003 by Dan Crawford
“Doppelganger,” copyright © 2003 by Rhys Bowen
“Bloody Victims,” copyright © 2003 by Mat Coward
“Safety First” copyright © 2003 by Marcia Talley
“No Man’s Land,” copyright © 2003 by Elizabeth Foxwell.
“The Lady from Yesterday,” © 2003 by Jeremiah Healy
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