Even before he invented Matthew Scudder and Bemie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block was writing terrific thrillers. This was one of them. Johnny Hayden and his partner had the perfect scam—offer a guy a fraction of what he paid for a piece of worthless Canadian land and make it seem ...

The Triumph of Evil concers a sinister plan to take over a vast nation. Called for are the assassinations of five key political figures and a demagogue in place to take over in the ensuing chaos. One man with a gun is enough for the job, one man whose sole life function is to kill. ...

In the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring young actor, comes to London seeking fame and fortune. Once there, he stumbles into temporary employment with the Chamberlain's Men, a newly established company at the Globe Theatre in Southwark. Thrown out of his ...

It is midsummer 1601. Actor Nick Revill and the other Chamberlain's Men are crossing the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It should be a pleasant well-paid jaunt to celebrate a noble marriage, but things soon go wrong. In ...

Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed: tank top, denim cutoffs, high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys ...

Roderick is off again—at random—on his amazing and worldly adventures. Who can forget Roderick?... That shy, sensitive robot on the run in the USA of the very near future...that "learning machine" growing up in a complex technological age, surmounting the embarrassment of ...

Richard Hudson is a used car salesman with a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. He sees himself as a walking allegory, the confidence man as a work of art. Hudson lives with his beautiful mother, her black-listed movie director husband (twenty ...