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    Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I...
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  • This is a list of works by Lawrence Block, an American author of mystery fiction, with a career spanning six decades. The Sins of the Fathers (1976) Time...
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  • Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for...
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  • fictional character who appears in novels by American crime writer Lawrence Block. Scudder debuted in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop...
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  • written by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, and Boyd Holbrook...
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  • the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen. The screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, an uncredited...
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    story was published under Passer's name; frequent Westlake collaborator Lawrence Block has suggested "editorial incompetence". Richard Stark: Westlake's best-known...
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  • novels by Lawrence Block. He first appeared in Burglars Can't Be Choosers, published in 1977; as of 2024, he has appeared in twelve novels by Block, as well...
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  • A Walk Among the Tombstones (novel) (category Novels by Lawrence Block)
    A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 1992 crime thriller novel by Lawrence Block. It is the tenth novel to feature Matthew Scudder, an ex cop and private investigator...
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    stingers made with Bacardi rum, as Bacardi was a series sponsor. Women in Lawrence Block novels sometimes drink stingers. In The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis...
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  • reprinting a pair of early Lawrence Block novels, 69 Barrow Street and Strange Embrace, the other a collection of Lawrence Block short stories, Catch and...
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  • Wong Kar-wai, his first feature in English. The screenplay by Wong and Lawrence Block is based on a Chinese-language short film written and directed by Wong...
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    Lawrence J. Block (born March 15, 1951) is a former judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims who was confirmed on October 2, 2002. He retired...
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  • Larry Block (1942–2012), American actor Lauren Block, American marketing academic Lawrence Block (born 1938), American crime writer Lawrence J. Block (born...
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    make another film for MGM, Deadly Honeymoon (1974), from a novel by Lawrence Block. However, O'Neal pulled out. Peter Bogdanovich later said MGM head Jim...
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  • When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (category Novels by Lawrence Block)
    When the Sacred Ginmill Closes is a Matthew Scudder novel, written by Lawrence Block. Based on the short story "By the Dawn's Early Light", and published...
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    We Never Learn, at the end of Chapter 39. Celebrated crime novelist Lawrence Block published The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown in 2022. "Italian short...
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    IMDb. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-11-23. Lawrence Block (2006). The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-087276-4...
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  • contributed short stories or novel excerpts to men's adventure magazines. Lawrence Block wrote prolifically for magazines of this type; some of his stories from...
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  • appeared in the 1999 mystery story anthology Master's Choice, edited by Lawrence Block.[citation needed] Told from the viewpoint of a bandleader during Prohibition...
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  • collaborated on crime fiction-related acrostics with Michael Z. Lewin and with Lawrence Block and others for The Perfect Murder. She also wrote a play, The Madman's...
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    Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the...
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  • out in 2007, with Jean Dujardin in the leading role. From a story by Lawrence Block, it is about a policeman whose young daughter is raped and murdered...
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  • the Fathers, a Matthew Scudder detective novel published in 1976 by Lawrence Block The Sins of Our Fathers, a 1970 analysis of the origins of The Troubles...
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    Crime), an anthology edited by Lawrence Block and featuring works inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). Block is a favorite writer of Ferguson's...
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  • Starkweather–Fugate murders. The novel Not Comin' Home to You (1974) by Lawrence Block has fictional events that are similar to the Starkweather and Fugate...
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  • Hitman: Enemy Within, a novel by William C. Dietz Hit Man, a novel by Lawrence Block Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors, a 1983 book...
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    "Business: Willie Sutton, Bankers' Friend". Time. October 26, 1970. Lawrence Block (2004). Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes...
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  • was adapted from the 1978 novel The Burglar in the Closet by Lawrence Block; in Block's book, Bernie Rhodenbarr is a white man living in New York. It...
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    block. For a composition perspective, Lawrence Oliver said in his article "Helping Students Overcome Writer's Block": "Students receive little or no advice...
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