One Night Stands and Lost Weekends

In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller--and years before his first Edgar Award--a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled You Can't Lose to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history.

One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Master--an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad.

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 11/18/2008
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780061582141

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2008 pg. 102
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2008 pg. 59
Booklist 10/15/2008 pg. 26

About the Author
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Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association--only the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler.