Classic Crime Library

16 primary works

After the First Death

by Lawrence Block

Published 13 August 1981

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why-before the police do.

Deadly Honeymoon

by Lawrence Block

Published 9 April 1981

The Specialists

by Lawrence Block

Published August 1980

The Triumph of Evil

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 January 1986

One man, living in a quiet university town, sets in motion a political revolution which destroys the United States.

Such Men Are Dangerous

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 March 1985

Not Comin' Home to You

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 July 1986

An account of the murders that inspired the acclaimed film Badlands.

Not Comin'Home to You

by Lawrence Block

Published 7 February 2016

You Could Call It Murder

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 March 1987

Coward's Kiss

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 March 1987

A WOMAN FOUND SHOT IN CENTRAL PARK MEANS MORE THAN MURDER IN ONE OF BLOCK'S MOST CHILLING MYSTERIES. ANOTHER NOVEL OF NONSTOP SUSPENSE FROM MYSTERY'S GRAND MASTER OF MURDER AND MAYHEM. New York City private investigator Ed London has a problem. Or rather, the problem is his brother-in-law's. Jack Enright's mistress, a woman with secrets of her own, has been shot to death in the apartment that he pays for. But when the body, moved by London to Central Park, is finally identified, London knows he must act quickly to find her killer, before the killer and the police find him.

Cinderella Sims

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 June 2002

Passport to Peril

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 January 2010

Ariel

by Lawrence Block

Published 15 January 1981

Strange Embrace

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 January 2012

Candy

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 January 2011

Four Lives at the Crossroads

by Lawrence Block

Published 25 June 2016

Broadway Can Be Murder

by Lawrence Block

Published 6 April 2021