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Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenti...

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At approximately eight o'clock private detective Harry Baker stumbled onto something big. At exactly one minute past eight, Baker was dead. The local police had figured that out for themselves. Now they wanted to know the rest from Jeff Lane. But what could Jeff tell them? He had sent Baker to locate his missing step-brother in Caracas. When Baker cabled he had news, Jeff went to Venezuela himself. Now Baker was dead. And, a few days later, so...

The man who was responsible for John Gannon's two suicide attempts arrived at the Seabeach Motel late on a hot Florida afternoon. That night Gannon was killed-after Dave Barnum had strangely passed out at the Club 80. There were motives all over the place, mostly involving money. But then Gannon had been a pretty hard boy: a gambler, a promoter, and more recently in handbooks, and had never lacked enemies.In the beginning Captain Vaughn had co...

Trouble struck the schooner Griselda at 9:40 on an April evening. It was not the fault of the weather or the sea or the soundness of her hull. The trouble was human. A woman. Her name was Julia Parks, though in the beginning she insisted it was Lambert. It was hard to blame Howard Crane for bringing her aboard, because Julia always got what she wanted.What she wanted in this case was money. Keith Lambert's -- her ex-husband's -- money. That th...

Who? Who out of all the men in her past could have hated Frieda enough to kill? With which one had she been the impetuous-and the dangerous-mistress?

LOVED TO DEATH!Actually, she hadn't been worth getting involved with.Yet, the fact remained that a lot of men had. And one of them had been more involved than anyone could know.A cozy, one-bedroom apartment and an engraved anniversary present put George Harmon Coxe's celebrated private detective, Sam Crombie, onto the trail of four men. All had loved the same woman. All had eventually left her. One had left her dead...

Who? Who out of all the men in her past could have hated Frieda enough to kill? With which one had she been the impetuous-and the dangerous-mistress?

Flash Casey snaps a photo that holds the key to a corrupt lawyer's murder Casey shouldn't have had to go back for more pictures of Stanford Endicott. He was at the court with the other newspaper photographers when the wealthy lawyer was arraigned, and got pictures of him smiling as he put on a hat to hide his bald head. But before Casey can get the negatives developed, a pair of urchins steal his camera case and expose the plates to the sun. ...

A double mystery and a triple murder involving something bigger than money, deadlier than passio, and more dangerous than ambition!

A double mystery and a triple murder involving something bigger than money, deadlier than passio, and more dangerous than ambition!