One Night Stands and Lost Weekends

by Lawrence Block

Genres: Suspense

Synopsis

“If there is one crime writer currently capable of matching the legacies of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, it’s Lawrence Block.” –San Francisco Chronicle

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.

“One of the better storytellers around in any genre.” –Kansas City Star


From the Compact Disc edition.

Release date: November 18, 2008

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Print pages: 384