One Night Stands and Lost Weekends: Crime Fiction and Suspense Novelettes from the Budding Master's Era

By Lawrence Block

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006158214X
• ISBN13: 9780061582141
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Great pulp

Great example of vintage pulp writing. The shorts get repetitive if you read them one after another, but they were never intended to be read that way. The Lost Cases of Ed London really stand out as classic hard-boiled detective writing. This is a character I would love to see Block revive.