Lawrence Block
42) Killing Castro
It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it's unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man's library — conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process — Bernie finds he's the cops' prime suspect
...A pair of disaffected Midwestern youths meet, fall in love, and light out on a cross-country killing spree Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. She only wants to be with her man—the first person to ever make her feel special. They set off on
...46) Carla
When a woman from the slums marries a rich man who can't pleasure her, she is driven to hunt for love outside the home
Carla is a beautiful girl. She was plucked from the obscurity of a Polish slum to be the wife of a wealthy man—a man who seemingly gives her everything a wife could want. Except the one thing that she needs most: the pleasure she burns for while he snores beside her, the passion that only a lover can give.
But adultery
...A prostitute and an AWOL air force cadet fall in love and try to build a new life in New York City—but they will turn against each other when another man enters the picture It started out innocently enough. Disowned by her God-fearing parents, Honour Mercy Bane takes up a new name—Honey—and a new profession as a prostitute. After just two weeks' work she falls for Richie, a skinny little virgin who's gone AWOL from air force training
...Trying to put her wild past behind her, a young woman struggles to be the perfect wife—and teaches her husband the pleasures of being bad Andrea Kleinman is getting married, and her life is going to change. It has to, because for Mrs. Benstock to be perfect, she's going to have to forget all about Miss Kleinman—the wild young girl who rushed straight from Bryn Mawr to the West Village, where easy love and free-flowing liquor sent her
...50) Candy
When a married businessman falls for a small-town minx, his obsessive love will spur him to give up anything to have her
Jeff Flanders has a nice little job, a nice little wife, and absolutely nothing to get excited about. All that goes down the drain when he meets Candy, a small-town girl who looks as sweet as her name, but is bitter to the core. She offers him her body—the best he's ever seen—for the bargain price of $1,000, and
...A hack writer struggles to restart his career after a love affair turned frigid sends him into an alcoholic tailspin
Dan Larkin is a hack writer who has always found it easy to churn out scripts, empty bottles, and bed young women. But he meets his match in Allison—a natural blonde who can feel no pleasure. When the sting of unrequited love makes writing impossible, Dan goes into a tailspin that leaves him broke, fired from his job at a
...Four women are trapped in suburbia, bored and eager for their next torrid affair Roz is left unfulfilled each day when her husband sets off for work. So is Maggie, whose frustration with her own marriage sends her looking for comfort in the beds of other men. And as Elly waits patiently for a handsome and willing deliveryman to appear on her doorstep, Nan picks up the phone to arrange her next scandalous tryst. For in this picturesque suburb, once
...54) Campus Tramp
When Linda Shepard arrives on the Clifton College campus, she's a virgin with a mission: the next man she meets will be her first As Linda's college dalliances lead to another and another, the polite coed from Shaker Heights acquires quite the reputation. As her highly erotic encounters take her from guy to guy to gal, she realizes that her lust is getting out of control. Can she find her way back from being the campus tramp before it's too late?
...An aspiring gigolo takes to crime to better his position in life
Johnny Wells is a boy with goals. Not noble ones, perhaps, but, still, he has ambition. He intends to be the best damn hustler New York has ever seen. He wants sharp suits, rich food, and high-class women who pay to take him home. He has the looks; he has the charm. But he needs cash to get started.
An easy mark gives him the opportunity. He runs his usual game, charming his way
...Writing lessons from the crown prince of suspense For more than five decades, Lawrence Block has written novels. He has produced hard-boiled detective stories, taut suspense thrillers, literature, and erotica, and has succeeded in all these genres because he knows how to grab a reader with an opening line, and how to tighten that grip until the final sentence. In Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print, Block offers neither tricks nor formulas, but
...One girl's journey toward sexual freedom amidst the wild days and nights of the Village Jan Marlowe's a sweet young thing fresh off the bus from Indiana. But she has a secret: women make her hot. Spending a summer on the steamy streets of Greenwich Village, this square sets out to unleash her passion. But it isn't just women who take up with this country girl. Mike, a sensitive young folksinger, can't get his mind off Jan, even as she rebuffs him
...59) Threesome
There's more than one side to every story—especially in a threesome Harry, Priss, and Rhoda have a brilliant idea. They're going to write the best "bad" novel and they'll each contribute one third of the story. But what to write about? How about their unusual arrangement? And so this tale of steamy liaisons begins, as Harry and his wife, Priss, welcome randy divorcée Rhoda into their lives—and their bedroom. And so the three adventurers
...60) Thirty
The titillating diary of a housewife gone wild Turning twenty-nine years old, Janet Giddings Kurland starts a journal and records her comfortable, if boring, suburban lifestyle. But when this square sneaks a screw with her friend's husband, she starts down a path that will lead her to the hip streets of Greenwich Village. Amidst the sexually free, Janet blossoms and her housewife's journal turns into a sex diary filled with raunchy encounters,
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