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ISBN: 1842430378Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 640pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Pub. Date: January 2004
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lawrence Block was born in Buffalo, New York in 1938. He attended Antioch College in Ohio then went to work in the mailroom of a New York publisher. His first story was published in 1957 and he has gone on to write more than thirty novels and countless stories and articles, not just under his own name but also as Paul Kavanagh. Indeed Lawrence Block has had several pseudonyms having learned his writer's art crafting erotic literature as Andrew Shaw, Sheldon Lord and Jill Emerson!
In 1994 Lawrence Block won the Mystery Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and has also won Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon awards for his work. In 2004 Lawrence Block was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for a lifetime's achievement in crime writing.
During his prolific writing life Lawrence Block has created several popular yet quite distinct character series. His first popular novels featured Evan Tanner, a veteran of the Korean war who doesn't sleep due to shrapnel lodged in his brain. Then there are the 'Burglar' novels featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, a sophisticated New York bookstore owner not averse to a little breaking and entering on the side, with a lesbian sidekick who owns a pet grooming business.
In a darker mode Block's Matt Scudder novels feature a recovering alcoholic whose progress and change is charted over several novels, set in an urban landscape marked by dives, late night bars, clubs, lounges, taverns and gin joints. Private investigator Scudder patrols the decaying inner city and endeavours to keep in check his own inner devils. Other central characters include criminal lawyer Martin Ehrengraf who features in his short stories, a sex-mad teenager called Chip Harrison and a hit man named Keller.
The Affairs of Chip Harrison
by Lawrence Block
by Lawrence Block
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Meet Chip Harrison - hardboiled anti-hero up to his neck in pornography, prostitution and violence. His novels are gathered together here in one volume - a series with a split personality...The first two books, No Score and Chip Scores Again are erotic coming-of-age novels. Then in Make Out With Murder and The Topless Tulip Caper Chip goes to work for Leo Haig, and the books are puzzle mysteries, very much in the manner of Rex Stout.NO SCORE: Chip, alone in the world, seeks to make something of himself and lose his virginity. Hoping to win over the beautiful Francine, Chip Harrison is astonished when an attempt is made on his life, an event that places him at the forefront of a fast-paced investigation.
CHIP HARRISON SCORES AGAIN: Young, broke, and girlless, Chip finds himself on an adventure in South Carolina after stumbling upon a discarded bus ticket. But with Chip's predilection for being where he shouldn't, it's deja vu all over again - spelling trouble for him with a capital T!
MAKE OUT WITH MURDER: Chip must solve the suspicious, untimely deaths of three sisters - one of whom stole his heart. Now he must cozy up to the remaining two, as he investigates some nefarious relatives with money and murder on their minds!
THE TOPLESS TULIP CAPER: Chip finds himself at a Times Square Club waiting for his latest client, a stripper, to finish a night's work. When she completes her set, she introduces him to her roommate, a dancer who's targeted for murder, and killed in the club right before their very eyes! The list of suspects is as long as the line outside the club, and now it will take all of Chip's street smarts to trap a killer!
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
'Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today'
- The Guardian [read the full review]
'For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence Block. He's that good'
- Martin Cruz Smith
'A master of crime fiction'
- Jonathan Kellerman
'Block is one of the best '
- Washington Post
'if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship'
- Vincent Banville, Irish Times
'a supremely seedy stroll through Travis Bickle's scum-ridden streets'
- John Raftery, RTE [read the full review]
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