No Exit Press - The Affairs of Chip Harrison by Lawrence Block

ABOUT THE BOOK

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]