Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
SHE WAS EVERY MAN'S DREAM -- AND ONE MAN'S NIGHTMARE!
Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work.

Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman's secretary, his lover -- and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she's ready to make him pay...

Johnny Hayden has spent a lifetime working the long con, establishing a deceptive front and stinging a mark big-time. A stretch in prison has made a temporarily honest man out of him, but the prospect of one big score to fund his retirement is too much to resist.

Fans of The Sting will appreciate the rich details of this original scheme, where a man who bought worthless Canadian land -- "moose pasture" -- years ago is now tricked into buying a whole lot more of it. Noir enthusiasts will be absorbed by a swirling plot, with Johnny and Doug and Evelyn caught up in a race nobody can win. And Hard Case Crime collectors will be able to understand why The Girl with the Long Green Heart has been a key entry ever since HCC was launched.

This Classic Crime Library ebook of The Girl with the Long Green Heart contains as a bonus the opening chapter of the next book in the series, The Specialists.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart. LB Productions (The Classic Crime Library), ISBN: 9781524281540 (January, 2016), eBook, 1147 KB (ca. 224 p.), $2.99, £1.99.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
She was every man's dream -- and one man's nightmare.
Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work.

Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman's secretary, his lover -- and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she's ready to make him pay...

Raves for Lawrence Block's first Hard Case Crime novel, GRIFTER'S GAME
"A taut little noir gem... delightfully twisted." -- The Chicago Sun-Times
"The ending is a stunning tour de force." -- The New York Times
"Deliciously pulpy." -- U.S. News & World Report
"[A] lost masterpiece." -- Playboy

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart. She had a Grifter's Soul. Dorchester Publishing / Hard Case Crime, ISBN: 0843955856 (November, 2005), 251 p., $6.99.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
Even before he invented Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block was writing terrific thrillers. This was one of them.

Johnny Hayden and his partner had the perfect scam -- offer a guy a fraction of what he paid for a piece of worthless Canadian land and make it seem like it's only part of a much bigger parcel being assembled. Then get the mark so curious as to why it's suddenly valuable that he'll pay a fortune to own the whole thing. Tricky, but it had to work. It had to, because the other prize was beautiful Evvie, the girl with the long green heart.

LAWRENCE BLOCK is the author of the Edgar Award-winning novel A Dance at the Slaughter House, Such Men Are Dangerous, The Specialists, and Mona.

"Stings like iodine." -- Kirkus Reviews

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786701064 (July, 1994), 160 p., $3.95.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
Even before he invented Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block was writing terrific thrillers. This is one of them.

Johnny Hayden and his partner had the perfect scam - offer a guy a fraction of what he paid for a piece of worthless Canadian land and make it seem like it's only part of a much larger parcel being assembled Then get the mark so curious as to why it's suddenly valuable that he'll pay a fortune to own the whole thing. Tricky, but it had to work. It had to, because the other prize was beautiful Evvie, the girl with the long green heart.

LAWRENCE BLOCK is the author of the popular Chip Harrison, Matthew Scudder, and Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries, as well as the recent collection, Like A Lamb to Slaughter. When he is not conducting his successful writing seminars around the country, Mr. Block lives in New York City.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart. Countryman Press / A Foul Play Press book, ISBN: 0881500429 (May, 1985), 160 p., $3.95.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart (USA 1965)

From the Publisher:
From the top of her beautiful, brilliant head to the pit of her merciless soul, she was filled with larceny...

I'm an old hand at the Big Con myself, I've worked with masters, but l've never seen a grifter yet to match her.

Working a mark together, or playing at intimate games together, she never made a single clumsy move.

I was really in love, and she was too -- with the color of money.

Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart. A Novel. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publ., 1965, Gold Medal Book #k1555, 150 p., ¢40.