Lawrence Block: One Night Stands and Lost Weekends (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
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 young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history.

One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Master -- an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad.

"ONE OF THE BETTER STORYTELLERS AROUND IN ANY GENRE." -- KANSAS CITY STAR
"ONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED WRITERS OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE FICTION IN AMERICA." -- MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

One of the most widely recognized names in the mystery/suspense genre, LAWRENCE BLOCK is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, a four-time winner of the Edgar and Shamus awards, and a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, England, and Japan.

Contents
Introduction
Part 1: One Night Stands
Introduction: If Memory Serves -- The Bad Night -- The Badger Game -- Bargain in Blood -- Bride of Violence -- The Burning Fury -- The Dope -- A Fire at Night -- Frozen Stiff -- Hate Goes Courting -- I Don't Fool Around -- Just Window Shopping -- Lie Back and Enjoy It -- Look Death in the Eye -- Man with a Passion -- Murder Is My Business -- Nor Iron Bars a Cage -- One Night of Death -- Package Deal -- Professional Killer -- Pseudo Identity -- Ride a White Horse -- A Shroud for the Damned -- Sweet Little Racket -- The Way to Power -- You Can't Lose

Part II: The Lost Cases of Ed London
Introduction: Calling Ed London -- The Naked and the Deadly -- Stag Party Girl -- Twin Call Girls

Lawrence Block: One Night Stands and Lost Weekends. Harper Paperbacks; ISBN: 9780061582141 (November, 2008), 366 p., $14.95.