Lawrence Block: Sometimes They Bite (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
THEY MAY NOT LOOK DANGEROUS, BUT...
Look again. And listen closely, as an unwelcomed visitor shares terrifying secrets with a stranger at an isolated fishing hole. Observe two men who concoct a convoluted Hitchcockian murder plot... only to discover death is far more gruesome and permanent than it appears on-screen. Pay close attention when an aspiring assassin has a close encounter with his idol. And say hello to a lethally enterprising young lady who meets her match sometime after midnight. But don't turn your back on any of them, because...

SOMETIMES THEY BITE
Edgar Award-winner Lawrence Block at his sinister best-18 tantalizing tales of drifters, grifters and sweet revenge that are at once darkly comic, chillingly clever... and sharp as a razor's edge.

"ONE OF THE VERY BEST WRITERS NOW WORKING THE BEAT" -- The Wall Street Journal
"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, author of Polar Star

Lawrence Block: Sometimes They Bite. 18 Murderous Tales... With Teeth! Avon Books, ISBN: 0380715759 (October, 1992), 285 p., $4.99.

Lawrence Block: Sometimes They Bite (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Matthew Scudder, the down-but-not-out detective... Martin Ehrengraf, the lawyer who never loses a case... A terrorist who learns all about terror... A writer who earns $1000 a word... and a fisherman who never misses a meal...

All these and more, for the first time in one exciting collection by the modern master of suspense, LAWRENCE BLOCK.

"Block is an enormously entertaining writer." -- Publishers Weekly
"Takes our imagination where it fears to tread." -- Memphis Press-Scimitar

DON'T MISS THE OTHER MATT SCUDDER THRILLERS --
A STAB IN THE DARK
THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
IN THE MIDST OF DEATH
TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE

Lawrence Block: Sometimes They Bite. Nonstop Suspense by the Modern Master. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515083704 (May, 1984), 285 p., $2.95.

Lawrence Block: Sometimes They Bite (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
The highly applauded author of the Matthew Scudder suspense thrillers, including the most recent Eight Million Ways to Die ("First-rate in all the ways I remember how to count" -- John Leonard, New York Times; "It really is a hell of a book" -- Stephen King) would now like you to meet:

• a fisherman who never misses a meal
• a lawyer who never loses a case
• a terrorist who learns all about terror
• a writer who earns $1000 a word
• a hit man with a keen sense of ethics
• a man who can't die until he solves his own murder... plus some charming burglars, whimsical murderers and unlikely heroes (including Matthew Scudder himself in a rewarding appearance).

All play their parts in this masterful volume. Sometimes they are the stuff of laughter, sometimes they throw a scare into the unwary and sometimes... let there be fair warning... sometimes they bite.

LAWRENCE BLOCK is the author of, most recently, Eight Million Ways to Die, as well as A Stab in the Dark and Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, all published by Arbor House. He makes his home in Brooklyn, New York.

Lawrence Block: Sometimes They Bite. Nonstop Suspense by the Modern Master. Arbor House, ISBN: 0877954852 (July, 1983), 285 p., $14.50.