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    Enough Rope

    By Lawrence Block

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    Enough Rope, a collection of superb stories, establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of contemporary Grand Master Lawrence Block.

    Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and the disarming duo of Chip Harrison and Leo Haig. Here, too, are Keller, the wistful hit man, and the natty attorney Martin Ehrengraf. Keeping them company are dozens of other refugees from Block's dazzling imagination, all caught up in more ingenious plots than you can shake a blunt instrument at.

    Half a dozen of Block's stories have been short-listed for the Edgar Award, and three have won it outright. All the tales in Block's three previous collections are here, along with two dozen new stories. Some will keep you on the edge of the chair. Others will make you roll on the floor laughing. Enough Rope is an essential volume for Lawrence Block fans, and a dazzling introduction for others to the wonderful world of Block magic!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061802690
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    Lawrence Block

    Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association—only the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler.

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    • 3/5
      Make sure you know what you are getting into if you read this book. I would say over half of it was previously printed in other Block short story collections. It was still a good book but it is huge and if you have desire to reread previous stories, then you can skip this book.

      The new stuff was good but I am not sure it alone was worth have to deal with this giant book. If you want all of your Block in one spot, then this is the book for you. I gave it 3 stars only because of the amount of reprints. The stories are great, I had just read a lot of them already.
    • 4/5
      Lawrence Block writes an entertaining story, and this anthology collects a bunch of them -- 84 short stories. Some are built around characters from different series of novels, including Matt Scudder, an ex-police detective with a heart of gold, and Bernie Rhodenbarr, a cat burglar who find himself in the middle of murders that he has to solve to save himself. This is a book to acquire and dip into as the mood strikes; it's just way too much to read straight through, particularly because many of the stories are deeply twisted, with truly anti-heroic protagonists. That's true for a number of the one-off stories; it's particularly true for the Martin Ehrengraf stories (10 appear in this collection), about a defense attorney whose clients are never guilty, or at any rate are never found guilty, which means they couldn't have been, right? The effect is a character who is charming, appealingly clever, probably psychopathic, and more than a little Mephistophelean in his dealings with his clients - but you can never be quite sure. It's remarkable, but a little goes a long way.