The Burglar on the Prowl
t h e a d v e n t u r e s o f e va n t a n n e r The Thief Who Couldn’t Sleep • The Canceled Czech • Tanner’s Twelve Swingers • Two for Tanner • Tanner’s Tiger • Here Comes a Hero • Me Tanner, You Jane • Tanner on Ice t h e a f fa i r s o f c h i p h a r r i s o n No Score • Chip Harrison Scores Again • Make Out with Murder •
The Topless Tulip Caper
k e l l e r ’ s g r e a t e s t h i t s Hit Man • Hit List
o t h e r n o v e l s
After the First Death • Ariel • Cinderella Sims • Coward’s Kiss •
Deadly Honeymoon • The Girl with the Long Green Heart •
Grifter’s Game • Not Comin’ Home to You • Random Walk •
Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man • Small Town • The Specialists •
Such Men Are Dangerous • The Triumph of Evil •
You Could Call It Murder
c o l l e c t e d s h o r t s t o r i e s Sometimes They Bite • Like a Lamb to Slaughter • Some Days You Get the Bear • Ehrengraf for the Defense • One Night Stands •
The Lost Cases of Ed London • Enough Rope b o o k s f o r w r i t e r s
Writing the Novel from Plot to Print • Telling Lies for Fun & Profit •
Write for Your Life • Spider, Spin Me a Web a n t h o l o g i e s e d i t e d
Death Cruise • Master’s Choice • Opening Shots • Master’s Choice 2 •
Speaking of Lust • Opening Shots 2 • Speaking of Greed •
Blood on Their Hands • Gangsters Swindlers Killers & Thieves
Credits
Jacket photograph by Douglas Whyte
Designed by Deborah Glasserman
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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All the flowers are dying / Lawrence Block.—1st ed.
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