One Night Stands and Lost Weekends
by Lawrence Block
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"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"--Page 4 of cover.Tags
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Maybe three stars. Benefit of the doubt. Slightly above average noir pulp hack work by a young Block. Funny and brutal at the same time (if that makes any sense) and definitely not politically correct as far as rape is concerned. The Ed London stories are average "dame and drink" private dick stuff and a few of the individual stories strike a chord.
I love the Bernie the burglar series, but I couldn't even finish this collection of short stories. That all have basically the same plot.
The Ed London stories were good, the other shorts got kind of repetitive
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Lawrence Block is the author of the popular series' featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, and Chip Harrison. Over 2 million copies of Lawrence Block's books are in print. He has published articles and short fiction in American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, GQ, and The New York Times, and has published several collections of short fiction in show more book form, most recently Collected Mystery Stories. Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times, the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe award. In France, he was proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has been awarded the Societe 813 trophy twice. Block was presented with the key to the city of Muncie, Indiana, and is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America. (Bowker Author Biography) Lawrence Block is the author of the popular series featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, and Chip Harrison. Over 2 million copies of Lawrence Block's books are in print. Lawrence Block has won the Edgar Award three times, the Shamus Award four times, the Maltese Falcon Award twice, and was named Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- To the gormless young man who wrote these stories and the hapless editors who bought them
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