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He jumped off the long-distance bus and started a new life in a strange town. Everything was on track: getting a valid ID to prove my identity, having dinner with a beautiful librarian, being recognized for my work and getting a salary increase. Good things come one after another, and he seems to be heading towards the happy life that ordinary people dream of, but at the same time, vague memories of several murder cases appear in his mind... Can he get rid of the black past mixed with alcohol and constant exile; or is abandoning everything and escaping from reincarnation a fate that he cannot break?

Bernie Rodenbarr had many enviable qualities: he was funny, charming and intelligent, loyal, and he also had a special talent and taste for life. Therefore, he is willing to go to any lengths to avenge his friend - to ransack the home of a plastic surgeon, which has little profit, just for fun. However, during the robbery, Bernie broke into another empty door and was forced to hide under the hostess's bed... Soon, Bernie was arrested on suspicion of four murders. This time he faced a more complicated mess than before.

Summary of the main content of "The Thief Who Thinks He's Bogart": There are so many bookstores in so many cities in the world, but she just walked into his. Bernie meets the woman of his dreams in a bookstore, and they begin spending every night together... Well, going to Bogart movies. Bernie can't live by just falling in love, so an eccentric stranger named Hugo? Candermos appears and tells Bernie to steal the folder. It sounds so simple, but Bernie's game is interrupted and Ilona disappears...

"Stab in Darkness" was written five years after "Sins of the Father" was completed, when Matthew Scudder was still an alcoholic and had not yet joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Nine years ago, a crazy ice pick killer stabbed several women in a row and then disappeared. Nine years later, the New York police caught this man by chance. He admitted to all other cases but firmly denied Barbara's death. Barbara's father seeks out Scudder, hoping to find out who killed his daughter. "Memory is a cooperative animal that is very willing to please you. If the supply is not timely, it can often invent one on the spot and then carefully fill in the blanks." This book won the Shamus Award for Novel in 1982.

17 full-color Hopper paintings + 17 short stories by the master of fiction. Lawrence Block was a fan of Edward Hopper. Like the film director Hitchcock, who was also obsessed with Hopper's paintings, he was obsessed with the loneliness and loneliness that penetrated into the bones of Hopper's paintings. Bullock therefore invited 16 contemporary best-selling American novelists, together with himself, to write a short story for each of Hopper's 17 well-known paintings, and compiled a short story collection containing 17 stories.

For 30 years, Tony Leung has dreamed of starring in "Eight Million Ways to Die"! Tony Leung flew half way around the world just to meet the author; he begged for cooperation 4 times just to play the protagonist of this book. Tony Leung once said: "I have read all Lawrence Block's books, and I particularly like Matthew's series." "Eight Million Ways to Die" understands Tony Leung's loneliness so well! "Eight Million Ways to Die" is the masterpiece of Laurence Block, winner of the "Edgar Allan Poe Lifelong Master Award", and is a favorite book collection of cultural elites! Wong Kar-Wai read "Eight Million Ways to Die". He didn't like using scripts, so he invited the author to be the screenwriter of "Blueberry Nights"! Zhu Tianwen read "Eight Million Ways to Die" and flew to New York to re-walk the path taken by the protagonist of the book! Sales are booming in Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Japan and other countries; well-known media such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal unanimously praised it! "Eight Million Ways to Die" is also a work that best understands "urban loneliness", describing the unspeakable loneliness of everyone in the bustling city. There are eight million people in this city and eight million kinds of loneliness. There is always someone willing to listen to your loneliness. In the noisy and lonely New York City, a lonely alcoholic detective. The death of a beautiful woman, a series of murders that no one cared about. A complete drunkenness, a single-handed self-salvation. This naked city has eight million people, eight million stories, and eight million ways to die. In this naked city, people are lonely and addicted, sinking alone, and then at an unknown time, die in one of the eight million ways to die, and are quickly replaced and forgotten. Fortunately, there is always someone who cares about everything about us. "My name is Matt and I have nothing to say."

Will, who claims to be the "will of the people," will first write a letter to Marty McGraw's column in the Daily News, and then use lynching to deal with several villains who cannot be punished by law for the public, including a child killer, a gang boss, a murderer who bombed an abortion clinic, and a black racist. Matthew Scudder's client this time is the lawyer who allowed the child killer to regain his freedom. He is being named by Will, and he will be the next to be executed by the "will of the people"...

"Crimes of the Father" is the debut work of Matthew Scudder, a popular character written by Lawrence Block, the master of American hard-boiled detective novels. The story takes place in New York in the 1970s. A young girl died tragically in a Greenwich Village apartment, and the whole bed turned into a sea of ​​blood. The boy who lived with her rushed to the street covered in blood, was arrested as a murderer, and then committed suicide in prison. The girl's father found Scudder, hoping to know who his daughter was and why she was killed...