One Night Stands and Lost Weekends - by Lawrence Block (Paperback)

From the Back Cover

In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller--and years before his first Edgar Award--a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history.

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.

Review Quotes

"This collection will delight the prize-winning author's many fans." - Aptos Times (Aptos, CA)
"Well worth resurrecting as the portrait of a self-described 'gormless young man' who grew up to be a killer writer." - Seattle Times
"These early Block writings deftly capture the flavor and attitudes of an era when crime ran rampant in the city....Block is in fine form." - Lansing State Journal
"Tasty like candy and a little addictive." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"This new collection of Block's early stories will delight fans of hard-boiled detective fiction." - Charlotte Observer
"It's interesting to observe his skills progressing and no doubt inspiring to would-be writers....If your taste runs to cheap detectives, cheaper crooks, and D-cup damsels, One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is for you." - Library Journal
"Taut classic hard-boiled noir....Will leave even newcomers hungry for more." - Publishers Weekly