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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Document Outline
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication Page
Epigraph Page
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Lawrence Block
Credits
Copyright Notice
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