A collection of idiosyncratic stories features the author s dark sense of humor and introduces a cast of sharply defined characters. By the author of A Walk Among the Tombstones. 25，000 first printing.

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1993