A Trawl Among The Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography, 1958-2020

A Trawl Among the Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography, 1958-2020 will delight Lawrence Block's many fans and collectors with its exhaustive and authoritative detailing of his work, much of which will be new to even the most ardent of collectors. And it includes a delightful afterword by Lawrence Block in which he recounts a long-lost and forgotten erotic novel which led to its discovery and documentation in the Bibliography.

Block is one of crime fiction's most popular and honored authors. He's won nearly every conceivable award the mystery field has to offer. A Trawl Among the Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography, 1958-2020 documents the many novels and short stories that have earned him this acclaim, and all of the other publications—memoir, books-for-writers, essays, erotic novels and sexual advice books, nonfiction, and magazine columns—he's written in a career spanning more than 60 years. More than 800 titles in all.

A Trawl Among the Shelves is the most comprehensive and authoritative documentation of Block's writing ever due to his full cooperation with its compilation. He provided essential assistance in identifying long forgotten books, articles and essays. Block is well-known for writing under many pen-names. A Trawl Among the Shelves identifies nearly a dozen previously undocumented pseudonyms used by him early in his career.

Readers will find the definitive listing of Block's erotic paperback novels from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Fans have long sought to sort fact from rumor about the authorship of these highly collectible titles. Block reviewed his files and memory and confirmed his authorship of a dozen Andrew Shaw titles he had long been suspected of having written and rejected a few others. In addition, he recollected several books, articles, essays and columns no one ever suspected existed.

A Trawl Among the Shelves is sure to become the standard bibliographic reference for Lawrence Block's publications and an indispensable guide for fans, collectors and scholars interested in genre literature.