Kellers Metier

>hard-boiled<, surreal und schrullig. Keller wächst uns von Story zu Story mehr ans Herz … Im Gegensatz zu Keller, der auf Filme steht, in denen vollkommen klar ist, wer die Guten sind, dürfen sich Blocks Fans glücklich schätzen, ein Buch vor sich zu haben, in dem sich das oft nicht so ohne weiteres sagen lässt." San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as "James M. Cain on Viagra," is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.