One Night Stands and Lost Weekends - Lawrence Block
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Scott Brick
Tags: Suspense, Anthology, Thriller, Adults
Publisher: Books on Tape Release date: November 18, 2008 Duration: 13:05:04, In 1958a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled You Cant 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 Masteran essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad., This collection of 25 short stories and three novellas represents the apprenticeship years of Edgar-winner Lawrence Block, written, as the author explains in the introduction, when my typewriter still had training wheels. The first half of the collection are clich-ridden samples of pulp writing composed by a still-maturing writer., A review - Scott Brick and Mike Chamberlain are unable to help these works. But John H. Mayer, the third of three alternating readers, puts
