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GRIFTER’S GAME by Lawrence Block: As a first entry in the Hardcase Crime Series, it would have been hard to pick a better story. Block’s Joe Marlin is a grifter who spends his days skipping out on hotel bills and double-crossing gold-diggers. He makes a practice of stealing checked luggage to use to check into his next hotel (after all we must look respectable), but this bag contains a huge cache of heroin. Later that same night he meets Mona Brassard and to his chagrin eventually finds that Mona and the heroin are connected, in a way than spells danger to Marlin. Classic writing, a good story, and an awesome cover. Anyone who cut their teeth on pulps should love this series.

Lawrence Block is always an interesting writer. His books deal with grifters and conmen, always entertaining and suspenseful. I enjoyed this one very much.

Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off gullible women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard - and found himself holding a stolen stash of raw heroin. Now Joe's got to pull off the most dangerous con of his career. One that will leave him either a killer - or a corpse. From the Hard Case Crime Series

one of my favorites. early block. noir. great.