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but postponing the act and following the team to away games so the hitter can reach the career milestone of 400 home runs). Originally based in New York City, after a disastrous hit gone wrong he later relocates to New
Orleans where he lives under the name "Nicholas Edwards" and marries, has a child
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for decades, setting most of his fiction there, and has come to be very closely associated with the city. He is married to Lynne Block. He has three daughters, Amy
Reichel, Jill Block and Alison Pouliot, from an earlier marriage. With Lynne, he spends much of his time traveling (the two have been to
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meeting. The series was set to end on that note, but an idle promise Block had made to supply an editor friend with an original
Scudder short resulted in "By the Dawn's Early Light", a story set during the character's drinking days, but told from the perspective of a recovering alcoholic. Block
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Ehrengraf Settlement." All eleven were collected and published in an eVolume,
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Block's other major series, humorous and much lighter in tone, relates the misadventures of gentleman burglar Bernie
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Mardell, a hooker from his days on the force, whom he marries several books later. Other fan favorites are 1991's taut, gruesome
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