Lawrence Block is in this country to the less well-known American crime writers. This is a shame, because it provides first class products for decades of the harder variety. His stories are original and realistic, and that is a seal of approval, the issue can be the least. Most other authors, one has the impression that they get their ideas from all sources - not only from their own head.
The short story that I want to present here is, "A Bad Night for Burglars" ("A bad night for burglars). They first appeared in 1977 in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
The businessman Arthur Trebizond is a burglar in his House is entered. Trebizond has a gun so he can remove the burglar the crowbar. It developed a call, ask in the Trebizond the intruder what he could still out for stealing. He replies that he very well play chess.
Trebizond calls on the intruder to a game and start playing.
They played in the hall. The burglar took the first game, the white pieces and opened with the king's pawn. He played an imaginative variation on the Spaniards in the sixteenth Abert Trebizond train could win a rook for a knight, and not long after that, on the burglar.
In the second game had the burglar Black replied with Sicilian. He played a version that Trebizond did not know. The game was balanced long time, it was the burglar in the final to make a passed pawn. As was foreseeable that he would turn into a lady, tipped Trebizond to his king and gave up. [1]
When they want to start a third game, Trebizond woman comes through the door. After a brief exchange Trebizond slays them with the crowbar. Then he shoots the burglar with a revolver. He will tell the police later that he had shot the intruder in self-defense after he killed his wife. He was calculating the presence of the intruder to used to conceal the murder of his wife.
The short story is intelligently designed and logically comprehensible. The good representation of the two chess games shows that block in meticulous detail. Although "A Bad Night for Burglars" not to block one of the best stories (Trebizond the motivation to kill his wife, is not worked out), he is a man you can trust.
-------------------- [1] Translated from Lawrence Block: "Enough Rope", 7 HarperCollins, 2003, p. Translation of spray.
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