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Author
Series
Matthew Scudder ; 7
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Scudder haunts the cold trail of a lost ingenue and finds love and death in all the wrong places in New York's Hell's Kitchen. Sequel to: When the sacred ginmill closes.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A deranged derelict, a crazed Vietnam vet, has been arrested for gunning down successful young lawyer Glenn Holtzmann at a corner phone booth on Eleventh Avenue -- and the suspect's brother wants P.I. Matthew Scudder to prove the madman innocent. But Scudder's curiosity and dedication are leading him to dark, unexplored places in his own heart...and to passions and secrets that could destroy everything be loves.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. Matthew Scudder, ex-cop and ex-boozer, has been asked to investigate a baffling thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this select group of gentlemen. He finds too many secrets, too many places for a maddeningly patient serial killer to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, executing those he fees deserve to die. He calls himself "The Will of the People"-an ingenious serial killer who announces his specific murderous intentions to the media before carrying through on his threats....
13) Everybody dies
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
PI Matt Scudder sets out to learn who is trying to kill Mick Ballou, a gangster who is his friend and who has become the object of several assassination attempts. A dangerous assignment as Scudder himself becomes a target.
Author
Series
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious D.A. about police corruption. Now he's accused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn't think Broadfield's a killer, but the cops aren't about to help the unlicensed P.I. prove it -- and they may do a lot worse than just get in his way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Block's 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world.
But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and it's all here, from a pair of late-70s novelettes (Out the Window and A Candle for the Bag Lady) through By the Dawn's Early Light (Edgar) and The Merciful Angel of Death (Shamus), all the way to One Last Night at Grogan's, a moving and elegiac story never before published. It was short fiction that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Well past retirement age and feeling his years--but still staying sober one day at a time--Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get...
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