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Book The Devil Knows You re Dead

Download or read book The Devil Knows You re Dead written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Devil Knows You re Dead   a Matthew Scudder Novel

Download or read book The Devil Knows You re Dead a Matthew Scudder Novel written by Lawrence Block and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devil Knows You re Dead

Download or read book The Devil Knows You re Dead written by Lawrence Block and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detective Matthew Scudder ventures into the dark and dangerous alleys of Hell's Kitchen to track the killer of a yuppie lawyer.

Book Walk Among the Tombstones

Download or read book Walk Among the Tombstones written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.

Book When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

Download or read book When the Sacred Ginmill Closes written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.

Book A Long Line Of Dead Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Block
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-10-20
  • ISBN : 1409138631
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book A Long Line Of Dead Men written by Lawrence Block and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Lawrence Block. In Manhattan thirty-one men have been meeting annually for years. Their private club meets only to record the passage of time and give toast to the joys of life. But suddenly they are dying at an alarming rate and one of their number begins to suspect that something more than bad luck is at work. For private eye Matt Scudder, the case is one of the most baffling he's faced. Can the deaths really be a bizarre series of suicides and violent accidents? Or is there is a pattern behind the random play of tragedy? Is there a murderer at work and can he be stopped before the victims run out?

Book The Night and the Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Block
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09-30
  • ISBN : 9781645240273
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Night and the Music written by Lawrence Block and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his debut in 1976 in The Sins of the Fathers, Matthew Scudder has been universally acclaimed as one of the finest creations not just of MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's esteemed career but of the mystery genre as a whole. The star of 17 novels, two feature films, a graphic novel and most recently a standalone novella from Subterranean Press (A Time to Scatter Stones). Scudder is a brilliant creation whose humanity and painful struggle for redemption have given him a life beyond the page and a permanent place in millions of readers' hearts. In The Night and the Music, Lawrence Block has compiled all of Scudder's shorter cases into one volume, from the Edgar Award-winning "By the Dawn's Early Light" (inspiration for the novel many consider the best in the series, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes) and the Shamus Award-winning "The Merciful Angel of Death" to the two substantial novelettes -- "Out the Window" and "A Candle for the Bag Lady" -- that kept the character alive after the first three novels fell victim to their publisher's dire straits. Also included is the nostalgic "One Last Night at Grogan's," written especially for this collection. In the pantheon of crime fiction, Matthew Scudder has earned a place alongside iconic figures such as Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Lew Archer. This exceptional volume will remind you why.

Book A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

Download or read book A Dance at the Slaughterhouse written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no accolade or major mystery award that has not already been bestowed upon Lawrence Block. His acclaimed crime novels are asintelligent, provocative, and emotionally complex as they are nerve-tighteningly intense. And perhaps the most respected of his myriad works are the Matthew Scudder books -- masterworks of suspenseful invention featuring a remarkable protagonist rich in conscience and character, with all the flaws that his humanity entails. This is the detective novel as high art. A Dance At The Slaughterhouse In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths. Because this investigation is leading Scudder on a frightening grand tour of New York's sex-for-sale underworld -- where an innocent young life is simply a commodity to be bought and perverted ... and then destroyed.

Book A Long Line of Dead Men

Download or read book A Long Line of Dead Men written by Lawrence Block and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Scudder's latest case involves a secret Manhattan club whose purpose is to record the passage of time and celebrate. But then the members start to die. By the author of 'The devil knows you're dead'.

Book Even The Wicked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Block
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-05-12
  • ISBN : 1409124975
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Even The Wicked written by Lawrence Block and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addictive Matt Scudder thriller. Matt Scudder is drawn into the case of a serial killer targeting criminals who the law cannot touch. The Will of the People, egged on by a vitriolic newspaper columnist, kills a sex offender, a mobster and a racist cult leader, despite their seemingly impenetrable security. Then Scudder gets a call from a hot-shot attorney, the recipient of the Will's latest letter...

Book Cracking the Hard Boiled Detective

Download or read book Cracking the Hard Boiled Detective written by Lewis D. Moore and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s--a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances. Though a relatively recent arrival, the hard-boiled detective has undergone steady development and assumed diverse forms. This critical study analyzes the character of the hard-boiled detective, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It follows change in the novels through three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; the Transitional, evident by 1964 in the works of John D. MacDonald and Michael Collins, and continuing to around 1977 via Joseph Hansen, Bill Pronzini and others; and the Modern, since the late 1970s, during which such writers as Loren D. Estleman, Liza Cody, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton and many others have expanded the genre and the detective character. Themes such as violence, love and sexuality, friendship, space and place, and work are examined throughout the text. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book The Sins Of The Fathers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Block
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-10-20
  • ISBN : 1409138666
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Sins Of The Fathers written by Lawrence Block and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson. A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell. As far as the NYPD is concerned, the case is closed. But ex-cop Matt Scudder, is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. And suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly, the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins...

Book 21st Century Homestead  Urban Agriculture

Download or read book 21st Century Homestead Urban Agriculture written by Douglas Waterford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21st Century Homestead: Urban Agriculture contains everything you need to stay up to date on urban agriculture

Book Eight Million Ways to Die

Download or read book Eight Million Ways to Die written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also—and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town—some quick and brutal ... and some agonizingly slow.

Book A Season in Purgatory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominick Dunne
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2012-02-22
  • ISBN : 0307815129
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book A Season in Purgatory written by Dominick Dunne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without guilt, without shame, and without ever paying the price. They were the Bradleys, America's royalty. But an outsider refuses to play his part. And now, the day of reckoning has arrived. Praise for A Season in Purgatory “Highly entertaining.”—Entertainment Weekly “Stunning.”—Liz Smith “Compelling.”—New York Daily News “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times “Potent characterization and deftly crafted plotting.”—Publishers Weekly

Book A Ticket to the Boneyard

Download or read book A Ticket to the Boneyard written by Lawrence Block and published by Avon. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle...and then to the boneyard.

Book Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.