When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061983845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
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.

When The Sacred Ginmill Closes

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1409130126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
A superb thriller from the writer of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. Scudder is a witness to a heist in an illegal drinking den, and the owners would like him to find the culprits, while another witness wants him to investigate the murder of his wife.

Eight Million Ways to Die

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780380715732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
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.

Time to Murder and Create

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061807125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Small-time stoolie, Jake " The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients", he figured, the more money -- and more people eager to see him dead. So no one is surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in.And what's worse, no one cares -- except Matthew Scudder. The ex-cop-turned-private-eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job after all -- and Scudder's been paid to find a killer -- by the victim...in advance.

The Devil Knows You're Dead

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006180939X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book 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.

Walk Among the Tombstones

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061760315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Book description to come.

The Sins Of The Fathers

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1409138666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
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...

A Stab in the Dark

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061803987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
Book description to come.

A Drop of the Hard Stuff

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031613273X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's world may lead him right back to the bar stool. In a novel widely celebrated by critics and readers, Lawrence Block circle back to how it all began, reestablishing the Matthew Scudder series as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction. "Right up there with Mr. Block's best . . . A Drop of Hard Stuff keeps us guessing." -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

Sinner Man

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1785650025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS! To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?