Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061807184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
A Ticket to the Boneyard
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061807184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061807184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Walk Among the Tombstones
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061760315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Book description to come.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Booze and the Private Eye
Author: Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.
Expatriates
Author: James Wesley Rawles
Publisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 0525953906
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A survivalist thriller follows the efforts of two American expat families to survive in the midst of a global economic collapse marked by the powerful rise of a radicalized Islamic government.
Publisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 0525953906
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A survivalist thriller follows the efforts of two American expat families to survive in the midst of a global economic collapse marked by the powerful rise of a radicalized Islamic government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Burglars Can't Be Choosers
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060582553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer. Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060582553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer. Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?
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.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061803987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Book description to come.