Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061807184
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.
Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061760315
Book description to come.
Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409138666
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...
Author : Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786481536
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.
Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031613273X
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
Author : James Wesley Rawles
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 0525953906
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.
Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006180939X
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 : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1953368131
Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the
Author : Kei Hamuro
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1642753386
Also known as Tsurezure Biyori, a touching yuri series about two girls falling in love in the Japanese countryside. As children, Koharu and Mafuyu were best buds until Mafuyu moved away to Tokyo. But now, several years have passed and Mafuyu is back, attending the same high school as Koharu. As the two girls explore their sleepy hometown, Koharu can’t help but develop a crush on her childhood best friend...
Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061803987
Book description to come.
