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2023.
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Since the 1970s, Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning novels and short fiction featuring Matthew Scudder. Now, with both himself and his detective half a century older, the author found himself charged with writing a book about his protagonist. And he decided he wasn't the right person for the job. LB: "What was Matt's family like? How did he spend his childhood? What steered him toward the NYPD, and how did he get all the way from the Police...
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Chip Harrison mysteries volume 3
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Here's CHIP HARRISON-the second series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...
How can a series predicated on the hero's sexual innocence survive past a second book? How can our Chip remain the same age forever? Simple, Block decided, and put our Lecher in the Wry to work for a private detective, the remarkable Leo Haig. Haig believes that Nero Wolfe really exists, and that if he distinguishes himself...
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 10
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"Kenan Khoury's wife went out grocery shopping and never came home. Alive, anyway. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a living he can't go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead--an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to bring the brutal killers to justice before another innocent woman falls beneath their knives."--page 4 of cover
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STRANGE EMBRACE started out to be a novel based on Johnny Midnight, a TV series which everyone has long since forgotten.
Except, of course, that nothing manages to be forgotten in the Internet Age. I, whose job it was to knock out 50,000 words of Johnny Midnightish prose and dialogue, had forgotten when it ran and who was in it, but Google took no time at all to remind me that the title role was played by Edmund O'Brien, and that the series ran during...
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Ich begann Mitte der siebziger Jahre damit, über Matthew Scudder zu schreiben. Der erste Roman, »Die Sünden der Väter«, erschien 1975, der 17. und bislang letzte Roman der Reihe, »Ein Tropfen vom harten Zeug«, wurde 2011 veröffentlicht. Im Laufe der Jahre verfasste ich auch elf Kurzgeschichten mit Scudder.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
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New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns with another riveting thriller. Mystery Grandmaster Lawrence Block has enthralled readers for more than three decades with his novels featuring the lovable burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, Keller, and
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