Matthew Scudder mysteries
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
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The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1991, c1976
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Hired by small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon to find Jablon's killer after he is murdered, Matt Scudder, an ex-cop-turned-private eye confronts The Spinner's most dangerous enemies
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 3
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p2000, c1976
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Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious D.A. about police corruption. Now he's accused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn't think Broadfield's a killer, but the cops aren't about to help the unlicensed P.I. prove it -- and they may do a lot worse than just get in his way.
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A stab in the dark , Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 4
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 6
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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.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
1995
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This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams.
Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best-and now the ex-cop-turned-P.I. is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the...
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[1990]
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When ex-policeman and recovering alcoholic Matthew Scudder is stalked by a psychotic killer who murders, one by one, Scudders' friends and acquaintances, his fate hinges on the survival of a glamorous call girl
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Pub. Date
2000
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A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home -- and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted P.I. must descend into the depths of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where young lives are commodities to be bought, perverted... and destroyed.
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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. 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.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 11
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Matt Scudder finds himself caught up in a web of deceit and treachery when he comes to the aid of a homeless man charged with the brutal death of a yuppie lawyer. As Matt investigates, he discovers the victim was a federal informant who may have been eliminated as an act of revenge.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 12
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In New York, members of a private diner's club begin to be murdered one by one and there is nothing to go on, no obvious motive and nothing the victims had in common. PI Matthew Scudder is hired to find the killer. By the author of The Devil Knows You're Dead.
13) Even the wicked
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[1997]
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A New York killer who signs himself as Will of the People is murdering criminals who have escaped punishment through technicalities of the law. PI Matt Scudder goes after him. By the author of A Long Line of Dead Men.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
c1998
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Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.
Then all hell breaks loose.
Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question....
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2001.
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Matthew Scudder, ex-cop, ex-alcoholic, and unlicensed private detective, must draw on all his skills and imagination to find the vicious killer responsible for the robbery and murders of a wealthy couple in an Upper West Side brownstone.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
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As private investigator Matthew Scudder contemplates retirement, he takes on a case for a friend who wants a background check on his daughter's suitor and finds himself menaced by a killer from the past.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
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After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
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2013
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Lawrence Block’s seventeen Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and here is volume two which includes the following stories: Looking for David, Let’s Get Lost, A Moment of Wrong Thinking, Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen, and One...
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2019
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MATT SCUDDER RETURNS. More than 40 years after his debut and nearly a decade since his last appearance, one of the most renowned characters in all of crime fiction is back on the case in this major new novella by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block. Well past retirement age and feeling his years-but still staying sober one day at a time-Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last...
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The autobiography of Matthew Scudder
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