![]() ![]() Block is an accomplished storyteller, and Matt Scudder is a fine example of hero as human being. Drinking steadily all summer, Scudder accomplishes all of the above, his intuition, doggedness and respect for a higher law sputtering through the alcoholic haze. The real booksas opposed to those shown to the IRSstolen from Skip Devoe's bar must be ransomed, and the masked gunmen who robbed the Morrisey brothers' after-hours place have to be identified. Tommie Tillary, an investment salesman in flashy clothes, whose wife has been murdered in Bay Ridge, needs to be cleared of suspicion. ![]() In the summer of 1975, Matt is busy with assorted favors. ![]() His real home, however, is any one of three or four local bars, and his family are their owners, staff and habitues. Divorced from his wife, who lives with their sons on Long Island, Scudder rooms in a West Side hotel. Scudder is a former New York cop, now an unlicensed private detective who does favors for friends. Featured here is Matt Scudder in his follow-up appearance to Eight Million Ways to Die. The prolific, Edgar Awardwinning Block has written many mysteries, most in assorted series with colorful protagonists. ![]()
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