- Fiction, Private investigators, Matt Scudder (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #1. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Lawrence Block
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 186
- Publisher
- Sound Library, Curley, Avon Books
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780061185601
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“"He was a big man, about my height with a little more flesh on his heavy frame."”
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