- Mystery, Drug traffic, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #10. "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
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Lawrence Block
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc., Mai tian chu ban, Orion Paperbacks
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781857970623
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