The Night and the Music - Lawrence Block [0]
~Philadelphia Inquirer
“One of the very best writers now working the beat. Block has done something new and remarkable with the private-eye novel.”
~Wall Street Journal
“Block’s prose is as smooth as aged whiskey.”
~Publishers Weekly
“One of the most complex and compelling heroes in modern fiction. Thrillers don’t get better than this.”
~San Diego Union-Tribune
“After twenty-five years in the business, Matt Scudder still strolls New York’s mean streets as if he had personally laid the cobblestones.”
~Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
“Matthew Scudder is the kind of mystery anti-hero who turns mere readers into series addicts.”
~Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Much more than a mystery. A book about men, about booze, about New York, by one of the surest, most distinctive voices in American fiction.”
~Martin Cruz Smith
“Scudder is an original and these pages ring with all the authenticity of a blast from a .38.”
~Anniston Star
“Blocks characters, the bar-flies and the cops, are as much flesh and blood as any mystery writer’s working today.”
~Greensboro News and Record
“Consistently tasty and surprising, full of smart, ringing dialogue and multiple textures. If you prefer true grit, Matt Scudder’s your man.”
~Seattle Times
“One of the most hackneyed phrases that reviewers can use is to compare a writer to Chandler or Hammett. Perhaps the time has come to change that benchmark to include Lawrence Block.”
~Book Page
“Block is a rarity, a craftsman who writes about the sleazier aspects of life with style, compassion and wit.”
~Denver Post
The Matthew Scudder Stories
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The Night and The Music - The Matthew Scudder Stories
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Growing Up With Matt Scudder
by Brian Koppelman
Out the Window
A Candle for the Bag Lady
By the Dawn’s Early Light
Batman’s Helpers
The Merciful Angel of Death
The Night and the Music
Looking for David
Let’s Get Lost
A Moment of Wrong Thinking
Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen
One Last Night at Grogan’s
About These Stories…
Contact Lawrence Block
an appreciation by Brian Koppelman
Right around the time I turned fourteen,