by Lawrence Block (Author)
The Spinner is dead, bashed on the head and left to rot in a river. One of his three blackmail victims must have been the killer - Scudder is determined to nail them. Henry Prager has paid enough for the sins of his daughter, and begs Scudder not to destroy his shaky business or the fragile girl's reformed life. Beverly Etheridge cheerfully admitted all the sex acts Scudder had seen in the photos and she promises to show him a few more. Theodore Huysendahl offers Scudder enough money to choke even a blackmailer's greed, a proposition no sane man would turn down. Scudder's code of honour demands that one of them will pay...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 06 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 1857994140
ISBN 13: 9781857994148
Book Overview: The second Matt Scudder Mystery now in b-format paperback for the first time First rate fiction from a Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster - his novels have won fourteen awards for crime fiction The Matthew Scudder novels are amongst the finest detective books penned in this century Jonathan Kellerman Block's Matthew Scudder books are as enjoyably readable as any in the genre Los Angeles Times Scudder...continues to be one of the most interesting private investigators on the fiction scene The Wall Street Journal