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Matthew Scudder Serie

Questa serie segue un investigatore privato cinico ma di principio che si muove per le strade grintose di New York City mentre lotta con il proprio passato. Ogni caso lo sprofonda ulteriormente nel mondo criminale, confondendo i confini tra giusto e sbagliato. I lettori assistono alla sua incessante ricerca di giustizia, operando spesso al di fuori della legge, e alla sua continua battaglia contro l'alcolismo. È una raccolta di romanzi polizieschi atmosferici e ricchi di suspense con una profonda profondità psicologica.

When The Sacred Ginmill Closes
Eight Million Ways to Die
A Stab in The Dark
In the Midst of Death
Time to Murder and Create
The Sins Of The Fathers

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    The Sins Of The Fathers

    • 160pagine
    • 6 ore di lettura
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    The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson. schovat popis

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    Time to Murder and Create

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    The Spinner was a blackmailer, but that didn't give someone the right to bash his head in and leave him to rot in the river. There are three suspects, all blackmail victims, but which one was desperate enough to silence the Spinner for good?

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    A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

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    Matthew Scudder has left part of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But to prove socialite Richard Thurman arranged the murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife, the tormented p.i. has to sink deeper than he ever has before -- on a terrifying tour of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where an innocent young life is a commodity to be bought, perverted . . . and destroyed.

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    A Walk Among The Tombstones

    • 324pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
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    A ruthless, ingenious pair of entrepreneurial monsters is preying on the loved ones of those who live outside the law. Though he has no love for drug dealers and poison peddlers, ex-cop-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder now must help them put two thrill-kill extortionists out of business--before another drop of innocent blood is spilled.

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    The Devil Knows You're Dead

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    Set in a chaotic city where rules are absent, the story follows unlicensed private investigator Matt Scudder as he delves into the murder of Glenn Holtzmann, a young man killed by a deranged veteran. While some believe Holtzmann's death was a tragic accident, others, including the accused's brother, seek to prove his innocence. As Scudder investigates, he confronts his own moral complexities and dark desires, leading him to unsettling truths that threaten his relationships and sense of self.

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    Una lunga linea di morte

    • 300pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    Un club, a New York, molto riservato... È il "club dei 31", composto da rispettabili cittadini che si ritrovano una sola volta all'anno per celebrare il semplice fatto di essere ancora vivi. Ma a qualcuno tutto questo non piace. Paziente, metodico, implacabile, un assassino si sta accanendo contro i membri della venerabile associazione. Certo, a prima vista nulla sembrerebbe indicare la presenza di un serial killer; eppure, esaminando i fatti più da vicino, molti conti non tornano. Assoldato per scoprire la verità, il detective privato Matthew Scudder inizia così un'inchiesta che ben presto assumerà i contorni di una caccia all'uomo, contro il tempo, prima che l'omicida torni a colpire...

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    Everybody Dies

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    A blistering Matt Scudder novel. Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pals including Mick Ballou - an Irish American who operates more often than not on the wrong side of the law. Mick is worried - a garage full of bourbon has been ripped off and two of his henchman killed in cold blood. Somebody is muscling in on Micks patch and he wants Scudder to look into it. Matt reluctantly agrees to take a look but won't promise a result. On the way home he is attacked by somebody wants him off Mick's case. The following weekend Matt's mentor from AA is shot dead at point blank range when Scudder is in the men's room of the restaurant where the 2 had met for dinner - Matt knows it should have been him. Now the case is personal and no matter that he's warned off by his ex-colleagues in the NYPD and his wife Elaine, this is one he is going to see out to the end.

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    Hope to Die

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    The fifteenth Matt Scudder mystery from NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Lawrence Block. Byrne and Susan Hollander stroll home from a concert on a fine summer's evening in New York. Some hours later, their daughter Kristin arrives home to discover her parents brutally killed and the house ransacked. She also finds she is now a very young millionaire. A few days later the police trace the two killers to an apartment in Coney Island, and both are dead. One killed the other before turning the gun on himself - at least that's the way it looks. So that's another case solved. But for Matt Scudder it's only the beginning. The more he looks into it, the more things look wrong to him. There's a murderer out there, and he's just getting started. Pitted in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Scudder is up against the most resourceful and diabolical killer of his career.

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    All the Flowers Are Dying

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    The latest - brilliant - Matt Scudder novel from award-winning Lawrence Block Matt Scudder - former cop and alcoholic - has had enough. He plans to wind up his investigations and concentrate on AA meetings and his lovely wife, Elaine. But he agrees to take one last case. Louise, a single woman, has finally met a man she likes, but she fears he's keeping something from her and so hires Matt to check him out. But before Matt can track down the real identity of Louise's lover, a horrific murder is committed - and the only forensic evidence links the killer to Elaine. Matt is convinced that the killer is an old foe of his, a man who terrorised and murdered his way through New York until Matt stood in his way. And now he's stalking Elaine...

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