Two innocents fall prey to a woman whose beauty bewitches—and destroys

Un jour de la fin des années 60, alors qu’il émerge difficilement d’une sérieuse cuite,

“Adoro la serie di Matthew Scudder, e adoro queste storie brevi.”--Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, I dieci libri più amati del 2011

Nach der Sperrstunde ist der sechste Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur Matthew Scudder.

:A gym rat, a businessman, and a deadly deal, as only Lawrence Block can serve it up.

這一天，羅登拔的二手書店裡出現一個神秘訪客，他高價雇用羅登拔去一間博物館偷《班傑明的奇幻旅程》的原稿。

In seinem elften Abenteuer wagt sich Matt Scudder wieder einmal in düstere Gefilde vor. Dazu einige Pressestimmen:Es bedarf der sicheren Hand eines coolen Profis wie Lawrence Block, um den hektischen Puls einer Stadt wie New York City einzufangen. Scudder schleppt einigen persönlichen Ballast mit ...

From Publishers Weekly:

“Standouts include Dennis Lehane’s gilt-edged chiller, ‘A Bostonian (in Cambridge),’ in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale’s ‘The Skull Collector,’ a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg’s ‘Lost Shows,’ a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has turned his Hollywood home into a mausoleum of lost dreams.”

Matthew Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.

Bernie occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer.

Tanner's in Thailand with a partially baked plan and a butterfly net, hoping to snare a beautiful missing chanteuse who's metamorphosed into an international jewel thief.

Keller on the Spot is the eighth story about Keller, your basic Urban Lonely Guy and wistful assassin for hire.