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

Un clásico viviente de la novela negra

SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR... ...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. 

小說寫作沒有公式。
世上有多少部小說，就有多少種寫法。

Von Willa Cathers Bonmot zu Beginn des Buchs - "Selbst die Bösen bekommen Schlimmeres, als sie verdienen " – bis zum letzten Satz beglückt Block seine Leser wieder einmal mit einem großartig geschriebenen Scudder-Roman. ~Thomas Gaughan, BooklistIm Namen des Volkes ist der dreizehnte Roman mit L...

A deranged derelict, a crazed Vietnam vet, has been arrested for gunning down successful young lawyer Glenn Holtzmann at a corner phone booth on Eleventh Avenue -- and the suspect's brother wants p.i. Matthew Scudder to prove the madman innocent.

Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer.

Tanner takes on jobs for a covert intelligence organization so secret that even those who work for it have no idea who they're working for.

The Master Returns--With Never-Before-Collected Tales of Murder and Desire

When Joyce Kendall arrives in New York, fresh out of Clifton College in Iowa, she has a job and an apartment waiting for her. The job’s as a first reader for Armageddon Publications. The apartment’s at 21 Gay Street, and the small Federal-period house is already home to a lesbian couple, Jean Fitzgerald and Terri Leigh, and an out-of-work newspaperman, Pete Galton.

What’s the autobiography of a prostitute doing in the Collection of Classic Erotica?I asked myself this very question while weighing its suitability for the collection.