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Title: The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0-380-76363-X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Scudder's debut is a bit tame
Comment: In the mid-1970s, P.I. Matthew Scudder was a lot differnt than the man he would come to be. In his series debut, Scudder has not yet admitted that he has an alcohol problem. Lawrence Block introduces us to the man who quit the NYPD because he just wasn't up to being a cop anymore. Scudder's first case (literary case, anyway) is fairly conventional by the standards of the series. Scudder is hired by the estranged father of a murdered girl not to find the killer, who is already dead, but so the father can begin to understand her life. The story is brief, clocking in at only 186 easy to read pages in trade paperback form. It has little of the narrative complexity that would later serve Block so well. And, you can see the ending coming well before it gets there. Nevertheless, it is still stylish noir with the right mixture of loniliness, cynicism and despair. And as with all Scudder novels, the actual violence is kept to a relative minimum. Overall, not Scudder's best but worth it for fans of the series.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first of 14 in the Matthew Scudder series...a winner!
Comment: .Matthew Scudder is Lawrence Block's remarkable private investigator. He's a former NYPD detective who left the force after an accident left a child dead in a crossfire. Because he is unlicensed you can't "hire" him. Instead he does you a favor by taking your case and solving the crime. In exchange for the favor the client returns the favor by giving him some cash. Scudder is an alcoholic. Rarely do you find him without a drink in has hand or at one of has favorite watering holes. "Sins of the Fathers" is the first in a series of books about Matthew Scudder. There are about a fourteen others as of this writing. Scudder is hired by a father to look into the murder of his daughter. The assignment is not to solve the crime because the girl's gay roommate has been arrested and was found dead in his cell. He has hung himself and this "proves" he did it. But did he really? We find the daughter is a hooker and was loved like a sister by the alleged killer. So who did it? Makes exciting can't put the book down reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Alcohol attracts depressives
Comment: Matt Scudder is still drinking in this yarn. He is an ex-cop and is not a licensed private investigator. He does favors for people. A father wants him to find out why his daughter died. He had not been in contact with her for three years. Scudder is no longer a police officer because he has lost faith. A ricochet bullet targeted at miscreants killed an innocent child.
Reviewing the records with the help of his police contacts, Matt concludes that it seems to be case of a murder suicide, the suicide taking place while the murderer was in custody. The persons involved in the crime were roommates. Richard Vanderpoel was a minister's son. He was employed as a clerk in the antiques business. Scudder sees the attorney who visited Richard at the Tombs. Richard's father is tall and rail thin.
Scudder arranges to see a former roommate of the victim. The victim, Wendy, is described as having a little girl quality. Both Richard and Wendy played out patterns in life representing relationships with and the loss of parents.
Scudder books depict the consequences of caring about people's fate too much. What results is a sense of exhaustion, a sense of loss. This volume follows the pattern.
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Title: Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380763656 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: In the Midst of Death by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380763621 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380715740 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Out on the Cutting Edge: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380709937 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Eight Million Ways To Die by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380715732 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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