Devil Knows You’re Dead $40.00
New York, NY: William Morrow (1993)
With riveting noir drama and unrelenting suspense, the Edgar Award-winning author of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse creates another compelling Scudder novel. Matt’s investigation into the death of a yuppie lawyer launches him on an unintended voyage of self-discovery.
A Long Line of Dead Men $45.00
New York, NY: Morrow (1994)
Matthew Scudder investigates a secret, private club in Manhattan whose members suddenly start dying, when it becomes obvious that someone is trying to kill them all.
A Walk Among the Tombstones $50.00
New York, NY: Morrow (1992)
When a heroin kingpin’s wife is kidnapped by some bad hombres, he haggles over the ransom and receives her back in pieces, leaving Scudder to track down the killers. By the author of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.
Even the Wicked $35.00
New York, NY: Morrow (1997)
When “Will of the People,” a one man vigilante team and the latest New York serial killer whose victims are evildoers, targets Matthew Scudder’s client, a controversial attorney who turns up dead despite protective measures, Matt reluctantly finds himself embroiled in the search for the murderer.
Sometimes They Bite $50.00
New York, NY: Arbor House (1983)
Stories tell of a clever criminal lawyer, a complex murder plot, an impoverished writer, an ethical hit man, and a man’s attempt to discover, before he dies, the identity of his murderer
Out on the Cutting Edge $50.00
New York, NY: Morrow (1989)
Inscribed
Matthew Scudder combs every lowlife bar in the city, searching for a naive midwestern girl who inadvertently tangled with gangsters
The Burglar in the Rye $40.00
New York, NY: Dutton (1997)
Literary agent Anthea Landau, legendary resident of the Paddington Hotel, is auctioning off her personal correspondence from enigmatic writer Gulliver Fairborn. Her famous ex-client, who guards his private life so jealously that he has never been photographed or interviewed, is reportedly outraged by Landau’s betrayal – yet can’t afford to outbid the collectors who are fighting to get their hands on his letters.
Bernie Rhodenbarr is at the Paddington to make sure they never do. Gully Fairborn is Bernie’s literary idol, so when Fairborn’s ex-lover, Alice Cottrell, asks the bookseller-burglar to help her return the letters to their rightful author, Bernie doesn’t hesitate. He breaks into Anthea Landau’s suite and finds her – dead.
The police burst in, and Bernie takes a fire escape down to an empty room, where he quietly pockets some nice ruby jewelry. Minutes later, he is under arrest. By the time Bernie is bailed out, his bookstore is visited by a host of mysterious folks, all demanding the letters he doesn’t have. That’s when Bernie learns that the gems he does have were heisted the night before he stole them.
Now, to clear his name and right some terrible wrongs, Bernie must solve a murder or two, track down a rival thief, retrieve the missing letters, find the rubies’ rightful owner, and still manage to protect the elusive Gulliver Fairborn…without getting caught.
The Scoreless Thai $50.00
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press (2000)
While searching for a missing chanteuse, who has metamorphosed into an international jewel thief, in Thailand, Evan Tanner finds himself captured by a band of guerillas, rescued by a Thai youth, and on the run from bandits and soldiers, which leads him into the middle of a war.
A Ticket to the Boneyard $40.00
New York, NY: Morrow (1990)
When ex-policeman and recovering alcoholic Matthew Scudder is stalked by a psychotic killer who murders, one by one, Scudders’ friends and acquaintances, his fate hinges on the survival of a glamorous call girl
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse $125.00
New York, NY: Morrow (1991)
Private investigator Matthew Scudder searches for the missing link between two horrific crimes–the rape-murder of wealthy Amanda Thurman and a snuff film involving a young homeless boy
Time to Murder and Create $85.00
Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest (1976)
When a petty thief named “The Spinner” dies a violent death and is found in New York City’s East River, private investigator Matthew Scudder vows to find the killer. By the author of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.
Hope To Die $35.00
New York, NY: William Morrow (2001)
When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths. In spite of himself, Scudder is drawn to the Hollander case. The closer he looks, the more he senses the presence of a third man, a puppet master who manipulated his two accomplices, then cut their strings when he was done with them.The villain who looms in the shadows is one of Block’s most inspired creations, cold and diabolical, murdering for pleasure and profit. Nobody but Scudder even suspects he exists — and he’s not done killing.He’s just getting started….