Father's sin

Author: Block
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: I have always wanted to step into her life, but instead, I keep facing her death again and again. The master of the hardboiled detective novel in today's Western world, his works are beloved by many fans and elite collectors. Lawrence Block is the grandmaster of the detective novel world, and the Matthew Scudder series is the best detective novel of this century. –PrivateEyes
Reading Matthew Scudder, I felt like I had to finish it all at once, just like reading martial arts novels when I was a child. –
All of Lawrence Block's works are very interesting. Give me another one, Lawrence Block. –Associated Press
Good book! –Stephen King
It is a lonely world, she has always lived alone, only the ghost of her deceased father accompanies her. The men she gets, the men who are attracted to her, all belong to other women—they are the ones who have to go home after spending the night with her. A prostitute in Greenwich Village, New York, is stabbed to death, the entire bed turning into a sea of blood; the homosexual boy who lives with her, covered in blood, rushes onto the street and is arrested as the culprit, later taking his own life in prison. The girl's father finds Matthew Scudder, hoping to understand what kind of person his daughter is and why she attracted such a fate.
This is one of the Midnight Library series strongly promoted by New Star Press. The series selects 150 of the purest, most classic, and most intelligent works in the history of detective novels, making reading an entertainment, an adventure, and an intellectual training. Readers who enjoy detective novels can also join New Star Press's "Midnight Club" to participate in many reading activities.
Author Lawrence Block is hailed as the "melancholy soul wandering in New York," and many elites are captivated by him. recommended his books to, who hoped to play the roles he wrote. said of Block, "He is a master of genre fiction, and also an unyielding, rebellious boundary-crosser."
For forty years, Block has accompanied the down-and-out, stubborn Matthew Scudder, as well as the gentleman thief Bernie Rhodenbarr, the sleepless spy Ivan Tancer, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing the ultimate prosperity and evil of New York. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first few pages, it doesn't affect his works. Some say, Block's skill is to first see terror in the bloodshed, then turn terror into suspense, and then seek understanding within the suspense—to understand why the killer kills and why the victim dies.
I have always wanted to step into her life, but instead, I keep facing her death. The master of the hardboiled detective novel in today's Western world, his works are beloved by many fans and elite collectors. Lawrence Block is the grandmaster of the detective novel world, and the Matthew Scudder series is the best detective novel of this century. –PrivateEyes
Reading Matthew Scudder, I felt like I had to finish it all at once, just like reading martial arts novels when I was a child. –
All of Lawrence Block's works are very interesting. Give me another one, Lawrence Block. –Associated Press
Good book! –Stephen King
It is a lonely world, she has always lived alone, only the ghost of her deceased father accompanies her. The men she gets, the men who are attracted to her, all belong to other women—they are the ones who have to go home after spending the night with her. A prostitute in Greenwich Village, New York, is stabbed to death, the entire bed turning into a sea of blood; the homosexual boy who lives with her, covered in blood, rushes onto the street and is arrested as the culprit, later taking his own life in prison. The girl's father finds Matthew Scudder, hoping to understand what kind of person his daughter is and why she attracted such a fate.
This is one of the Midnight Library series strongly promoted by New Star Press. The series selects 150 of the purest, most classic, and most intelligent works in the history of detective novels, making reading an entertainment, an adventure, and an intellectual training. Readers who enjoy detective novels can also join New Star Press's "Midnight Club" to participate in many reading activities.
Author Lawrence Block is hailed as the "melancholy soul wandering in New York," and many elites are captivated by him. recommended his books to, who hoped to play the roles he wrote. said of Block, "He is a master of genre fiction, and also an unyielding, rebellious boundary-crosser."
For forty years, Block has accompanied the down-and-out, stubborn Matthew Scudder, as well as the gentleman thief Bernie Rhodenbarr, the sleepless spy Ivan Tancer, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing the ultimate prosperity and evil of New York. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first few pages, it doesn't affect his works. Some say, Block's skill is to first see terror in the bloodshed, then turn terror into suspense, and then seek understanding within the suspense—to understand why the killer kills and why the victim dies.