Ticket to the cemetery

Author: Block
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: I have no belonging now, nor will I in the future. I am a lonely existence. A master of the hardboiled detective genre in contemporary Western literature, his works are beloved by many admirers and elite collectors. Lawrence Block is a grandmaster in the world of detective fiction, 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 in one go, just like reading martial arts novels as a child. – Hou Hsiao-hsien
All of Lawrence Block’s works are very interesting. Give me another Lawrence Block. – Associated Press
Good book! – Stephen King
Life is a comedy for those who live by thought; for those who live by feeling, it is a tragedy. For me, whether I live by thought or feeling, there is both joy and sorrow, and even if I do nothing, I cannot escape it.
When Scudder was still a police officer, his girlfriend, a call girl real estate expert named Eileen Madison, was targeted by a villain who refused to pay after sex and loved various cruel and sadistic games. Scudder set a trap and successfully sent him to jail. Years later, the villain returned and began his revenge, vowing to eliminate all of Scudder’s women, even those he didn’t even know, simply because they shared the surname Scudder. Scudder himself became the last sacrifice.
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Author Lawrence Block is hailed as the "melancholy soul wandering in New York," and many elites are captivated by him. Hou Hsiao-hsien recommended his books to Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who hoped to play a role in his works. Zhu Tianxin said of Block, "He is a master of genre fiction and 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 Rhodens, the sleepless spy Ivan Tassner, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing the ultimate prosperity and depravity of New York. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first page, it doesn’t affect his works. Some say, Block’s skill is to first see terror in the bloodshed, then transform it into suspense, and then seek understanding within the suspense—to understand why killers kill and why victims die.