Lawrence Block Crime and Punishment

Author: Lawrence
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: I have always wanted to step into her life, but instead, I keep facing her death. The master of the hardboiled detective genre in contemporary Western literature, his works are beloved by many admirers and elite collectors. Lawrence Block, the grandmaster 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 all at once, just like reading martial arts novels as a child. –
All of Lawrence Block’s works are very interesting. Give me another one, Lawrence Block. –Associated Press
Good book! –Stephen King
It’s a lonely world, and she has always lived alone, only accompanied by the ghost of her deceased father. 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 a night of passion. A prostitute in Greenwich Village, New York, is stabbed to death, the entire bed turning into a sea of blood; her gay roommate, 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.
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Lawrence Block, the author, is hailed as the “melancholy soul wandering in New York,” and many elites are captivated by him. Hou Xiaoxian recommended his books to Tony Leung, who hoped to play a role in his works. Zhu Tianxin said of Block, “He is a master of genre fiction, as well as an unwilling, rebellious boundary-crosser.”
For forty years, Block has accompanied the down-and-out, stubborn Matthew Scudder, the gentleman thief Bernie Rhodenbarr, the sleepless spy Ivan Tancer, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing New York’s most extreme prosperity and evil. 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 the horror in the bloodshed, then turn it into suspense, and then seek understanding within the suspense—to understand why killers kill and why victims die.