After the hotel closed: The Matthew Scudder series

Author: (American) Block, translated by Wang Lingxiao
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: If I were born drunk, I might forget all my sorrows. The hard-boiled detective in the current Western and Eastern detective novels, his works have many admirers, elites love to collect. Lawrence Block is the master of the detective novel world, and the Matthew Scudder series is the best detective novel of this century. – PrivateEyes While reading Matthew Scudder, I felt like I had to finish it all at once, just like when I was a child reading martial arts novels. – Hou Xiaoxian All of Lawrence Block’s works are very interesting. Give me another one, Lawrence Block. – Associated Press Good! – Stephen King I usually drink two glasses of bourbon, then a little coffee, and only have two more when the long night is almost over to steady myself. There, I can read the newspaper, eat a burger, or have a full meal. If I don’t want to talk, I can also take a break there. I’m not there all day, but I go there at least once a day. Sometimes when Danny opens the door, I go in; I only come out when Billy closes it. Everyone needs a place to stay, right? The Mosley Bar was robbed, "Miss Kitten’s" ledger was stolen, and Mrs. Delory was killed. The three parties all asked Matthew to help uncover the truth. After clues were discovered one by one, the scattered pieces of the three cases gradually came together, and all the truths were revealed. Matthew will have his own solution. This is one of the "Midnight Library" series strongly launched by Xinxing Publishing House. The series selects 150 of the purest, 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 Xinxing Publishing House’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 obsessed with him. Hou Xiaoxian recommended his books to Tony Leung, who hoped to play the characters in his works. Zhu Tianxin said of Block, "He is a master of genre fiction and 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 Tarnoy, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing the extreme prosperity and evil 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 turn terror into suspense, and then seek understanding in the suspense, understanding why the killer kills and why the victim dies.