Father's Sin: The Matthew Scudder Series

Author: (American) Block, translated by Yi Cuivwen
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: I've always wanted to step into her life, but I keep facing her death again and again. The master of the hard-boiled detective genre in today's Western world, his works have numerous fans, elites, and 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 in one breath, 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
This is a lonely world. 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 spending the night with her.
A prostitute in Greenwich Village, New York, is stabbed to death, turning the entire bed into a sea of blood; her gay roommate, covered in blood, rushes onto the street and is arrested as the suspect, later taking his own life in prison. The girl's father seeks out Matthew Scudder, hoping to understand what kind of person his daughter is and why she attracted such a fate.
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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 one of his characters. 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 Rodenbark, the sleepless spy Ivan Tana, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing New York's most extreme prosperity and depravity. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first page, it doesn't affect his works. Some say Block's talent lies in seeing horror in the bloodshed, turning it into suspense, and then seeking understanding—understanding why killers kill and why victims die.
This is a lonely world. 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 spending the night with her.