After the hotel closes

Author: Lawrence Block
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: If I were born with a hangover, I might forget all my sadness. The hard-boiled detective in today's Western and Eastern detective novels, his works have many admirers, elite collectors. Lawrence Block is a master of the detective novel world, and the Matthew Scudder series is the best detective novel of this century. – Private Eyes
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 Hsiao-hsien
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 another two glasses when the long night is almost over to steady myself. There, I can read the newspaper, eat a hamburger, or have a full meal. If I don’t want to talk, I can also take a break there. I’m not there all the time, but I make at least one visit there every day. Sometimes when Danny opens the door, I go in; I only leave when Billy closes it. Everyone needs a place to stay, right? The Mosley Bar was robbed, “Miss Kitty’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 slowly came together, and the truth was revealed. Matthew will have his own solution.
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Author Lawrence Block is hailed as the “melancholy soul wandering in New York,” and many elites are obsessed with him. Hou Hsiao-hsien recommended his books to Tony Leung, who hoped to play a role in his works. Chu Tien-wen said of Block, “He is a master of genre fiction, as well as an unwilling, rebellious transgressor.”
For forty years, Block has accompanied the down-and-out, stubborn Matthew Scudder, the gentleman thief Bernie Rhodenbark, the sleepless spy Ivan Tassner, and the cold-blooded killer Keller, witnessing the most extreme prosperity and evil in New York. Even if the murderer is exposed on the first page, it doesn’t affect his works. Some say, Block’s talent is to see horror in the bloodshed, turn horror into suspense, and then seek understanding in the suspense—to understand why killers kill and why victims die.