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Title details for A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block - Available

A Drop of the Hard Stuff

Matthew Scudder Series, Book 17

#17 in series

by Lawrence Block
Tom Stechschulte
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Edgar Award-winning author Lawrence Block has been named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. A Drop of the Hard Stuff continues Block's popular series starring New York private detective and recovering alcoholic Matthew Scudder. Scudder is already struggling with his sobriety when his friend and fellow AA member Jack Ellery is found murdered. Now the only thing keeping Scudder from the bottle is his obsession with finding the culprit.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Matthew Scudder Short Stories

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    February 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781461823711
      • File size: 245431 KB
      • Duration: 08:31:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this seventeenth Matt Scudder mystery, Block takes listeners back two decades as he recounts Scudder's investigation of the murder of an old friend. At that time, Scudder has left the NYPD with a major alcohol problem and runs into an old buddy at an AA meeting. When his childhood friend is shot to death, Scudder is determined to find his killer. Scudder searches his friend's "make amends" list for suspects but comes up empty-handed. Tom Stechschulte's narration is superb as he weaves the unique characters and numerous suspects. His voices are so varied, you'd swear there's a cast of dozens. But it's just Stechschulte--doing it all himself. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 7, 2011
      MWA Grand Master Block's powerful 17th novel featuring PI Matthew Scudder (after 2005's All the Flowers Were Dying) explores the challenges of an alcoholic attempting to atone for his past misdeeds. In 1970 or '71, Scudder, then a Manhattan NYPD detective, recognizes a guy he knew in grade school in the Bronx, Jack Ellery, in a police lineup to identify a robber. The victim picks someone else as the man who held her up at gunpoint, though Ellery's the guilty party. Years later, after Scudder has left the force, he meets Ellery, now an ex-con, at an AA meeting, where Ellery is trying to take the ninth step—making amends to all the people he'd harmed. Scudder's efforts to solve the murder that results from Ellery's quest for absolution place his own sobriety—and life—at risk. Block's pitch-perfect prose bolsters the elegiac plot. Accessible to first-timers, this book should add many more fans to the author's considerable following.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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