A Long Line of Dead Men: A Matthew Scudder Novel

by Lawrence Block Narrated by Joe Barrett

Overview

An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder-ex-cop and ex-boozer-has known death in all its guises, which is why he has been asked to investigate a baffling thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen.

But Scudder has mortality problems of his own, for his is a city that feeds mercilessly on the unsuspecting-even the powerful and those who serve them are easy prey. There are too many secrets here, too many places for a maddeningly patient serial killer to hide ... and wait ... and strike.

Editorial Reviews

Baltimore Sun

Ingenious…Consistently strong.”

San Antonio Express-News

A superior storyteller…Block has an awareness of the pain and pleasure of living. It is a gift that not all authors have.”

Rochester Post-Bulletin

An intelligent detective story that plays fair with the reader and yet will keep you guessing until the very end.”

Booklist (starred review)

Block takes this absolutely wonderful premise and makes the most of it. Like all the best hard-boiled writers in the post-Chandler era, Block knows that character and ambience are the heart and soul of crime fiction, but unlike so many of his brethren, he also maintains a healthy respect for plot. When you read a lot of mysteries, you come to feel a numbing inevitability about literary murder: there are only so many motives and so many ways to kill somebody, and we’ve seen them all. Hence the pleasure of encountering a new Block novel and realizing again the joys of a fresh premise.”

Wall Street Journal

One of the best writers now working the beat, Lawrence Block has done something new and remarkable with the private eye novel.”

Entertainment Weekly

Matthew Scudder has evolved into the perfect noir hero.”

Village Voice

Superb…Block writes better than all of them…He gets better and better all the time.”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Masterful fiction…Skillful and imaginative.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169520545
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	06/17/2014
Series:	Matthew Scudder Series , #12
Edition description:	Unabridged

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