Looking for David

by Lawrence Block

Overview

I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff--the 17th and most recent--was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction. Looking for David is the seventh of these; it first appearedin 1997 in Whydunit, a collection of stories by members of the Crime Writers of Canada, and ran the followiing year in EQMM.

The story grew out of a couple of threads--my recollection of the role the statue of David played in my hometown of Buffalo, and a woman's observation on the metamorphosis of her husband from Greek god to Roman emperor. Ah, well. These things happen...

Looking for David is included in The Night and the Music, my collection of all 11 Matthew Scudder short stories, available for Nook or in handsome trade paperback form.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150919778
Publisher:	Lawrence Block
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Matthew Scudder short stories , #7
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	692,020
File size:	281 KB

About the Author

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as “James M. Cain on Viagra,” is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.