The Sins of the Fathers
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Block has been getting better and better in recent Matt Scudder novels, but as this first hardcover version of a 16-year-old paperback shows, he was pretty good from the start. King's admiring introduction is generous but by no means overstated. This tale, which introduced the then-hard-drinking ex-cop, is spare and lean and full of dark insights into lonesomeness and anguish. The father of murdered Wendy Hanniford comes to Scudder to try to find out more about his errant daughter--not to find her killer, who was apparently her living partner, a brittle young man who was found in the street raving and covered with her blood and who killed himself shortly after he was arrested. In his dour, methodical, oddly empathetic way, Scudder finds out a great deal, altering several lives in the process. As always in the Scudder books, New York City--its small-hours bars, its jokey, edgy encounters--is a major character; as in the later books, too, Block's style is admirable: free of gimmicks, plain but utterly telling in every line. This is a fine opportunity to get in on the start of what has become one of the most rewarding PI series currently in progress.
Customer Reviews
Page turner
I enjoyed the complex detective character, Matthew Scudder in The Sins of the Fathers. The characters decisions making process to solve crime and punishment for the crime is very interesting. The book is a page turner, that you quickly get lost in.
Poor story snd worse writing
No match for the Evan Tanner series. As a retired police officer who reads a lot of police related books I found this to be probably the worst book about police related work I have ever read. Don’t waste your time.
Didn't see that coming!
Such a great book! I don't normally read books and was lucky enough to find this one and wow! I'm downloading more from Lawrence block!