Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his neme...(展开全部)

Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his neme...(展开全部)

When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.</p>Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths...(展开全部)

<center>This is a city that seduces dreamers...then eats their dreams.</center><p align="left">Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best -- and now the ex-cop-turned-p.i. is scouring the hell ca...(展开全部)

Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, executing those he fees deserve to die. He calls himself "The Will of the People"--an ingenious serial killer who announces his specific...(展开全部)

Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, executing those he fees deserve to die. He calls himself "The Will of the People"--an ingenious serial killer who announces his specific...(展开全部)

作者簡介 勞倫斯．卜洛克Lawrence Block 勞倫斯．卜洛克 Lawrence Block 歐美當代冷硬派偵探小說書寫第一人 一九三八年出生於紐約水牛城。除了極少時間之外，卜洛克幾乎都定居於紐約市內，並以該城為主要背景，從事推理文學創作，成為全球知名推理小說家，因而獲得「紐約犯罪風景的行吟詩人」美譽。 卜洛克的推理寫作，從「冷硬派」出發而予人以人性溫暖；屬「類型書寫」卻不拘一格，常見出格筆路。他的文思敏捷又勤於筆耕，自一九五七年正式出道以來，已出版超過五十本小說，並寫出短篇小說逾百。遂將漢密特、錢徳勒所締建的美國犯罪小說傳統，推向另一個引人矚目的高度。卜洛克一生獲獎無數。他曾七度榮獲愛倫坡獎、十次夏姆斯獎、四次安東尼獎、兩次馬爾他之鷹獎、二○○四年英國犯罪作家協會鑽石匕首獎，以及法、德、日等國所頒發推理大獎。二○○二年，繼一九九四年愛倫坡獎當...(展开全部)

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also--and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pie...(展开全部)

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also--and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pie...(展开全部)

A story of the lively adventures of four young Russians whose unconventional ideas are matched only by their off-beat behavior. When this novel by a twenty-eight-year-old Moscow doctor appeared in Russia, it caused a storm of literary excitement. Some critics attacked it for its "hateful" slang, its effervescent irreverence, its frivolity. Still other Russian critics--represent...(展开全部)