Cover Image

A drop of the hard stuff

New York private detective and recovering alcoholic Matthew 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.

Main Author: Block, Lawrence.
Corporate Authors: Recorded Books, LLC.
Other Authors: Stechschulte, Tom. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2011.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Scudder, Matt (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Alcoholics > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > New York.
Audiobooks.
Summary: New York private detective and recovering alcoholic Matthew 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.
Item Description: Compact disc.
Title from container.
In container (17 cm.)
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
"A Matthew Scudder Mystery"--Container.
Physical Description: 7 sound discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 9781449832698
1449832695
Author Notes: Lawrence Block is the author of the popular series' featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, and Chip Harrison. Over 2 million copies of Lawrence Block's books are in print. He has published articles and short fiction in American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, GQ, and The New York Times, and has published several collections of short fiction in book form, most recently Collected Mystery Stories.

Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times, the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe award. In France, he was proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has been awarded the Societe 813 trophy twice. Block was presented with the key to the city of Muncie, Indiana, and is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Similar Items