Even the Wicked

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0752804375 / ISBN 13: 9780752804378

Published by Orion, 1996

About this Item

1st Edition Black Hardcover. Book Condition: spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Spine ends slightly creased. Not Price Clipped.

Seller Inventory # 018576

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Even the Wicked
• Publisher: Orion
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752804375
• ISBN 13: 9780752804378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

This latest Matt Scudder mystery finds the ex-alcoholic, ex-cop, called in to protect a criminal defense attorney who is being targeted by a vigilante killer.

Review

This is far from the best of Lawrence Block's landmark Scudder series-too little action or suspense, too much domestic bliss--so I'll just use its publication as an excuse to introduce newcomers to some past glories. The best of them all is still When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, definitely on my short list of the 100 Best Mysteries. But close behind are such other Scudder classics as A Long Line of Dead Men, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, The Devil Knows You're Dead, Eight Million Ways to Die, In the Midst of Death, A Ticket to the Boneyard, and A Walk Among the Tombstones.