A Drop of the Hard Stuff

Lawrence Block

ISBN 10: 0316127337 / ISBN 13: 9780316127332

Published by Mulholland Books, New York, 2011

About this Item

A Fine copy in all regards, inclusive of the dust jacket. Signed to the title page. Stated first edition with a full number line. 319 pages. 6.25" x 9.5". In the fifth decade of private investigator Matthew Scudder novels, author Lawrence Block (1938 ) takes us back to the PI s first year of sobriety in which he investigates the murder of a childhood friend. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Drop of the Hard Stuff
• Publisher: Mulholland Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316127337
• ISBN 13: 9780316127332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Printing
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's world may lead him right back to the bar stool.

In a novel widely celebrated by critics and readers, Lawrence Block circle back to how it all began, reestablishing the Matthew Scudder series as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction.

"Right up there with Mr. Block's best . . . A Drop of Hard Stuff keeps us guessing." -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Lawrence Block is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master who has won multiple Edgar and Shamus awards and countless international prizes. The author of more than 50 books, he lives in New York City.