Out on the Cutting Edge - First Edition - Signed

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0688090699 / ISBN 13: 9780688090692

Published by William Morrow & Co, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Out on the Cutting Edge - First Edition - Signed
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688090699
• ISBN 13: 9780688090692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Illustrated dust jacket
• Weight: 40 ounces
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams.

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 bestâ and now the ex-cop-turned-p.i. is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, he's finding loveâ and deathâ in the worst possible places.

Reviews

The prolific author's humanity and the immediacy of his understated style are again evidenced in his seventh mystery related by Matt Scudder: ex-NYPD officer, recovering alcoholic, and now private detective ( When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes , etc.). This novel opens with Matt looking for Paula Hoeldtke, an aspiring actress who disappeared a short time after she arrived in Manhattan from Muncie, Ind. In an unrelated case, Matt investigates the apparent suicide of a fellow AA member, Eddie Dunphy, and becomes the lover of Willa Rossiter, who manages the apartment house where Eddie lived. The affair flourishes despite warnings from his AA sponsor about an involvement with Willa, a heavy drinker. Matt ignores the advice, as he does the anonymous phone calls ordering him to quit asking questions about the missing girl and Eddie's death. In time, the dogged investigator uncovers the appalling facts that close both cases. In this riveting mystery, Block's artistry creates a full complement of fully realized characters, each a real person regardless of his or her perhaps tenuous connection to the plot.
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