A walk among the tombstones
by Lawrence Block
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Big-time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man. One fine spring morning his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded. Kenan pays and his wife is duly returned to him-in - small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car. PI Matt Scudder is left to speculate on the motives of a very unusual kidnapper. And soon he is on the trail of a pair of ruthlessly sadistic psycopaths whose cruel games have only just begun...
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Mystery, Drug traffic, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Matt Scudder (Fictitious character), Kidnapping, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Scudder, matt (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Scudder, Matt (Fictitious character)Places
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (A Matt Scudder Mystery)
November 15, 2004, Orion mass market paperback, Orion Paperbacks
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0752837486 9780752837482
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Originally published: 1993.
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Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #10. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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