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Lawrence Block – The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) Publisher: Avon (September 1, 1991) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 038076363X | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 153 kb + 239 kb Block has been getting better and better in recent Matt Scudder novels, but as this first hardcover version of a 16-year-old paperback shows, he was pretty good from the start. King’s admiring introduction is generous but by no means overstated. This tale, which introduced the then-hard-drinking ex-cop, is spare and lean and full of dark insights into lonesomeness and anguish. The father of murdered Wendy Hanniford comes to Scudder to try to find out more about his errant daughter–not to find her killer, who was apparently her living partner, a brittle young man who was found in the street raving and covered with her blood and who killed himself shortly after he was arrested.
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Lawrence Block – Out on the Cutting Edge: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel Publisher: Avon (October 1, 1990) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0380709937 | EPUB + MOBI | 352 pages | 182 kb + 318 kb 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.
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Methods of Mathematical Finance by Ioannis Karatzas (Repost) Publisher: Springer; Corrected edition (August 13, 1998) | ISBN: 0387948392 | Pages: 422 | PDF | 84.62 MB Written by two of the best-known researchers in mathematical finance, this book presents techniques of practical importance as well as advanced methods for research.
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WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy 1st Edition. (February 15, 2011) | ISBN: 161039061X | 538 pages | EPUB | 1 MB A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the ethical, legal, and political controversies it has both uncovered and provoked.
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Lawrence Block – In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) Publisher: Avon (June 1, 1992) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0380763621 | EPUB + MOBI | 272 pages | 152 kb + 237 kb Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn’t make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an ambitious d.a. about police corruption. Now he’saccused of murdering a call girl. Matthew Scudder doesn’t think Broadfield’s a killer, but the cops aren’t about to help the unlicensed p.i. prove it — and they may do a lot worse than just get in his way.
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Lawrence Block – Hope to Die (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) Publisher: HarperTorch (November 5, 2002) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 006103097X | EPUB + MOBI | 400 pages | 301 kb + 458 kb This is the 15th Matthew Scudder novel in 25 years, and readers of Block’s noir series know what to expect. It’s all here: a perfect evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of New York City; trips to AA meetings in church basements; Mick Ballou’s bar; and the recurring characters such as Ballou, the streetwise TJ, and Elaine, the civilizing influence. In this latest outing, Matt and Elaine attend a “Mostly Mozart” benefit concert at Lincoln Center. At the same concert are a couple who are later murdered in their Upper West Side apartment. Then, the “murderers” are themselves killed in Brooklyn. Without anyone really asking him to, and for want of something better to do, Scudder starts to pick at this case until the whole story unravels before him to a startling conclusion. Every so often, the real murderer narrates a chapter, which adds a cat-and-mouse element. But those looking for fast action will not find it here the pace is leisurely, and characters and set pieces are almost as important as plot. Recommended, especially for public libraries, where readers will ask for it.
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Lawrence Block – Even the Wicked: A Matthew Scudder Novel Publisher: Avon (February 1, 1998) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0380725347 | EPUB + MOBI | 400 pages | 264 kb + 428 kb Marriage to his old flame, Elaine, seems to have mellowed Block’s veteran PI, Matt Scudder. He still continues to get his man with a combination of doggedness and occasional flashes of inspiration, but his life has become too cozy to make him the absorbing companion he used to be. Quiet domestic evenings spent talking things over with Elaine in Block’s patented delightful dialogue alternate with thoughtful discussions, in this case, with the two perpetrators in the book, who give themselves up without a murmur. Voices are never raised; not even a roscoe barks. It’s all too civilized, as if Scudder’s formerly gritty world were moving closer to that of Block’s much slighter series hero, the daffy burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.
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Lawrence Block – Eight Million Ways to Die Publisher: William Morrow (December 26, 2007) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0061457965 | EPUB + MOBI | 336 pages | 297 kb + 464 kb Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in the city of New York. Except a young prostitute named Kim—and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn’t deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn’t deserve her death.
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Lawrence Block – The Devil Knows You’re Dead Publisher: Avon Book; 1st edition (October 1, 1994) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 038072023X | EPUB + MOBI | 337 pages | 261 kb + 424 kb There’s a new trend afoot in the series mystery. Mickey Spillane, Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes, and their investigating cohorts seldom changed from book to book. Part of their appeal, in fact, was their consistency. Contemporary series authors, however, such as Bill Pronzini, Robert P. Parker, Joseph Hansen, and Lawrence Block, have taken the series character a step further, allowing growth and change to occur to the hard-boiled hero just as they do to ordinary mortals. Block’s recovering alcoholic Matt Scudder is a perfect example. Once isolated by guilt, angst, and booze, Scudder was the quintessential loner.
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Lawrence Block – A Walk Among the Tombstones Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (December 7, 2000) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0752837486 | EPUB + MOBI | 267 kb + 436 kb Despite their dark titles (the words Slaughterhouse and Boneyard figured in the previous two), Block’s splendid, award-winning Matt Scudder novels are by no means unrelievedly bleak. His latest-as well as offering the customary skillful plotting, adroit pacing and sure sense of New York character-features a wry humor all its own, along with a particularly ingratiating and convincing pair of computer hackers. The premise is grim, certainly: a pair of men who prey murderously on women progress to kidnapping the womenfolk of drug dealers and demanding huge ransoms.
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