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Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck--nine years since eight helpless young women were brutally slaughtered by an icepick-wielding maniac. The trail grew cold, and the book was unofficially closed on a serial killer who stopped killing. But now the "Icepick Prowler" has confessed--but only to seven of the killings. Not only does he deny the eighth but he also has an airtight alibi. Barbara Ettinger's family had almost come to accept that the young woman was the victim of a random killing. Now they must grapple with the shocking revelation that not only was her death disguised to look like the serial killer's work but her murderer may have been someone she knew and trusted. Matthew Scudder has been hired to finally bring her slayer to justice, setting the relentless detective on the trail of a death almost a decade old, searching for a vicious murderer who is either long gone, long dead--or patiently waiting to kill again.Product Identifiers
PublisherAudioGO
ISBN-100792779762
ISBN-139780792779766
eBay Product ID (ePID)112025658
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Book TitleStab in the Dark Lib/E : a Matthew Scudder Novel
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year2011
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorLawrence Block
Book SeriesThe Matthew Scudder Series Lib/E Ser.
FormatCompact Disc
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsThis is a Scudder mystery, and listeners will enjoy his relentless investigation into the brutal nine-year-old murder of a pregnant woman. The novel is early in the Scudder series, by the way, and an important stepping-stone on his way to sobriety., The more interesting aspect of the work is Scudder's alcoholism. Not yet bottomed out, he engages in morning eye-openers and all-day benders...Though his lover enters Alcoholics Anonymous at the end of the work, Scudder continues his heavy drinking. William Roberts's reading of the story is quite good. A required purchase for all detective story collections., Lawrence Block is a master...The Matthew Scudder novels are among the finest detective books penned in this century., Among the virtues of the book is its complete lack of sentimentality. The author is a deft surgeon, spare and economical, with no wasted motion, sure and precise in his technique.
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number4
Number of Volumes6 Vols.
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition