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The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Mysteries Book 1) by Block, Lawrence is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderera minister's sonhanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures. Block's most famous creation, the ever-evolving Matthew Scudder, was introduced in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop working as an unlicensed private investigator in Hell's Kitchen. Originally published as paperbacks, the early novels are interchangeable; the second and third entriesIn the Midst of Death (1976) and Time to Murder and Create (1977)were written in the opposite order. 1982's 8 Million Ways to Die (filmed in 1986 by Hal Ashby, with unpopular results) breaks from that trend, concluding with Scudder introducing himself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The series was set to end on that note, but an idle promise Block had made to supply an editor friend with an original Scudder short resulted in "By the Dawn's Early Light", a story set during the character's drinking days, but told from the perspective

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Author
Block, Lawrence
Publisher
Jove
Published
1975
Language
EN
ISBN
9780060770464
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Thrillers, Fiction
Rating
4.2 / 5 (2,182 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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