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Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder Mysteries Book 2) by Lawrence Block is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Small-time stoolie, Jake " The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients", he figured, the more money -- and more people eager to see him dead. So no one is surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in.And what's worse, no one cares -- except Matthew Scudder. The ex-cop-turned-private-eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job after all -- and Scudder's been paid to find a killer -- by the victim...in advance.From Publishers WeeklyThis is the third of Block's superb Matt Scudder series to appear (it was first issued by Dell in paperback back in 1977), and its return now in hardcover from Dark Harvest (which did the first, Sins of the Fathers , last year) is great news for admirers. The story is swift, complicated and elegant, and Kellerman gets it right when he says that the Scudder novels "are the best New York crime novels ever written." In this one Scudder, still in his drinking days, is paid by "Spinner" Jablon, a small-time hood, to hold an enve

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Author
Lawrence Block
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Published
1976
Language
EN
ISBN
9780061807121
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
True Crime, Fiction, Crime
Rating
4.2 / 5 (868 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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