Book 2

Time to Murder and Create

by Lawrence Block

Published 13 December 1979
The Spinner is dead, bashed on the head and left to rot in a river. One of his three blackmail victims must have been the killer - Scudder is determined to nail them. Henry Prager has paid enough for the sins of his daughter, and begs Scudder not to...Read more

Book 3

In the Midst of Death

by Lawrence Block

Published 9 August 1979
This time hard-drinking ex-cop Matt Scudder is roped in to an NYPD internal investigation that has ended up with one detective in the slammer on a murdre rap. Jerry is as clean as the world would like him to be although Matt isn't too sure, after all, he was...Read more

Book 5

Eight Million Ways to Die

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 August 1982
Staying alive is never easy; not for the prostitute who is slashed to robbons, nor for the pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken down Scudder can find her killer.

Book 6

Scudder is a witness to a heist in an illegal drinking den, and the owners would like him to find the culprits, while another witness wants him to investigate the muder of his wife.

Book 9

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 September 1991

The 9th breakneck thriller in the Matt Scudder series, from a master of the genre.

To Matt Scudder, no one can rise above the law.

But when the ex-cop is privately hired to investigate the murder of a beautiful pregnant woman, he finds himself pushed to the limits of his beliefs....

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Book 11

Devil Knows You'RE Dead

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 November 1993
Private detective Matthew Scudder ventures into the dark and dangerous alleys of Hell's Kitchen to track the killer of a yuppie lawyer.

Book 12

A Long Line of Dead Men

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 October 1994

From NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Lawrence Block.

In Manhattan thirty-one men have been meeting annually for years. Their private club meets only to record the passage of time and give toast to the joys of life. But suddenly they are dying at an alarming rate and one of their number...

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Book 13

Even the Wicked

by Lawrence Block

Published 16 September 1996
An anonymous letter writer, the self-styled "Will of the People" targets prominent criminals and evil-doers that the law cannot reach and kills them. All of his victims are dubbed "society offenders", but then he targets a DA, who calls in Scudder.

Book 14

Everybody Dies

by Lawrence Block

Published 16 September 1998
The new novel from mystery writers of America Grandmaster Lawrence Block in his multi-award winning series of Matt Scudder rivate detective mysteries. Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pas including Mick Ballou - an Irish...Read more

A Walk Among the Tombstones

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 October 1992
Big time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man.Then 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.Leaving PI Matt Scudder to speculate on the...Read more

Out on the Cutting Edge

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 October 1989
'Lawrence Block is a master of crime fiction; the Matthew Scudder novels are among the finest detective novels penned in this century.' Jonathan Kellerman 'If you haven't been introduced to Scudder yet, start here.' Chicago Tribune Lawrence Block's career in crime fiction has been full of triumphs. But of...Read more

A Ticket to the Boneyard

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 September 1990
The streets of New York are never safe, but the release of James Leo Motley, a psychopath who went down swearing revenge on PI Matt Scudder, means death is outthere. No one is safe, friends, lovers, or just those unfortunate enough to share the Scudder name. Soon the streets...Read more

The Sins of the Fathers

by Lawrence Block

Published 24 May 1979
A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell and as far as the NYPD is concerned the case is closed. Matt Scudder, an ex-cop who now does "favours for friends', is persuaded to...Read more

A Stab in the Dark

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 August 1982
Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck. Nine years since eighthelpless young women were hideously slaughteredby an ice-pick wielding maniac. Now hard-drinking ex-cop and unlicensed investigator Matt Scudder has been hiredto bring the murderer to justice at last. Relentlessly Scudder follows an aging trail of blood...Read more