Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men (USA 2020)

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Matthew Scudder, played by Liam Neeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones, investigates a secret, private club in Manhattan whose members suddenly start dying, when it becomes obvious that someone is trying to kill them all.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men. Matt Scudder #12. LB Productions, ISBN: 9781951939861 (September, 2020), Hardcover, 302 p., $27.99.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men (USA 2012)

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Matthew Scudder investigates a secret, private club in Manhattan whose members suddenly start dying, when it becomes obvious that someone is trying to kill them all.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men. Matt Scudder #12. Telemachus Press, ISBN: 9781937698928 (February, 2012), Paperback, 388 p., $14.99, eBook $7.99.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men (USA 1999)

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The winner of multiple Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon Awards, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block has elevated the detective novel to high art--combining grit with intelligence, suspense with stunning emotional complexity and power. And in unlicensed private investigator Matthew Scudder, he has created a character whose depth and stark humanity is unrivalled in contemporary fiction.

An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant--a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder -- ex-cop, ex-boozer -- has known death in all its guises. Which is why he has been asked to investigate a baffling, thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen. But Scudder has mortality problems of his own. For this is a city that feeds mercilessly on the unsuspecting -- and even thepowerful and those who serve them are easy prey. There are too many secrets here -- and too many places for a maddeningly patient serial killer to hide... and wait... and strike.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men. A Matthew Scudder Mystery. Quill, ISBN: 0380806045 (April, 1999), 289 p., $12.50.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men (UK 1999)

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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 begins to suspect that something more than bad luck is at work.

For private eye Matt Scudder, the case is one of the most baffling he's faced. Can the deaths really be a bizarre series of suicides and violent accidents? Or is there is a pattern behind the random play of tragedy? Is there a murderer at work and can he be stopped before the victims run out?

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men. A Matt Scudder Mystery. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752827480 (January, 1999), 338 p., £6.99.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men (USA 1996)

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An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restuarant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder -- ex-cop, ex-boozer -- has known death in all its guises, which is why he as been asked to investigate a baffling, thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen.

But Scudder has mortality problems of his own, for his is a city that feeds mercilessly on the unsuspecting -- and even the powerful and those who serve them are easy prey. There are too many secrets here, and too many places for a maddeningly patient serial killer to hide... and wait... and strike.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men. A Matthew Scudder Mystery. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380720248 (February, 1996), 338 p., $5.99.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men (USA 1994)

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Few authors command the kind of respect and devotion that Lawrence Block does. The crime fiction community has recently given him its highest honor, naming him a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. His dark, elegantly written novels have received serious critical attention. And, within the recovery community, his Matthew Scudder is known as a hero who speaks directly to the grim heart of the matter.

With A Long Line of Dead Men, Scudder is confronted with a fascinating case that turns out to have enormous emotional repercussions for everyone involved. In Manhattan, thirty men have been meeting once a year for years; they form a tontine, a secret, private club, the only purpose of which is to record the passage of time and to give a toast to the Joys of life. But then these men start to die at alarming rates -- and it's clear that someone is deter-mined to kill them all.

Hired by one of the members, Scudder enters into the lives of these prosperous, successful men, a world apart from the street hustlers and career criminals he knows so well. As the case draws him in, and as death continues to stalk his clients, he's forced to look long and hard at his own life -- his work, his loves, his friendships. His destiny.

Lawrence Block: A Long Line of Dead Men. A Matthew Scudder Novel. William Morrow, ISBN: 0688121934 (January, 1994), 285 p., $20.00.