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From Publishers Weekly
The prolific author's humanity and the immediacy of his understated style are again evidenced in his seventh mystery related by Matt Scudder: ex-NYPD officer, recovering alcoholic, and now private detective ( When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes , etc.). This novel opens with Matt looking for Paula Hoeldtke, an aspiring actress who disappeared a short time after she arrived in Manhattan from Muncie, Ind. In an unrelated case, Matt investigates the apparent suicide of a fellow AA member, Eddie Dunphy, and becomes the lover of Willa Rossiter, who manages the apartment house where Eddie lived. The affair flourishes despite warnings from his AA sponsor about an involvement with Willa, a heavy drinker. Matt ignores the advice, as he does the anonymous phone calls ordering him to quit asking questions about the missing girl and Eddie's death. In time, the dogged investigator uncovers the appalling facts that close both cases. In this riveting mystery, Block's artistry creates a full complement of fully realized characters, each a real person regardless of his or her perhaps tenuous connection to the plot.
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-- New York Daily News
Exceptional...A Whale Of A Knockout Punch To The Solar Plexus."

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There are three prominent fraternal organizations for actors in New York, and years ago an actor named Maurice Jenkins-Lloyd had summed them up to anyone who'd listen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paula Hoeldtke, New York, Eddie Dunphy, Mickey Ballou, Jim Faber, Warren Hoeldtke, Tenth Avenue, Times Square, Andy Buckley, Butcher Boy, Georgia Price, Kelly Greer, Social Security, Abe Beame, Ball State, Big Book, Druid's Castle, Eighth Avenue, Errol Flynn, Matthew Scudder, Ninth Avenue, Very Good Friends, West Side, Fourteenth Street, Green Haven New!
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