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Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)

av Lawrence Block

Serier: Matthew Scudder (5)

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Battling the bottle one day at a time, ex-cop, sometime PI Matthew Scudder finds that next to staying sober, staying alive seems easy. But in the mean streets of New York City it never is. Not for the prostitute who wanted out and got her beautiful self slashed to ribbons. Not for a pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken-down detective can find her murderer. And not for Matthew Scudderâ??just trying to stay alive in a city that knows nothing better than how to die. Winner of the Shamus Award!… (mer)

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La ciudad de Nueva York puede ser un sueño o una pesadilla para los millones de personas que a diario recorren sus calles y avenidas. El detective Matthew Scudder, alcohólico en terapia, podría dar fe de ello tras años tratando con los personajes más sórdidos que habitan en ella. Sólo la bebida le ha mantenido apartado de la cruda realidad en sus escasos momentos de lucidez. Pero Scudder deberá enfrentarse nuevamente a la vileza de la gran urbe cuando la joven e ingenua Kim, una prostituta que perseguía un sueño, es brutalmente asesinada. Entonces la vida de Scudder se volcará en la resolución de tan horrendo crimen, aunque sea la última buena acción que haga en vida. Esta novela le valió a Lawrence Block el premio Edgar, y marca un hito en la vida de su gran personaje, Matthew Scudder.
  Natt90 | Jul 5, 2022 |
When I picked up this book, I hadn't realized that it was written 30 years ago. It was sort of nostalgic to hear about the days of ten cent phone calls, the days when smoking in bars and restaurants was still allowed, disco music, pay phones vs. cell phones, and the sad state of New York City during the late 1970's and early 1980's. Beyond that, there were two elements which the book dealt with. One, the ongoing fight to stay sober by the alcoholic private investigator Matt Scudder, and second, his criminal investigation into the murder of a call-girl.
His investigation led nowhere initially, with dead-ends and a series of apparently unrelated facts. Ultimately, much like Perry Mason episodes of old, Scudder gets a sudden enlightened moment, and pulls it all together, solving the crime, and also finally coming to grips with his alcoholism. ( )
  rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |
A fine detective mystery. ( )
  hivetrick | Feb 22, 2020 |
Matthew Scudder is a fascinating character! Can't wait to see what happens next. ( )
  ez_reader | Jul 7, 2019 |
Since I discovered Lawrence Block a few years ago I’ve read a lot of his novels and was a bit surprised to find I haven’t reviewed one yet. Eight Million Ways to Die is the fifth in the Matt Scudder series. It’s one of my favourites and the audiobook is narrated by the man himself!

I must admit I approached it with some trepidation. Which of us hasn’t sat through a live author reading on a hard seat with a fixed grin, as they mumble and shuffle their papers, longing for it to end so we can get to the bar? Often authors aren’t great performers and can’t project the music that’s in their head. In this case, though, Block did something more. His prose is very distinctive and he captured the rhythm and the downbeat mood just as I heard it in my head.

Scudder is a rootless former cop turned unlicensed investigator, living in a cheap motel. A prostitute called Kim wants to leave her pimp but is afraid to tell him, so she enlists Scudder’s help. The first thing Scudder has to do is find the enigmatic man, who is known only as Chance and appears to have no regular routine or social circle. When Kim is murdered, Scudder feels that he failed her and is determined to find her killer.

While the Scudder novels are firmly rooted in New York, many have a timeless quality to them. Often the only thing that reminds me they are not contemporary is the technology (in the early books Scudder spends a lot of time feeding dimes into payphones). Eight Million Ways to Die was first published in 1982 and it vividly portrays that period in New York’s history, when crime was out of hand, the news was full of senseless killings, and danger felt both ubiquitous and unavoidable.

Against this backdrop, Scudder is trying to fashion a new life for himself, one where he knows what is right and manages to do it. Drink and bars have always been a big part of Scudder’s story, but this is the first book in the series where he acknowledges his alcoholism.

At the centre of the crime and chaos of the city, the case and his attendance at AA give him a kind of structure and safety. The stories from the newspapers and from the people he questions in his investigation are interspersed with the stories from the people at AA meetings, though Scudder is not yet ready to share his own.

For me this is one of the most atmospheric Scudder novels and hearing it read by the author makes it even more special. It resonates today. The cacophony of headlines threatening to overwhelm Scudder are like the continual intrusive beeps and tweets of social media.

Scudder tells a man at AA that he is struggling to cope with all the bad news in the papers. The man suggests he just stops reading them.
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This review first appeared on my blog katevane.com/blog ( )
  KateVane | Aug 7, 2018 |
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Battling the bottle one day at a time, ex-cop, sometime PI Matthew Scudder finds that next to staying sober, staying alive seems easy. But in the mean streets of New York City it never is. Not for the prostitute who wanted out and got her beautiful self slashed to ribbons. Not for a pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken-down detective can find her murderer. And not for Matthew Scudderâ??just trying to stay alive in a city that knows nothing better than how to die. Winner of the Shamus Award!

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