The Night and The Music (Matthew Scudder Mysteries Book 18)

The Night and The Music (Matthew Scudder Mysteries Book 18)

Lawrence Blockâ€™s 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the worldâ€”along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). And itâ€™s Matt Scudder whoâ€™s been largely responsible for Blockâ€™s lifetime achievement awards: Grand Master (Mystery Writers of America), The Eye (Private Eye Writers of America), and the Cartier Diamond Dagger (UK Crime Writers Association).

But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and itâ€™s all here, from a pair of late-70s novelettes (Out the Window and A Candle for the Bag Lady) through By the Dawnâ€™s Early Light (Edgar) and The Merciful Angel of Death (Shamus), all the way to One Last Night at Groganâ€™s, a moving and elegiac story never before published. It was short fiction that kept the series alive on the several occasions when the flow of novels was interrupted, and short stories that took Scudder down different paths and showed us unmapped portions of his world.

Some of these stories appeared in such magazines as Alfred Hitchcock, Ellery Queen, and Playboy. The title vignette, The Night and the Music, was written for a NYC jazz festival program; another, Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen, has appeared only as the text of a limited-edition broadside. And the final story, putting Matt and Elaine at a table with Mick and Kristin Ballou in a shuttered Hellâ€™s Kitchen saloon, has its first appearance in this volume.

Several stories look back from the time of their writing, with Scudder recounting events from his former life as a cop, first as a patrolman partnered with the legendary Vince Mahaffey, then as an NYPD detective leading a double life. In Looking for David, Matt and Elaine are on vacation in Florence, where they encounter a man Matt arrested decades earlier; now Matt finally learns the motive behind a brutal homicide.

Along with the eleven stories and novelettes, The Night and The Music includes a list of the seventeen novels in chronological order, and an authorâ€™s note detailing the origin and bibliographical details of each of the stories.

Brian Koppelman, the prominent screenwriter and director (Solitary Man, Oceanâ€™s Thirteen, Rounders) and a major Matt Scudder fan, has sweetened the pot with an introduction.
Country USA
Manufacturer Telemachus Press, LLC
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-19
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Telemachus Press, LLC
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-19
Format	Kindle eBook

The Night and The Music (Matthew Scudder Mysteries Book 18)

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