![]() In his dour, methodical, oddly empathetic way, Scudder finds out a great deal, altering several lives in the process. ![]() The father of murdered Wendy Hanniford comes to Scudder to try to find out more about his errant daughter-not to find her killer, who was apparently her living partner, a brittle young man who was found in the street raving and covered with her blood and who killed himself shortly after he was arrested. This tale, which introduced the then-hard-drinking ex-cop, is spare and lean and full of dark insights into lonesomeness and anguish. King's admiring introduction is generous but by no means overstated. ![]() Block has been getting better and better in recent Matt Scudder novels, but as this first hardcover version of a 16-year-old paperback shows, he was pretty good from the start.
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