Time to Murder and Create, Lawrence Block
Time to Murder and Create, Lawrence Block
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Time to Murder and Create
A Matthew Scudder Novel

Author: Lawrence Block

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2011

Synopsis

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more clients, he figured, the more money—and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy—if anything happens to The Spinner, Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River with his skull bashed in. Blackmail's a dangerous business. What's worse, no one cares—except Matthew Scudder. The unofficial private eye is no conscientious avenging angel. But he's willing to risk his own life and limb to confront Spinner's most murderously aggressive marks. A job's a job, after all, and Scudder's been paid to find a killer—by the victim—in advance.

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar, and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.

About Alan Sklar

Alan Sklar, a graduate of Dartmouth, has excelled in his career as a freelance voice actor. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him several Earphones Awards, a Booklist Editors’ Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. He has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA, Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

This is the second book in Lawrence Block's excellent series featuring Matthew Scudder. It doesn't pack quite the emotional wallop of the first, The Sins of the Fathers, but it's a very good read nonetheless. For those who don't know, Matthew Scudder is an ex cop who lives in New York City and who wo......more

Goodreads review by Bill

Two-bit blackmailer “Spinner” Jablon hires Matthew Scudder to find a murderer. The victim? “Spinner” himself. He entrusts Matt with an envelope filled with “dirt” on three blackmail “clients," and, if he dies suddenly, wants Scudder to discover which of the three is responsible. Soon Jablon's body i......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”A bullet ricocheted. Those things happen. Part of the reason I left the force was that those things happen and I did not want to be in a position where I could do wrong things for right reasons. Because I had decided that, while it might be true that the end does not justify the means, neither does......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

Spinner Jablon is a small-time criminal and hustler that Matt Scudder knows from his days on the police. One day he shows up with money in his pockets and an offer for Matt: Hold onto an envelope to be opened if Spinner gets killed. It seems like easy money and weeks pass until Spinner misses his re......more

Quotes

“One of the very best writers now working the beat…Block has done something new and remarkable with the private-eye novel.” Wall Street Journal

“Block is awfully good, with an ear for dialogue, an eye for lowlife types, and a gift for fast and effortless storytelling.” Los Angeles Times

“Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hamett still cast long shadows across the mystery genre. If there’s one crime writer currently capable of matching their noirish legacies, it’s Lawrence Block.” San Francisco Chronicle

“The dialogue is, as always, dead on and rivetingly entertaining, and the atmosphere…is wonderfully morose. Not to be missed.” Publishers Weekly

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