Out the Window Matthew Scudder Book 1 edition by Lawrence Block Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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"I love the Matthew Scudder series, and I love short stories."
--Otto Penzler, Los Angeles Times, Ten Most Wanted Books of 2011
Lawrence Block’s 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). And it’s Matt Scudder who’s been largely responsible for Block’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, as Lawrence Block recalls
"I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction; Out the Window, which first appeared in AHMM in 1977, is the first of them.
"Out the Window and A Candle for the Bag Lady kept Scudder alive for me after Dell failed to sell the first three books effectively. There seemed little point in trying to interest another publisher in a series that had already proved unsuccessful, but I couldn't abandon Scudder, and wrote the two novelettes for magazine publication. Then I wrote the fourth novel, A Stab in the Dark, and Don Fine published it at Arbor House, and Scudder was back in business.
"Out the Window is included in The Night and the Music, my collection of all 11 Matthew Scudder short stories, available for or in handsome trade paperback form."
Out the Window Matthew Scudder Book 1 edition by Lawrence Block Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Out the Window is a terrific Matt Scudder short by Lawrence Block. Scudder is a former NYPD detective who tried to stop a robbery when he was off duty, but his shot went wide of the target and ended a nine year old girl's journey through life. Scudder fell apart, lost his family, made friends with a bottle of scotch and then another bottle of scotch. He picks up cases as a private op here and there.In this story, he frequents a bar where Paula works, Paula who sometimes walked through her shift "like a ghost through walls." Sometimes she had a brittle smile with tabs of amphetamines behind it. This career probably wasn't why she came to New York: "You no more set out to be a waitress in a Ninth Avenue gin mill than you intentionally become an ex-cop coasting through the months on bourbon and coffee."
Paula lived on the seventeenth floor and sometime after four she swung out of a high window and four seconds later there wasn't enough left of her to perform an autopsy on. "They scooped her up with a spatula and a sponge and then they hosed it all down."
With her apartment locked and the chain on, the cops call it suicide, but her sister doesn't like it and hires Scudder to investigate.
Yes, it's a locked room mystery, but it is told with wit and depth and good old fashioned storytelling skills. Bring on some more of this stuff. It's good.
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Out the Window Matthew Scudder Book 1 edition by Lawrence Block Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
My fault for not reading the info more closely but $3 for a 30 page short story is ridiculous, I mistakenly though I was actually buying a book. Story was fine but I finished it in about a hour and was left with nothing to read. This wasn't much more than a magazine article. Silly little waste of money short stories should not be listed with books
What I really enjoy about short stories is there is no wasted verbiage. The author gets to the point and stays on point throughout the whole story. This Scudder short story is no different.
Scudder is asked to look into the apparent suicide of a waitress by her sister. Scudder goes about this task in his usual methodical manner, sometimes using slightly questionable methods. That's what makes Scudder who and what he is.
All is all a very enjoyable short story.
This is such a quick little jaunt into the world of crime and death by Lawrence Block. Get the audiobook. His gravelly voice is perfect for the story.
Lawrence Block never fails to satisfy. His subject matter is unfailingly interesting his characters excite the interest to the point of wanting more his atmospheric descriptions of place and people are infinitely satisfying. Even in the shortest of stories his readers are rewarded with a feast of the utmost literary repast enjoyed with a rich and memorable good wine.
I had just finished In The Midst of Death (series #3) and Lawrence Block said (in his blog) this fit nicely after Midst, so I was just in time. I'm reading the Matthew Scudder series from the beginning.
First published in the Alfred Hitchcock Magazine, this is the first time it's been published as a book, an ebook, but still, a book. And if you've never read LB, treat yourself and put a big toe into some great, clear writing by a master.
Lawrence Block has written so many books, and is still writing for our enjoyment. As you can tell, I simply love LB's writing, am a Facebook friend, receive his blog. Lawrence Block is simply my hero! Well, maybe behind Matt.
Don't miss on this one!
A girl goes out her window, naked and full of drugs. A suicide, the police claim, but her sister refuses to believe it. She hires private detective Matthew Scudder to find out the truth, no matter what that truth may be. This is a well-written and engrossing short story, one of eleven writer Lawrence Block has available for , though he does have a collection of them as well. If you only know Scudder through the tough guy novels he's been featured in, then you'll also appreciate him in this shorter format, where the action is faster, the characterization is intense, and the punch in the gut is harder.
It's been eighteen hours since Paula Wittlauer threw herself out of her seventeenth floor apartment that early Friday morning in September and crash landed into the street just down from Mathew Scudder's own residence. Among the others at Armstrong's the night before, Paula had served Scudder and talked to him while she worked her last shift. Everything had seemed normal and he had no indication at all that she was in distress. Just a few hours later, for some reason, she took off all her clothes and went off the balcony in one final swan dive.
The death bothers him on so many levels so when Ruth Wittlauer, Paula's sister, is sure it wasn't suicide, Scudder doesn't dismiss her out of hand. Considering her lifestyle, Paula's death may be a suicide--intentional or accidental. It could have been something entirely else so he agrees to look into the matter.
What follows is an entertaining noir type short story previously published in "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" in 1977 and again in "The Night & the Music The Mathew Scudder Stories" published in 2011. It depicts a somewhat cynical detective in New York long before the towers fell working a case that is both complicated throughout and yet simply explained at the end. It's a solidly good short story and far better than a lot of the novels out there today.
Material snagged during the author's recent free e-book promotion.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2013
Out the Window is a terrific Matt Scudder short by Lawrence Block. Scudder is a former NYPD detective who tried to stop a robbery when he was off duty, but his shot went wide of the target and ended a nine year old girl's journey through life. Scudder fell apart, lost his family, made friends with a bottle of scotch and then another bottle of scotch. He picks up cases as a private op here and there.
In this story, he frequents a bar where Paula works, Paula who sometimes walked through her shift "like a ghost through walls." Sometimes she had a brittle smile with tabs of amphetamines behind it. This career probably wasn't why she came to New York "You no more set out to be a waitress in a Ninth Avenue gin mill than you intentionally become an ex-cop coasting through the months on bourbon and coffee."
Paula lived on the seventeenth floor and sometime after four she swung out of a high window and four seconds later there wasn't enough left of her to perform an autopsy on. "They scooped her up with a spatula and a sponge and then they hosed it all down."
With her apartment locked and the chain on, the cops call it suicide, but her sister doesn't like it and hires Scudder to investigate.
Yes, it's a locked room mystery, but it is told with wit and depth and good old fashioned storytelling skills. Bring on some more of this stuff. It's good.
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