- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (2 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752827499
- ISBN-13: 978-0752827490
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 17.7 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 501,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Spinner was a blackmailer, but that didn't give someone the right to bash his head in and leave him to rot in the river. There are three suspects, all blackmail victims, but which one was desperate enough to silence the Spinner for good?
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Lawrence Block was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2004. He is also a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He is the author of many novels and short stories and has won numerous awards for his mystery writing. He lives and works in New York City.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A good book, well worth 5 stars. The characters really do come alive. (You can almost hear spinner playing with his coin!) You won't put this book down, but after finishing it you want to read more. One piece of advice, make sure you don't start reading it unless you have a lot of free time, cos you won't put it down!!!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
never knew i could like crime fiction til i read block. prose so spare it's hardly there. Scudder is a genius creation, a compulsive read. The ending had me confused though. Or did it? Maybe I spent too long drinking whisky and coffee that day. Or was that Scudder hinself?
Watch out. |Lawrence Block wants you to read his books. You may well do.
Watch out. |Lawrence Block wants you to read his books. You may well do.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Second Scudder novel reads well.
22 Dec 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
. Matthew Scudder is Lawrence Block's remarkable private investigator. He's a former NYPD detective who left the force after an accident left a child dead in a crossfire. Because he is unlicensed you can't "hire" him. Instead he does you a favor by taking your case and solving the crime. In exchange for the favor the client returns the favor by giving him some cash. Scudder is an alcoholic. Rarely do you find him without a drink in has hand or at one of has favorite watering holes. "Time to Murder and Create" is the second in a series of at least a dozen books in the Matthew Scudder Series. A petty thief, Jake Jablon, known as "the Spinner" because he's always spinning a silver dollar, is found murdered. Someone crashed in his skull and then dumped him in The New York's East River. Matt Scudder was hired in advance by Jablon to find his killer if he is killed. He knew someone was after him because he was blackmailing three people. Jablon hands Scudder and envelope containing information on the three. Scudder hides the envelope in his hotel room with the instructions not to open it until Jablon is dead. When it becomes known that he was dead Scudder's work begins. He examins the contents of the envelops and begins to visit all three victims of Jablon's blackmailing efforts. Scudder himself is in danger. The book makes citing reading and is very difficult to put down. The book originally appeared in paperback that makes it difficult to find in my public library system. After being a success a hard cover version of the book was published with mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman, another one of my favorite authors writing an introduction.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Excellent early Lawrence Block Scudder mystery
20 Dec 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was one of the earlier Scudder books by Lawrence Block and I read it as one of my first. I was most impressed and recommend it highly. Some of his books are better - the older ones are better than the newer efforts. This is early Scudder with just the right amount of alcohol comments and a hard core mystery which will delight the usual Lawrence Block fans.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Bumbling along
30 Aug 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The second in this series of 14 mysteries, soon to be 15, finds our unlikely hero Matthew Scudder further along on his trek to alcoholism, mixed up in unsavory mahem, and trying to get by day to day. It's an interesting case: A blackmailer posthumously hires Matt to determine which of his three pidgeons killed him. So the quasi-detective sets himself up as the blackmailer's replacement to entice the murderer to strike at him so he can solve the case. Matthew, because his mind is becoming benumbed by booze or maybe he just isn't a very good detective, bumbles this case every step of the way, and comes to a less than satisfactory conclusion -- the type of ending only Block has the nerve to create. It's book noir at a higher level. The dialogue is terrific and true, the settings in Manhattan are recorded with exactness, it's a fine tale that kept me reading well into the night. One aspect I especially appreciated, Block didn't seem to feel he needed gratuitous foul language in this second in the series as he did in the first. The book is a great example of why the series is so popular.
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