NOIRTRASH
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TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE by Lawrence Block
Its the 2nd effort of Blocks Matt Scudder series.
The story: A lowlife creep prevails upon Matt to handle and resolve criminal business after the creep is murdered. Matt's task is to punish the creeps killer once Matt learns the killers identity. There are 3 suspects. Hint: Matt is a hamfisted klutz who fucks the whole show up. At this stage of the series Matt is an alcoholic shit for brains who stays pickled most of the time but I like him less after he joins AA down the road. Alcoholics are drunk assholes and AA members are sober assholes. Police work attracts assholes.
I'm no Matt Scudder fan or Harry Bosch fan or Elvis Cole fan, Ima Philip Marlowe fan. Block is good but no Raymond Chandler. Still, this book is worth the candle. I like the lead female character who is a good girl gone bad. Block exposes how women really/truly cope with the world. She works with she's got and is saddled with vices she'll die with. A real peach with a few soft spots that herald sexual decay down the road.
Its the 2nd effort of Blocks Matt Scudder series.
The story: A lowlife creep prevails upon Matt to handle and resolve criminal business after the creep is murdered. Matt's task is to punish the creeps killer once Matt learns the killers identity. There are 3 suspects. Hint: Matt is a hamfisted klutz who fucks the whole show up. At this stage of the series Matt is an alcoholic shit for brains who stays pickled most of the time but I like him less after he joins AA down the road. Alcoholics are drunk assholes and AA members are sober assholes. Police work attracts assholes.
I'm no Matt Scudder fan or Harry Bosch fan or Elvis Cole fan, Ima Philip Marlowe fan. Block is good but no Raymond Chandler. Still, this book is worth the candle. I like the lead female character who is a good girl gone bad. Block exposes how women really/truly cope with the world. She works with she's got and is saddled with vices she'll die with. A real peach with a few soft spots that herald sexual decay down the road.
