Out on the Cutting Edge (Matt Scudder Mystery S )
Author: Lawrence Block
It isn’t called Hell’s Kitchen for nothing – a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and the homeless. For Matt Scudder, it’s a city gone mad, but a city he can’t leave as he’s been hired to find missing would-be actress Paula Hoeldtke…..Read More
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