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Jan 1, 1982 · Eight Million Ways to Die is New York in all of its grimy splendor: murderous, amoral, seething and unsympathetic. Block creates an authentic portrait using his signature slicing prose to recall an early 80's Big Apple plagued by poverty, racial tensions, police corruption and crime.
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Author: Lawrence Block. Series: Matthew Scudder Novels, Book 5. Publication Year: 1982. ASIN: 0380715732. ISBN: 9780380715732. Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also—and she wanted out.
8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia. It was Ashby's final film, and the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen.
Eight Million Ways To Die (Matthew Scudder #5) Published January 1st 2000 by Wheeler Pub Inc Large Print Edition, Paperback, 410 pages
- Lawrence Block
- 1982
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Eight Million Ways to Die. John K. Snyder III and Lawrence Block. IDW, $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-61377-884-5. Snyder’s adaptation of Block’s novel makes for a skillfully realized graphic narrative.
The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade.
