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      Hope to Die

      by Lawrence Block
      Published
      Oct 2001
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      400
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      A Matthew Scudder Mystery Book 18

      About This Book

      The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life.

      There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices, then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started ...

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      Book 18
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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Private Investigator

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