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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first published mystery in the Matthew Scudder &quot;series&quot; by Lawrence Block.  It is also one of Block's first novels.  Since i have devouring more recent books in this series, I decided to go back to the beginning to see what the early books were like.<br/><br/>This is an OK my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19543970">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Matthew Scudder is an ex New York City cop who makes his living as an off the books private investigator. When a young woman is brutally murdered in her Greenwich Village apartment by her roommate, a young man who subsequently takes his own life, Scudder is retained by the woman's father to learn ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57479119">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SINS OF THE FATHER (Unl. Inv.-Matt Scudder-NYC-Cont) - Ex<br/>Block, Lawrence - 2nd in series<br/><br/>From Fantastic Fiction:  A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48722588">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read alot of genre fiction, but got interested in Block when I heard that he was co-writing a movie with Wong Kar-Wai, and yet that his fiction was the kind of stuff bought in airports rather than reviewed in the Times. I read some short stories and then picked this up, the first in his popu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13408160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read at least five of the Matthew Scudder series, but am now trying to go back and read chronologically those I've missed.<br/><br/>&quot;Sins of the Father&quot; is a great start for the series. Matthew Scudder emerges as a fully formed character, and Lawrence Block shows his tremendous capa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57384181">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good start to the series.  More procedural than hardboiled, but it works as a developing character study of both victim and investigator.  We only get hints of Scudder, but what we do see is intriguing (definitely bodes well for the character as a series creation).<br/><br/>Not a lot of new ground...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76440987">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started re-reading the Matthew Scudder books last year and haven't made a lot of progress, unfortunately. Like al of my favorite mystery novels, Block's books are less concerned with solving a murder than they are showing us the inner workings of the main character. And what a main character. Scud...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4623720">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The edition I read had a foreword by Stephen King in which he extolled the virtues of the &quot;popular novel&quot;, which this fits all the criteria of. It was easy to read, entertaining, and had at least one good character. I think I'll read the next in the series sometime in the next few months]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the first in the Matthew Scudder series and I really liked it.  I have not read many books featuring private investigators, but I really enjoyed this book and can't wait to see the evolution of this character.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer&#8212;a minister's son&#8212;hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.</p>]]>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading this book for the mystery book club. I like it so far: it is an easy and fun read.  It is the first in the Matthew Scudder (private investigator) crime novel series.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a big Scudder fan in the 1990s. I had just started training in substance misuse, and found Block's descriptions of the alcoholic, in denial, relapsing and recovering to be realistic and convincing. I liked the mysteries and the detective work as well, but what brought me back time and again wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55396547">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Murder-suicide..or is it? Scudder searches for answers. Dated by the absence of things high-tech this mystery,however,is as great today as it was in the 70's. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[AKA: Sheldon Lord, Jill Emerson, Paul Kavanaugh, Chip Harrison, Lawrence Block<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first in Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder series and the first book of Block's I have read.  The edition I read had an introduction by Stephen King, which did nothing to excite me about the book.  However, after finishing the novel, I agreed with much of what King had said - especially abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34444308">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I'm going to really like this author, and this series.]]></body>
    
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect dies and NYPD consider the case closed, but Scudder looks into the death for the girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption in a world where children must pay for their parents' sins.]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars. Typical solid Matthew Scudder story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book in The Matt Scudder series is all about the main character who makes the book a compelling read on his own.  An intense,strong PI book.  Shows alot promise for the other books in the series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second in the Matthew Scudder series that I've read. It'll probably be the last. I didn't see any improvement in the protagonist. I'd like for him to have at least a bit of an arc. He starts out a drunk and ends that way. Plus, the plot seems to trudge along.]]></body>
    
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