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  <title><![CDATA[A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder Mysteries (Paperback))]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P align=left&gt;Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended &quot;Icepick Prowler,&quot; freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder Mysteries (Paperback))</original_title>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[STAB IN THE DARK - VG<br/>Block, Lawrence - 4th in series<br/><br/>[From Fantastic Fiction:]  Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended &quot;Icepick Prowler,&quot; freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Sc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78354333">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 08:00:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 20 08:08:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the second or third book published in the Scudder series, and the rawness shows.  It's a fairly short book, and very few of the more interesting recurring characters from Scudder's world are present here.  This is the book where the concept of Alcoholics Anonymous is seriously introduced to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20571324">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very Good; Continuing character: Matt Scudder; ex-cop fights booze while finding out who performed copycat icepick murder of young woman.<br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this a lot.  A quick read adn with a surprisingly amount of character work along with a pretty good mystery.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted a mystery to read on the train and while waiting around at an event for my son... picked this up at the library and it proved to be the perfect choice. I love Block's spare hard-boiled prose, and warmed to the character of troubled ex-cop Scudder. <br/><br/>Picking this book up, I didn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22878071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[AKA: Sheldon Lord, Jill Emerson, Paul Kavanaugh, Chip Harrison, Lawrence Block<br/>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72647533]]></url>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars]]></body>
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    <review id="17711747">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the whole thing coming back from Los Angeles.  I've been a fan of Lawrence Block since I was a kid and happened upon his Bernie Rhodenbarr books at the public library.  Block and Robert B. Parker are my detective reading jams. Now I have to read more of the Scudder books to see his transition t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17711747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scudder is still drinking; he's hired to find out who killed Barbara Ettinger with an icepick.]]></body>
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