Hi, Mike.
This year I've read one of the early, pre-AA Scudders, _A
Stab in the Dark_, and one of the latest, _Everybody Dies_. I
found the latter to be uninspiring. _A Stab in the Dark_,
although shorter in length, was much meatier, and I enjoyed
watching Scudder dance with the acknowledgment of his
alcoholism before retreating back into the shadows with a
bottle.
Have you read his Frank Keller short stories, anthologized in
_Hit Man_ and this year's _Hit List_? I finished the first
one last month, and immediately put the latter on reserve at
the library. With the character of Frank Keller, Block has
taken the erstwhile moral ambivalence of Scudder and
magnified it to the 40th degree.
Respectfully,
-- Kim C. "Don't start tryin' to do the right thing, boy-o. You haven't the practice." - Capt. Dudley Smith
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