A Candle for the Bag Lady: A Matthew Scudder Story

by Lawrence Block Narrated by Lawrence Block

Overview

Matthew Scudder investigates the brutal murder of a woman known as the "bag lady." A seemingly homeless woman, she turns out to have distributed her substantial wealth in a complex will naming random strangers. Where did the money come from? Why was she living in such reduced circumstances? And why in the world did she choose these beneficiaries-the owner of a local newspaper stand, a neighbor she rarely spoke to, the detective himself-when her real friends and acquaintances got nothing at all? And how is all this linked to her murder?

Editorial Reviews

praise for the author San Diego Union-Tribune

Lawrence Block’s novels are as good as the crime thriller gets.”

praise for the series People

Block relishes backing us into the darkest, most frightening corners of the mind [and] makes it all but impossible to bail out until the terrible, twisted end.”

praise for the series Philadelphia Inquirer

When Lawrence Block is in his Matt Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there’s no degree of difference.”

praise for the series Wall Street Journal

One of the very best writers now working the beat…Block has done something new and remarkable with the private eye novel.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169518207
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2012
Series:	Matthew Scudder Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged

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