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Lawrence Block writes shadowy thrillers about a recovering alcoholic named Matthew Scudder who knows a lot about the dark side of New York City, where he does enough private detective work to keep the rent paid on his crummy hotel room. Sometimes Scudder makes a point of saying that it's a nice day and that the sun is shining, but this never seems convincing. He's a night man, with a turned-up raincoat collar...
...Devil Knows You're Dead (Morrow; 316 pages; $20), Scudder lurks about trying to clear a half-mad homeless man of a murder charge. Why would this fellow have shot a well-dressed yuppie in a phone booth? Then, just when Scudder has discovered that the natty corpse had a lot of enemies -- he made his money ratting on tax evaders and drug dealers to the IRS and the DEA -- the homeless man is stabbed to death in prison. What's happening? The murk deepens enough to involve moral ambiguities for Scudder before he works out the answers...
...consequence, Scudder says, "people feelvery connected to what's happening...
...People are curious," says Scudder, who serveson the Design School area's "joint council," anegotiating body of elected union members andappointed administrators. For every department,library or area, a joint council meets regularlythroughout the year. In addition, each group ofapproximately 33 union members elects arepresentative to the union as a whole...
...Scudder says people know her as a unioncontact, and ask her about negotiations when shepasses them in the hallways, as the walks into theoffice in the morning, when she takes her lunchbreak...