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...enough to keep inflation at bay. "There's more to do, so what's the point in being a hero and buying bonds at this rate when it still has a way to go," said David Glen, 37, the manager of $6.5 billion in bond funds for Scudder, Stevens & Clark. So after a brief period of euphoria, the bond market tumbled...
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), 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, 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...
Novelist Block does a good, convincing job with Scudder and his puzzle, but comes up flat with the solution, which involves two unrelated coincidences. The two deaths on which the story pivots turn out to be essentially meaningless, and this may be closer to real life than a thriller plot can safely walk...
Novelist Block does a good, convincing job with Scudder and his puzzle, but comes up flat with the solution, which involves two unrelated coincidences. The two deaths on which the story pivots turn out to be essentially meaningless, and this may be closer to real life than a thriller plot can safely walk...