Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in the city of New York. Except a young prostitute named Kim -- and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death.

The alcoholic ex-cop turned P.I. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons in a seedy hotel room. Now, finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town -- some quick and brutal... and some agonizingly slow.

With this book, which won the Shamus Award and was short-listed for the Edgar, Lawrence Block elevated the Matthew Scudder series to the top tier of American detective fiction. This special hardcover edition features an afterword by the author. Read Eight Million Ways to Die, the novel that proves Block to be one of the best mystery writers working today.

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die. 25th anniversary edition. With an afterword by the author. William Morrow, ISBN: 0061457965 (January, 2008), 336 p., $19.95

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
Corruption and danger are rife in Lawrence Block's incredible Matt Scudder thriller.
Staying alive is never easy; not for the prostitute who is slashed to ribbons, nor for the pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken down investigator Matt Scudder can find her killer.

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die. A Matt Scudder Mystery. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752837001 (October, 2000), 351 p., £5.99

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also -- and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town -- some quick and brutal... and some agonizingly slow.

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die. A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380715732 (July, 1994), 384 p., $7.50.

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
Scudder is back. Battling the bottle one day at a time. Next to staying sober, staying alive seems easy. But it never is. Not for the prostitute who wanted out and got her beautiful self slashed to ribbons. Not for a pimp named Chance who is betting his life that a broken-down ex-cop can find her murderer. And not for Matthew Scudder - just trying to stay alive in a city that knows nothing better than how to die...

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die. A Matthew Scudder Suspense Thriller. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515072575 (November, 1983), 296 p., $2.95.

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
Matthew Scudder, the streetwise Manhattan private investigator who made his most recent appearance in A Stab in the Dark ("Deft, spare ... sure and precise" - New York Times Book Review), returns to the crime scene in this harrowing tale about a city's lower depths, where the action is as racy as it is sinister. A prostitute wants out of the business, but before she can make a clean exit, she turns up dead, and her pimp - number one suspect - hires the low-keyed but immensely skilled private eye to hunt down the murderer. Lawrence Block has written his finest, most far-reaching novel. He's painted a whole city's portrait in telling the story of one deeply determined man. Matthew Scudder - searching for a killer in a world of sudden death, struggling to stay sober one murderous day at a time, fighting to stay alive in a city with eight million ways to die.

LAWRENCE BLOCK is the author of Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, also published by Arbor House, and most recently, A Stab in the Dark. He is a contributing editor of Writer's Digest and has taught fiction writing at Hofstra University. His acquaintances range across New York's social and geographical lines, including men and women on both sides of the law. At present he lives alone in a railroad flat in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.

Lawrence Block: Eight Million Ways to Die. The New Matthew Scudder Suspense Thriller. Arbor House, ISBN: 0877954054 (August, 1982), 319 p., $13.50.