Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark (2020)

From the Publisher:
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous... and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark. Matt Scudder #4. LB Productions, ISBN: 9781951939878 (September, 2020), Hardcover, 190 p., $27.99.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark (2012)

From the Publisher:
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous... and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark. A Matthew Scudder Novel. Telemachus Press, ISBN: 9781938135026 (February, 2012), Paperback, 216 p., $14.99, eBook $7.99.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous... and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark. A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380715740 (April, 2002), 304 p., $7.50.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark (UK 1997)

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Eight girls died at the hands of a psychopath armed with a deadly ice-pick and though nine years have passed the killer has not been brought to justice. Matt Scudder - an ex-cop, a bit too fond of bourbon, who does favours for friends when the officials lose interest in difficult criminal investigations - is hired to track the maniac down. But following a trail a decade cold is likely to mean that the killer is either long gone or long dead. Or perhaps just very patiently awaiting an opportunity to make his next stab in the dark.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark. A Matt Scudder Mystery. Pheonix, ISBN: 1857997263 (May, 1997), 272 p., £5.99.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
Investigator Matthew Scudder, Lawrence Block's relentless and charismatic plainclothesman extraordinaire, returns -- on a quest for a psycho-killer no one believes exists.

Scudder, NYPD detective who had left the force after an accident left a child dead in a crossfire, now goes private to take the case of a massmurder victim that he knows bears the marks of another -- unsuspected -- killer.

What begins as a simple distrac-tion from his melancholy slowly evolves into the most far-reaching, and shocking, investigation of Scudder's career -- for reasons he is almost too late to understand.

Here is Lawrence Block's remarkable detective at his most vulnerable and most resourceful, on an assignment that challenges -- and finally redeems -- not only his superior abilities, but his belief in them and himself in the process.

Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark. A Novel of Suspense. Arbor House, ISBN: 0877953406 (January, 1981), 192 p., $10.95.