Tip #11: Follow Matt Scudder around town

With my recent enjoyment of All The Flowers Are Dying in print and A Drop of the Hard Stuff on audio,  I only have one book left in Lawrence Block's classic Matthew Scudder detective series. If you read crime fiction, you really should dip into these books. They are talky but never tedious, nicely balance plot with Scudder's own interesting life, and feature New York itself is a major character: we see how the city changes over the course of this long series. I really hope Block writes another one or two of these.