22, WG22, M12, E22 / NG0, F10, MF0, B0, D0, Frz0, C0, NA0

Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

Dieser Band mußte noch ran, danach denke ich ist es erst einmal wieder gut mit der Scudder-Serie. Am besten finde ich hier immer wie TJ seinen ersten Auftritt hat, und Block es schafft aus zwei Fällen einen zu machen, ohne dass es forciert wirkt.
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What got to me some nights, though, was the way nothing changed. People back then killed ach other for every reason and for no reason and they did it with every means at their disposal and all the ingenuity they could bring to bear.
Sometimes it provided a good antidote for the morning paper, with its deadening daily chronicle of contemporary crime. It was easy to read the paper each day and conclude that humanity was infinitely worse than ever, that the world was going to hell and that hell was where we belonged. Then, when I read about men and women killing each other centuries ago for pennies or for love, I could tell myself that we weren't getting worse after all, that we were as good as we'd ever been.
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(Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaugtherhouse, 1992)