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      A Stab in the Dark

      by Lawrence Block
      Published
      Jan 1978
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      A Matthew Scudder Mystery Book 4

      About This Book

      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.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Private Investigator Thriller

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