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      The Sins of the Fathers

      by Lawrence Block
      Published
      Jan 1976
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      304
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      A Matthew Scudder Mystery Book 1

      About This Book

      The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer -- a minister's son -- hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Private Investigator

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