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Death Stalks a Gentlemen's Club |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert F. Geary |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,289 Words, 13,093 Characters |
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A LONG LINE OF DEAD MEN
Lawrence Block
New York: William Morrow, 1994
249 pp., $18.95
It must have been around nine o'clock when the old man stood up and tapped his spoon against the bowl of his water glass. Conversations died around him. . . .
Standing as he did, with his angular frame tilted forward, his thin beak of a nose jutting out, his white hair swept straight back and combed down flat, his pale blue eyes magnified by thick lenses, he put Lewis Hildebrand in mind of a figure carved on the prow of a Viking ship. Some idealized bird of prey, scanning the horizon, seeing for miles and miles, years and years. . . .
"I have something to read to you," he announced. "It won't take long. It's a list of names. Thirty names."...
Listening to the old man, hearing...
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...o end his aged mother's misery, tells the physician not to worry about inflicting death because the family comes from a long line of dead men.
This night is a turning point for Scudder, both personally and in terms of his investigation. He is able to accept his mortality, to defy death, and at the end to join the club, willingly, even proudly, ready to take his place in that long line.
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